The Unanswered Questions icon instructs students to seek out puzzles, conundrums, and dilemmas. Learners are encouraged to note ambiguities, formulate questions, and test assumptions.
Curricular Examples:
Infer the daily activities of a chemist based on a series of biographical articles.
Ascertain the author’s motivation in writing the article.
Consider the equation and conclude the missing information needed to solve the problem.
Note ambiguities between primary texts about a historical event.
Question Stems:
How can an engineer solve the problem by discovering what has not been explored, proven, or understood about a topic?
How is the information given incomplete or lacking in explanation?
What discrepancies in information did you find in your research about the Loch Ness monster?
Task Statement:
Students will list unanswered questions at the onset of the study of plate tectonics, use the questions to guide their research, and create a museum exhibit displaying their findings.
