Knowledge/Skill Building
🧠 From Wonderings to Investigable Questions
Content Expertise
Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
Submission Required
The teacher models how to transform broad curiosity ("How do animals survive?") into focused comparative questions ("How do the insulation adaptations of the Arctic fox and Sierra Nevada red fox differ in response to temperature?"). Students analyze sample strong and weak questions using a checklist aligned to question quality criteria. Together, the class identifies features of investigable comparative questions and drafts a question template in notebooks.
Plan day
Day 1
Duration
10 min
Grouping
Whole Class
Steps
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