How can I improve the quality of students' questions?

Allow them to work with you and each other to form strong driving questions. Students will learn a lot through collaboration and competition with each other to produce the best questions.

Questioning in Inquire

Lead students through the lessons and activities in Inquire Chapter 17: Questioning. This chapter helps students move their questions ever deeper into Bloom's Taxonomy. The chapter also helps students generate the following kinds of questions:

• Creative questions: Why do we call it Germany instead of Deutschland?
• Deep questions: What good was the Cold War?
• Sensory questions: What's the best word to describe the texture of a pear?
• Thought questions: If Saturday were a place, what would it look like?
• Historical questions: Why do people want to build empires?
• Future questions: What will my town look like in twenty years?
• Global questions: Why does over half of the U.S. population live by coasts?
• Metaphorical questions: How is a cell like the solar system?
• SCAMPER questions: How can I get two or more results from this system?
• Socratic questions: What are we assuming in this argument?

For even more great questions, check out the inside back cover of Inquire.