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Essential Questions
Essential Questions
Essential questions help you focus your research so that you can make sense of the information that you find.
Essential questions help you focus your research so that you can make sense of the information that you find.
Be research-able
Be complex
Connect a main topic to a sub topic.
Allow you to learn something new.
Have a best answer rather than an obvious correct answer.
Can't be answered with a simple Google search
Goldilocks EQs:
Not be too broad or too narrow
Not too hard or too easy
Not be too disturbing
EQs usually start with certain question word that serve a specific purpose
EQs usually start with certain question word that serve a specific purpose
Right-There Questions
Right-There Questions
Right-there questions are the questions that you need to answer in order to find the best answer to your essential question.
Right-there questions are the questions that you need to answer in order to find the best answer to your essential question.
The answers to these questions become the evidence that you use to answer your essential question.
They usually have a correct answer
RTQs usually start with words like:
RTQs usually start with words like:
Who...?
What...?
When...?
Where...?
How questions that measure where the answer will be a number (i.e. How much...? How far...? How heavy...?)
Questions words where there is a yes or no answer (i.e. Do...? Are...? Is...? Did... ?)
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