Make them

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Make them
Skinny?
Are your questions too...
FAT!

• Formulate questions that are interesting!
• Apply Jamie McKenzies
• Prime Questions.

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Skinny?
(A skinny question has a really short, quick
answer.)
FAT!
Fat questions have long, complicated answers.
They are fun to research and discuss. We might
not agree on the answers!
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The Research Process at HKIS
Explore...
Plan...
Do...
Share...
Review!
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The Research Process at HKIS
Focused Q 1 (FAT!)
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Focused Q2 (FAT!)
Q???
Explore...
Plan...
Do...
Share...
Review!
Q???
Focused Q4 (FAT!)
Focused Q3 (FAT!)
Q???
Which steps involve asking questions?
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Great Questions

• Who?
• What?
• When?
• Where?
• Why?
• How?
• Which?

Photo Source http//fno.org/JM/resume.html
Why?
Jamie McKenzies 3 Prime Questions
How?
Which?
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Jamie McKenzies 3 Prime Questions
--for INTERESTING researching!!! And COOL book
discussions!
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Geography Questions

• Why do most people live near water?
• Which part of this place would be good to live?
• How might the people here find food and shelter
  to survive?
• Which place would I rather live-- my home or
  here?

Source Mark L. Hessenflow at http//www.hknot.co
m/gallery/ba.html
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Ask some fat questions!

• How would a typhoon affect this place?
• Why do tourists go here?
• Which place is the best to visit?
• How does closeness to the equator affect life
  here?

Source http//www.robinsonadventure.com/caribien
_map.jpg
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Ask some fat questions!(Remember to try the
Prime Questions-- which, how and why!)
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Ask some fat questions!(Remember to try the
Prime Questions-- which, how and why!)
Source http//calgoncarbon.h2web.com/bulletins/L
andfill_Leacha_ent_English.htm
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Ask some fat questions!(Remember to try the
Prime Questions-- which, how and why!)
Which supplies do we need?
How are people cared for?
Source National Archives http//www.archives.g
ov/research/civil-war/photos/
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Ask some fat questions!(Remember to try the
Prime Questions-- which, how and why!)
How should a person lead?
Why was I chosen?
Which strategy will help us win?
Source National Archives http//www.archives.g
ov/research/civil-war/photos/
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Ask some fat questions!Remember to try the Prime
Questions-- which, how and why!)
Which supplies are needed most?
How can we get there?
Why should I help this sides army?
Source National Archives http//www.archives.g
ov/research/civil-war/photos/
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Ask some fat questions!Remember to try the
Prime Questions-- which, how and why!)
Why cant we stay?
How will we survive?
Which animals will they take?
Source National Archives http//www.archives.g
ov/research/civil-war/photos/
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Ask some fat questions!Remember to try the
Prime Questions-- which, how and why!)
Why me?
Source National Archives http//www.archives.g
ov/research/civil-war/photos/
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Questions
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are the answer!
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Reading is Thinking! ... And Questioning!
What might happen next?
Did I understand that? Do I need to re-read?
Can I make a connection?
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Literature Circles are Questioning Circles!
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• Hand signals in Literature Circles
• 1 finger means
• I can answer that great question-- call on me
  next!
• Thumbs up means
• I have a new question!

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Literature Circles Tips Roles and
Reflection (on library Web site)
Top 3 Levels of Blooms Taxonomy
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Are the boys pulling as hard as we girls are?
Did I eat enough breakfast?
Is this strategy working?
What if we...
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Questions
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are the answer!
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Skinny or Fat?

• A lesson prepared by Margaret Carpenter
• for Hong Kong International School