Inquiry-based activities engage and motivate student learning. A well-planned inquiry task creates wonderment and generates student questions. In this activity, you will examine teacher-generated tasks to determine the level of wonderment and inquiry each task offers.
Directions
Arrange the Task Cards in order, with the task that promotes the largest variety of student questions on top.
Share your rankings and discuss similarities and differences.
Select one lower-ranked task. Revise it so students will be more likely to generate a variety of questions.
Thinking back to the authentic learning checklist from the last session, how might you make the task more authentic?
Would any of the ideas you identified for sparking inquiry fit for this task?
As tasks are made more open, what roles do student curiosity and questioning play?
How might the DTI model be useful in facilitating this task with students?
Which types of tasks or problems are suited for the DTI model?
Reflection
What is one key idea from this analysis you might apply in the development of your own inquiry tasks?
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