1. Higher Level Questions

2. Importance
of higher level
questions
Understand material at a deeper level Provides topics to discuss and think about Is retained in memory longer

3. Lower level
questions
Usually are who, what, when, where questions
Ask you to complete, count, match, name, define, observe, recite, describe, list, identify, recall
Can be looked up

4. Higher level
questions
why questions
ask you to imagine, plan, judge, predict, invent, speculate
You need to think to answer the question

5. Practice Name the elements that make up water.
What is the definition of a rectangle?
Imagine you were in the main character’s position. How would you act?
Recite the Preamble to the Constitution.
What happened to the litmus paper when inserted in the liquid?
Create an invention that uses at least three types of simple machines.

6. Practice continued Analyze the character’s intention in the scene.
Arrange the following numbers in order from smallest to largest…
Make a plan to complete your science fair project

7. Higher level questions
Cinderella
Lower level questions
Higher level questions