Questioning+and+posing+problems

Questioning and posing problems

Do you know that questions vary in complexity? Can you use questions as a strategy to search and find solutions? Can you use questions in science to pose problems that can be solved experimentally?

The final culminating individual project we each have to work on requires us to pick a topic of our choice and to follow up on an experiment. We can either come up with a research question that is an experimental investigation, or a non experimental investigation where we research an investigation that has already been conducted. I came up with the research question: What is the impact of changing the temperature of Iron and Copper electrode solutions on the speed of the current of the battery? What triggered me to come up with this question consisted of three parts: 1) Our previous unit on Kinetic energy, and how temperature affects it 2) Our recent unit on battery, and our dissection of a battery in class 3) My everyday knowledge that batteries last longer if you freeze it.

I came up with my research question with the curiosity to find out for myself whether the myth that by putting a battery in a freezer, it will last longer. I found that the speed of the current of the battery (A) of the colder electrode solutions had a lower number of Amp. This suggests that the slower the current of the battery, the more time it would take to use up the energy within a battery, thus proving the myth to be true. By conducting my individual experiment, I was able to answer my own question, finding the appropriate solution that I looked for.

//The following is an image of a voltaic cell- (The one used in my culminating project experiment)//