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Asking Essential Questions Activity How to turn your topic into a question

The Right Question Technique by Dan Rothstein & Luz Santana

Essential Question Process Choose a question focus Produce questions Look at closed vs open-ended questions Flip questions Prioritize questions Select your essential question

Step 1: Choose your Question Focus -With your partner, pick a topic from one of your subject areas that you are currently learning in. For example: The solar system is part of the Milky Way, which is one of billions of galaxies. (Grade 9 Science) Another example: The Pythagorean Theorem is used to establish the lengths of sides of triangles.

2 minutes to choose your focus

Step 2: Ask and Share Questions -Ask and list as many questions as possible about your focus area. Ex. What is a galaxy? How can we measure a galaxy? -List questions as they were posed, don’t stop to judge, edit or revise questions! -Flip any statements into questions

5 minutes to gather questions

Step 3: Closed vs Open Questions Open-Ended vs. Closed-Ended Questions

Open-Ended Questions: Encourages more explanation and deeper thinking Open-Ended Questions: Encourages more explanation and deeper thinking. Which one, what if, how, should, why. Ex: Who was impacted most negatively when BC joined confederation? Close-Ended Questions: Can be answered with a yes or no, or a simple one word response. Ex: When did BC join confederation?

3 minutes to categorize questions

Open-Ended to Closed-Ended Step 4: Flip Questions Open-Ended to Closed-Ended

5 minutes to flip questions

Step 5: Prioritize Questions Which questions will lead you towards deep learning and critical thinking?

3 minutes to prioritize questions

Step 6: Select your essential question

Reflect

Reflection: Going through this process will help you discover an area of specific interest that you can then “dive into”. The goal is for you to come up with a question that is MEANINGFUL for your interests. How does the idea of coming up with your own questions to answer make you feel?

Here is the question that I came up with using this process for our story telling unit: How can the perspective a story is told in change the interpretation of that same story? With your partner, discuss ways you could try to answer the question.