Driving Question

DRIVING QUESTION

The driving question (DQ) provides the purpose of the project-based learning (PBL) for students and teachers. The Driving Question should be clear, provocative, open-ended, challenging and linked to the core of what teachers and students want to learn.

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When crafting a Driving Question consider:

What learning will occur?
Is the question authentic?
Where is student voice in this question?
What are the levels of student assessment or understanding.
Can the learning be transferred to new contexts?
Does the question provide opportunities for challenge and rigour?

EXAMPLES OF DRIVING QUESTIONS

- How can we demystify vaccines in order to help people make informed decisions about their health?
- How can we use data to reduce our families impact on the environment?
- How can we create a financial plan for a family?
- How can observing the natural world help us find solutions to human problems?
- How can we teach people in our community about the weather?
- How do I know if a car is a good deal?
- What 'masks' do we wear when we go about our daily lives?
- How can humans safely explore Mars?
- How can we improve our local community parkland so that more people use it?
- How can we use measurement to create an innovative house design that maximises a small space?
- How can we use time to assist us in organising a student exchange program?
- How can we take action to make a change in our community?
- How can we decrease our carbon footprint at our school?
- How can we make our kitchen garden financially sustainable?
- What makes a community hero?
- How can we support younger students through the transition to high school?
- How can we set and achieve personal goals that help us thrive?
- Can the decrease in bee population be remediated?
- How can we make stories come alive for our audience?
- How do we, as web content editors, develop a quality controlled and age appropriate for our school's fan fiction writers?
- How can we create an effective learning program to teach senior citizens how to use an iPad?
- How can we explain to Year 1 students why they don't fall off their skateboards so that they can apply this understanding to other aspects of life?
- How can we help new friends get to know our community?
- When is violence justified?
- How can we redesign a public space to make it more environmentally sustainable?
- How can we take care of the environment and inspire others to help us?
- Should developed countries provide insight on or dictate the decisions of developing countries?
- When do we grow up?
- How can we change the law to make our society better for everyone?
- How can we as historians, uncover and share stories about our community?
- Who has power and how do they get it?
- How can our school best support our overall health and wellness?
- How does music move you?
- What is YOUR song?
- What does musical growth look like?

FOR MORE IDEAS SEE 400 Amazing Essential Inquiry Questions

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