Home › Forums › Inquiry and resource design › Year 12 (Grade 11) Interrobang!? Inquiry Course @ Blanchelande College › Reply To: Year 12 (Grade 11) Interrobang!? Inquiry Course @ Blanchelande College
Session 2: No such thing as a silly question?
You can download the presentation I used for this session here.
Asking good inquiry questions is hard! Students will often start with easy factual questions (with copy and paste answers) and need to be encouraged to broaden these out into more debatable questions. In this case this was a very short inquiry, which for some would lead to an EPQ, so the idea was to help every student to understand the difference between questions with easy factual answers and more complex and interesting questions and to encourage them to start asking the latter. There was no expectation that they would reach ‘answers’ by the end of the inquiry, but the hope was that their curiosity would be stimulated to want to investigate further.
For homework they needed to come up with a list of questions with easy factual answers and a list that were more matters of opinion relating to their topic, choose a question they were interested in and continue their investigation (using an Investigative Journal).
Focus skills for this session: