Developing+Good+Questions

This section of the wiki is to help you and your students develop good open-ended questions to ask Rusty. We would like that the questions are open-ended, so the answer should never be yes or no. We want this to be a learning experience for the kids as well, so the answers should not be something that students can find out on their own. This is an awesome opportunity for students to ask an expert about climate and weather concepts. Make sure your students practice and understand how to frame the questions, this is not the time for storytelling.

Suggestions

 * Setting up a Question**
 * ** In the book... **
 * ** In this class we studied... **
 * ** In lab we did this experiment... **
 * ** Yesterday on the weather cast... **


 * ~  ||||||~ **Question Starters** ||~   ||
 * ||< **Okay**
 * Did you ever...
 * Do you know why...
 * Have you ever...
 * Do you...
 * Will you...
 * Would you ever...
 * Can you... ||||  ||< **Great**
 * Why do you think...
 * Describe...
 * Would you explain...
 * Where did you...
 * Where do you...
 * How many...
 * What are...
 * How would you...
 * What was your reaction... ||||  ||

-- Describe how you became a weatherman? -- What do you think is the deadliest tornado? -- Describe the worst Hurricane you've seen? -- Is it okay to shower during a Thunderstorm?
 * Question Suggestions-**


 * Suggestion - Lesson for Developing Questions**


 * Show Examples.** As a teacher, you could write some questions and show them to the students so they can see how it should be done.


 * Place the students in Pairs and** encourage them to select their best four questions. Each pair should select only four questions that will be presented to class.


 * Conduct a round robin elimination process**. When your students have selected their best four questions, ask each group to read their questions out loud to the class. Eliminate duplicate questions among the groups.


 * Revise the questions.** When the elimination process is completed, each student should have at least one unique question to ask the interview. It is okay if the question has been rewritten to include aspects of duplicates that were eliminated.


 * Preparing for the Videoconference.** Conduct a practice session. Have each student stand and read his or her question aloud in a confident manner. This is very important as it helps students learn to interact and ask questions to experts. We also encourage having students ask questions in groups of two or three. This allows more students to be on camera and reduces possible stage fright.

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