QFT Step 2: Improve your Questions
Categorize Questions
1. Review your list of questions.
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Investigable Questions
You can find the answer by building and testing a zipline carrier. For example: N - How does friction affect the carrier? -- Not an investigable question. I - How does the size of the fishing string affect the carrier? - Investigable |
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Convert Questions
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of questions. At what times are investigable questions more useful? And when might noninvestigable questions be more useful?
Look carefully at your questions. Change a noninvestigable question into an investigable question.
Ask yourself - What can be varied? In what ways can it be varied?
For example - Why does ice melt so fast when you put it in water?
Variables - ice and water
How can ice change? - size, amount floating above water, clearness
How can water change? - amount, temperature, adding another substance such as salt
Question - Does ice melt faster in a gallon of water or a quart of water?
Discuss how changing questions might make you look at questions differently.
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of questions. At what times are investigable questions more useful? And when might noninvestigable questions be more useful?
Look carefully at your questions. Change a noninvestigable question into an investigable question.
Ask yourself - What can be varied? In what ways can it be varied?
- Identify variables that can be changed in the question.
- How can those variables be changed?
- Generate a question about changing a variable
For example - Why does ice melt so fast when you put it in water?
Variables - ice and water
How can ice change? - size, amount floating above water, clearness
How can water change? - amount, temperature, adding another substance such as salt
Question - Does ice melt faster in a gallon of water or a quart of water?
Discuss how changing questions might make you look at questions differently.