Question Formulation Technique QFT By Ms Valdivia Roosevelt
Question Formulation Technique (QFT) By: Ms. Valdivia Roosevelt Elementary School San Leandro Unified School District
Phenomenon Observe the experiment that Ms. Valdivia is about to conduct. No Talking … just and listen.
Just kidding! For now!! Let’s formulate questions first!
(ON YOUR OWN ) Produce your questions Four essential rules for producing your own questions: 1. Ask as many questions as you can. 2. Do NOT STOP to discuss, judge or answer the questions. 3. Write down every question EXACTLY as it is stated. Change any statement into a question.
(With Partner) Improving your questions: Investigable or not, that is the question? ➢ Categorize your questions as INVESTIGABLE or NON-INVESTIGABLE ➢ Investigable Questions should be a question you are able to: ★ Not know the answer to. ★ Can lead to a plan (like an experiment) that will answer the question. ★ Can be answered with available materials (from home or at school). ★ Can be answered in a reasonable amount of time. ➢ Write INV next to investigable questions. ➢ Cross out NON-INVESTIGABLE questions or rewrite them so they can be investigated.
(With Partner) Improving your questions: or Open-Ended Categorize your questions as CLOSED or OPEN-ENDED: CLOSED-ENDED Questions Can be answered with “yes” or “no” or with one word. OPEN-ENDED Questions Require an explanation and cannot be answered with “yes” or “no” or with one word. Directions: Find Closed-Ended questions and mark them with a “c. ” The other questions must be openended, so mark them with an “o. ”
Science Talk: Partner Discussion ➢ Turn to your partner and take turns discussing the following questions: ○ What are the plus and minuses of possibly using your closedended questions to conduct an experiment? ○ What are the plus and minuses of possibly using your openended questions to conduct an experiment? ➢ Take a minute or two to change any open-ended questions to closed-ended questions or vice versa.
Prioritize Your Questions ➢ Choose your THREE most important questions. Circle them. ➢ Number your 3 questions from most important #1 to least important #3. ➢ Tell me why you chose these 3 as your most important questions.
➢ Take one of the poster sheets In your tables. . . and write down the questions EXACTLY as written from each student in your table. ➢ Write down the initials of each student after their questions. ➢ Write down everyone’s #1 first, then everyone’s #2, and if there is time, everyone’s #3. ➢ When done, choose one person to read all question in the poster to the rest of the class.
We are one step closer to conducting our very own experiments!!! Stay tuned!
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