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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Shapes

• NASA has chosen your family to be the first to
  visit a set of planets in a near by Solar System.
  Each planet is a different geometrical shape
  square, rectangle, circle, triangle. What type of
  plants, animals, and objects would you find on
  each planet? What obstacles do you think you
  might have to overcome? At the end of your trip,
  you must decide whether you would like to stay on
  one of the planets or return to planet Earth.

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Thats a Different Matter

• Your teachers friend Dr. Snuff, a scientist, has
  discovered a new substance and is bringing it to
  class for you to assist him in determining what
  the substance is. It is hard when it is in a
  bowl, but when you try to hold it in your hand it
  becomes soft and runny. What could this possibly
  be? Is it a solid, a liquid, or a gas or is it
  something else? How will we find out?

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Questions???

• Questions Answers
• For further assistance please contact a member of
  your LoTi Team
• Sharon L. Thayer
• Wanda Calhoun
• Linda Downs