Wednesday, January 23, 2019
The Fortune Fish
In class, our professor gave us this fish in a little package. The instructions were to take it out and put it in our hand. Then, however our fish moved told us our fortune. My fish curled up on me (so I'm passionate), but the underlying question is why did it do this?! That is what we were to set out to find!
In small groups, we thought about why the fish did what it did. First, someone thought it was due to moisture on our hands. To test this, I poured a puddle of water on the desk and put the fish in it. The fish shriveled and basically "died." So, maybe it wasn't just any kind of moisture? After, putting the fish in my hand and testing it on others, I made the conclusion that the paper of the fish reacted with the oils in our hands. Some people have more oils on their hands which is why the fish shrivels up more and others have little which is why the fish can appear to be dead.
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I love that you kept going no matter what happened to your fish. You were able to continue to draw conclusions.
ReplyDeleteNice work on trying new things with your fish! I like that you tried multiple things with your fish to gather more evidence to support your ideas!
ReplyDeleteLynnae, I like the ideas you came up with in trying to figure out why this crazy fish did what it did. At first, I thought it had to do with the temperature of our hand, since that is something that can vary widely from person to person.
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ReplyDeleteLynnae, that would be an interesting theory to investigation and test more in depth. I also think it is interesting that it reacted so much to water. I am curious if you did any tests to see how it reacted to different temperatures of hands?
ReplyDeleteLynnae, I also came to the conclusion that moisture may be causing the fish to curl up. I came across this conclusion on accident, as I placed my fish on a counter that had recently been wiped off with a wet rag. Did you try anything else with moisture to test your theory?
ReplyDeleteGreat post, Lynnae! Interesting theory on how to figure out how much moisture impacted the fish. I definitely agree with you that it has to do with the moisture/oil on our hands that reacts with the material the fish is made out of. In my post, I also wondered if it matters what the temperature the person's hand is as well? So many factors can play into why the fish does what it does.
ReplyDeleteMy fishy fortune came out passionate at first too! I was so excited than I saw that a lot of people were getting it so I became skeptical of the fortune very soon. I wonder how the idea of moisture and oils came up in your small group discussion? Because my group came up with the same thing. My fortune fishy experiment sadly had the same outcome as yours.
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