Step 1: Pose Real Questions
Food For Thought: Inquiry Based Learning
“The meaning of ‘knowing’ has shifted from being able to remember and repeat information to being able to find and use it.”
(National Research Council, 2007)
Step one: Pose real questions
Your first task as part of your inquiry based project is to create questions. These will form the basis of your project. Questions must not be closed questions (EG: questions that only have a yes/ no type answer or a single word response). Instead, questions should be open- ended and encourage research and further exploration (EG: Who, what, where, when, why, how type questions can usually be turned into open- ended questions).
To create ‘real’ questions, you need to brainstorm the following information within your group:
1. What do I want to know about the topic? (minimum of 9 open- ended questions)
2. What do I already know about the topic?
3. Is there anything that I think that I know that might not be entirely correct? (These are your assumptions about the topic)
4. Predict an answer or response to your group’s topic
This information needs to be uploaded to your website page.
Examples: http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-open-ended-and-closed-ended-questions.html
“The meaning of ‘knowing’ has shifted from being able to remember and repeat information to being able to find and use it.”
(National Research Council, 2007)
Step one: Pose real questions
Your first task as part of your inquiry based project is to create questions. These will form the basis of your project. Questions must not be closed questions (EG: questions that only have a yes/ no type answer or a single word response). Instead, questions should be open- ended and encourage research and further exploration (EG: Who, what, where, when, why, how type questions can usually be turned into open- ended questions).
To create ‘real’ questions, you need to brainstorm the following information within your group:
1. What do I want to know about the topic? (minimum of 9 open- ended questions)
2. What do I already know about the topic?
3. Is there anything that I think that I know that might not be entirely correct? (These are your assumptions about the topic)
4. Predict an answer or response to your group’s topic
This information needs to be uploaded to your website page.
Examples: http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-open-ended-and-closed-ended-questions.html