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How do you get students to ask questions?
Give the students something to wonder and inquire about.
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What is spin the wheel?
An activity requiring students to rotate a circular object and craft a question related to a lesson, piece of art, poem or math problem.
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What is "Question Focus"?
A step in the QFT process in which teachers design a prompt, or a Q-Focus such as an provocative image, an image paired with a phrase, a short video or an object.
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What is Starbucks, Disney, and NASA?
The 3 organizations in which the author ran a modified version of the QFT.
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What is a provocation or stimulus?
It could be an interesting object, a picture, a wrapped box, or a statement posted on the wall or written on the blackboard.
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What is a question journal?
A method where by students write down questions that are interesting to them and circle those of most interest to them.
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What is "students produce questions" or the "question generation stage"?
A step in the QFT in which students are given a brief time limit to generate a list of questions based on the Q-Focus.
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What is 18 pieces?
The amount of crab rangoon pieces that Jake ordered on Christmas Day for his family.
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What is wonder?
THIS IS A DAILY DOUBLE!!!!! One of the basic elements of curiosity-not knowing, at least temporarily.
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What is the Question Game?
A game where by a die is rolled that has questions on it, and the students answer or ask a question.
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What are the Rules for Producing Questions?
THIS IS A DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
These encourage students to go for volume, keep things moving, remove judgement, produce recognition and respect for all questions, and instill discipline in the process. |
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What the the two different types of curiosity?
Epistemic and diversive
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What is Questions in a Jar?
An activity where by question stems are extracted from a container and students pull out a stem to explore a topic in more depth.
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What is "Question Storming"?
This strategy for formulating an abundance of questions encourages participants to enter a no judgement zone and think of as many questions as possible during a given time frame.
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What is "See Think Wonder"?
An inquiry-based strategy or exercise that Project Zero researcher Jessica Ross describes as the "gateway drug" to making questioning visible.
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What is the "I am a Scientist Book of Questions"?
An observation activity in which a student thinks about everything around them and chooses one thing and asks one single question. The student does this about 100 different things and leaves blank lines and puts the papers together.
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Who are the Right Question Institute's co-directors, and designers of the QFT?
Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana
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