Activity
Constitutional Rights Foundation

The Election of 1912

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
The Election of 1912: an election with four competitive opponents. Pupils get to know the candidates with informative reading passages that provide context to the election. Then, the class engages in a debate and answers questions as one...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Asking Questions

For Students 1st - 3rd
Intended for English language learners, this resource provides a list of 16 basic questions. Classmates can get to know a little bit more about each other as they polish their speaking skills! Are there any questions you would add to...
Lesson Plan
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Curated OER

Who Works at Our School?

For Teachers K - 8th
Young interviewers will learn more about the school staff by asking them questions and creating a bulletin board display. They will learn how to make thoughtful interview questions, conduct professional interviews, and organize...
Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Continued Close Reading of Nasreen's Secret School: Discussions of Questions and Evidence

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders answer text-dependent questions of the story Nasreen's Secret School both independently and then collaboratively through using the carousel of questions strategy. This plan is the seventh instructional activity in a...
Worksheet
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Humanities Texas

Primary Source Worksheet: John T. McCutcheon, “A Wise Economist Asks a Question”

For Students 8th - 11th
No joke! Kids learn how to read political cartoons using McCutcheon's drawing as a starting point and then progressing to other images found online.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Using the Question Matrix

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars analyze and develop questions about a text. In this asking questions lesson, students read an article and analyze the information within the text. Young scholars then form and answer questions about the text.
Activity
Curated OER

Three Questions

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
In this questions learning exercise, students get into a group and ask each other questions provided about themselves and then share the answers with the class. Students ask 3 questions.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Ask A Question Day

For Students 5th - 10th
In this Ask A Question Day worksheet, students complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling, sequencing, scrambled sentences, writing questions, survey, and...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Is This A ...

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this asking and answering questions worksheet, learners examine 7 pictures that depict common objects. Students read the question next to the picture and answer it. Example: Is this a cat? (No, it is a snake.)
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Parrot in the Oven: Request Strategy

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Victor Martinez's Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida is used in an activity that models how to develop questions to aid in comprehension of a text.
Worksheet
Study Champs

Punctuation

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Practice punctuation with a quick exercise. Class members fill in either a period or a question mark at the end of each of 14 sentences. A brief explanation of when to use a period versus a question mark is included.
Worksheet
Curated OER

What do you have to do?

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this writing sentences activity, students answer questions that ask them what they have to do at certain times of day or year. Students write 5 sentences.
Worksheet
Worksheet Web

Interrogatives and Auxiliary Verbs

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Interrogatives—who, what, where, when, why, and how—are the focus of a grammar worksheet that reinforces writing questions and using auxiliary verbs. 
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Flipped: Request Strategy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Break your class into groups and have them read certain passages from the text Flipped (included here). After every two paragraphs, the groups stop to answer the questions included. Which questions provided are right there questions?...
Activity
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Gorongosa: Scientific Inquiry and Data Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How does the scientific process begin? Introduce ecology scholars to scientific inquiry through an insightful, data-driven lesson. Partners examine data from an ongoing research study to determine the questions it answers. The resource...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Are You Ready, Sam?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
For this comprehension worksheet, young scholars read a short story and then answer three short answer questions regarding the meaning of the short story as well as relating the story to their own lives.
Assessment
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Curated OER

Performance-Based Assessment Practice Test (Grade 6 ELA/Literacy)

For Students 6th Standards
Keep an eye on the growth of your sixth graders' reading and writing skills with the help of this practice Common Core assessment. Working their way through the six included fiction and nonfiction reading passages, learners answer a...
AP Test Prep
College Board

2000 AP® Environmental Science Free-Response Questions

For Students 10th - 12th
Practice makes perfect! A released AP® exam gives scholars practice with the high level of expectations of their exams. The exam consists of four questions from 2000. Questions ask about endangered species, recycling, alternative fuels,...
Lesson Plan
Newseum

Quick Skim or Deep Dive? Picking the Right Search Strategy

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
To search online to find answers to some questions requires only a quick skim, while others demand deep research. Scholars engage in a lesson that teaches them the difference and how to craft questions that produce the best online search...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

My Antonia: Cubing Strategy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What is love? Why is it important? Explore this concept with an interactive activity that brings together Bloom's taxonomy and Willa Cather's My Antonia. After completing the novel, pupils toss a Bloom's cube and then answer the...
AP Test Prep
College Board

2000 AP® Statistics Free-Response Questions

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
A little communication goes a long way. Free-response questions from the 2000 AP® Statistics exam require pupils to communicate their results—not just perform calculations. The questions ask individuals to explain, discuss, and interpret...
Lesson Plan
Newseum

Civil Rights: Knowns and Unknowns

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Class members generate a list of research questions to review the civil rights movement and determine what scholars still need to learn. Groups then select a different compelling question, create a hypothesis and find evidence to support...
Unit Plan
Tell City Schools

The Cay

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Support your instruction of The Cay by Theodore Taylor with this extensive unit of materials. Provided here are prereading activities, worksheets and discussion questions for the entire book, and reading quizzes that you can use to check...
Interactive
Mr. Nussbaum

Maryland Colony

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Practice reading comprehension skills with an interactive all about the Maryland Colony. Scholars read a short informational text and then answer 10 questions.