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Wonder

Stripling Inquiry Process Model

Connect  -  Wonder  -  Investigate  -  Construct  -  Express  -  Reflect

Wonder: 

  • Decide what you want to know:

    • An essential question will guide your research (it's the "big" question.)

    • Make a list of "right there" questions that you have about the topic you will be studying. These are smaller questions that help you answer your essential question,

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Essential Questions

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

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.

RTQ Presentation
  • 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:

    • 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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