Thursday, June 11, 2009

Prompt Questions

Prompt questions for students

1. Does your question start with a how or a why (not a what?) Yes, How are bicycles more convenient for travel than skateboards, if they even are?

2. Look at Bloom’s taxonomy: which level do you think you will need to reach to complete your inquiry? Level 4

a. Why? The question is a matter of opinion, so analysis will play a huge role, instead of physical evidence.

b. Which level do you think you will work at for most of the time? I think I will look at Understanding and Analysis.

c. If your inquiry only requires you to increase your Knowledge of your area, how could you change the question to allow you to move beyond just finding information? I could interview people about their opinions

3. What sources will you need to use to complete your inquiry properly? I will interview people who skateboard and ride bicycles.

a. What primary sources will you use? I will ask people, and research on the internet.

b. If your inquiry does not give you the chance to use any primary sources, how could you change it so that it does? I will change it so that it is: How are bicycles more convenient for travel than skateboards, in people’s opinions.

4. What action could you take as a result of the inquiry.

a. Will it lead to possible changes in your life or the lives of others? If I ever buy a bicycle or skateboard, this will help me decide

b. What changes might it lead to? There wouldn’t be many…

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Learning Journal Guide

Your journal is the ongoing record of all the work you do throughout you inquiry. You should be writing reflections that comment on the process and the progress that you are making as an individual and as a team.

Each entry in your journal should include the following:

1. Description of what happened at the mentor meeting (if you had one that day)

2. Record goals/objectives for the upcoming week

3. Any idea/action carried out

4. Reflection on what you have done this week

Use the following as a guide for writing your reflections:

- What did you do?

- What did you think?

- What didn't you do?... and what could or should you have done?

- What decisions did you make as a group?

- What did yo decide to change and what are the reasons for making the change?

- Were there any problems? How did you deal with them? What did you learn about yourself? Which skills did you use well? (communication, social, thinking, research, self management?)

- What made you happy, annoyed, frustrated, angry, nervous disappointed, proud...?

- Where are you going next?

Adapted from sample supplied by International School of Geneva, Campus des nations - Pregny, Switzerland