Three teachers describe how they used the Question Formulation Technique (QFT) in their classrooms. One teacher used it to teach a fall unit on cranberries, another teacher used this technique in a gingerbread holiday unit, and lastly, a...

At the end of this tutorial, the learner will be able to ask appropriate and effective questions to better understand a communication or situation. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Asking Clarifying Questions."

Explanation of several types of questions, and suggestions for helping students use good questioning techniques in inquiry-based learning. SL.9-10.1c Active Partic

A blog entry where a teacher discusses how to guide students in learning how to ask the right questions. Includes a video of Noam Chomsky talking about the purpose of education, and a framework listing four steps students can follow in...

An article at From Now On about how to help students do better research by changing the focus of research assignments and teaching students to ask essential questions. Some suggestions include using mind mapping, and using Inspiration to...

This lesson is a distance learning collaborative project involving another school. Each school will do research on the other school's state and be able to answer questions about that state posed by the other school. Students learn not...

Was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo a fair compromise to end the Mexican-American War? Students will dissect sections of the treaty to summarize and formulate a conclusion to that question.

"Will you please let me know if I am free?" wrote Annie Davis. Annie Davis was a slave who wrote this letter to President Lincoln 20 months after the Emancipation Proclamation. To understand her confusion, examine the following documents...

The goal of this task is to examine sums and products of rational and irrational numbers. One important property of rational numbers is that their decimals always terminate or repeat: using a slightly different formulation, a rational...