Engaging Questions

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Engaging Questions

• Created by FISD LoTi Team

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• How can we facilitate positive interactions with
  parents?
• How can we ensure there are positive interactions
  between parents and teachers?

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Defining Engaging Questions
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• Engaging Questions bring students beyond basic
  fact-gathering and requires them to solve a
  problem or make a decision.
• Engaging Questions challenge students to think at
  the highest levels of Bloom's Taxonomy by
  requiring critical evaluation and reflection.

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• Engaging Questions spark curiosity and sense of
  wonder.
• Answers to Engaging Questions cannot be found.
  They must be invented.
• Students must construct their own answers and
  make their own meaning from the information they
  have gathered. They create insight.

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• Engaging Questions usually lend themselves well
  to multidisciplinary investigations.

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Good Examples
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Ancient American Empires

• The "Ingenue", a time machine, lands in your
  backyard. You and your team are taken aboard and
  Captain Chronus gives you your choice of
  traveling to one of the three "Ancient American
  Empires" for a one-year visit. Which of the three
  ancient empires would you prefer visiting for a
  year? Be prepared to defend your choice, based on
  the information your team gathers about each
  empire.

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Which Spice?

• You are a poor Italian trader and have heard that
  there is great money to be made in selling
  spices. You don't know much about spices but have
  decided to join with another trader to do some
  research to figure out which spice would be the
  most profitable to harvest and sell.

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1620 Living

• You and your team are a group of children living
  in either the Jamestown or Plymouth Colony. After
  investigating living conditions in both colonies,
  decide where you would have preferred living, in
  the year 1620.

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Oregon Wagon Trail

• You are a pioneer just starting out on the Oregon
  Wagon Trail. You need to decide what you will
  take with you in order to survive the trip, and
  to set up a new home in the Oregon Territory.
  Brainstorm, with your team, what you need to find
  out about living conditions on the Trail. After
  learning about the living conditions, write a
  list of items you will take with you, and explain
  why you will need each item.

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Suppose the earth had no moon. What if the
South had won the Civil War? What does this
mean? What might it mean if certain conditions
and circumstances changed? How could I take
this farther?
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Questions???

• Questions Answers
• For further assistance please contact a member of
  your LoTi Team
• Valerie Steele -Rhonda Bourland
• John Hineman - Dianna Buchanan
• Lisa Tieken -Carole Atkines
• Joe LeBouff -Leslie Thomas

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Resources

• http//www.fno.org/nov97/toolkit2.html