What is the question?

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Critical-thinking skills: Formulate questions

While scientific inquiry may begin with wonder, scientific questions need to be a little more focused than speculation. As scientists, we have to make questions that can be tested in some way such that we can find an answer or explanation for what we observe. Often a problem in nature will turn out to be much more complicated than it seems at first, and we will only be able to answer a big question by first identifying a number of smaller questions and finding the answers to those.

SEE-THINK-WONDER

To help us to think creatively and makeup questions, we can use techniques like ’See-Think-Wonder’.

Individually, watch these videos. BUT the first time, watch with the volume MUTED (turned down).

• www.youtube.com/watch?v:BleCJJAKkgw

• www.youtube.cOm/watch?v-.:XJSngTaRAQ

• www.teiegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/ 10899919/Hubble-captures-star-explosion-overfour-years.htmi

• www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MLWHGanfl

For each video, make notes using these guiding questions:

• What do you see?

• What do you think?

• What does it make you wonder?

Now watch the videos again with the volume on so that you can hear the science behind the weirdness!