Can I ask you a question?
CSHS Learning Zone Faculty Meeting/Staff Development | March 1, 2017 | Mishler
Obtain New Learning
Tsunami Pod Article
1. How would the article be different if the person lived in Oklahoma? Florida?
The article would be different if the main subject lived in ______________ because
2. Why did the author include the statement, “What if you get stuck under debris, or something tears it and it
leaks…You’re just not going to convince me they’re safe.” (page 2)
3. Name all types of people who could benefit from the invention and provide an explanation as to why you
identified them.
4. When is the cost of safety too much? Is it ever?
5. Where else in the world might this invention be helpful?
What would you include in your tsunami capsule or emergency kit?
How could YOU improve this invention?
Develop Your Understanding
How to Use the Q-Matrix:
1. Pick the first word of your question from the red area.
2. Pick the second word of your question from the yellow.
3. Avoid Area 51 if you are creating higher-level questions.
4. Read over your question to make sure it makes sense and can be answered.
Practice your Learning
1. Pick one of the other two articles (“Earthlike planets…” or “The History of Mardi Gras”) and read it.
2. Use the Q-Matrix to create 2-3 higher-level questions (outside Area 51) and scaffold down with 1-2 questions
that are more basic (inside Area 51).
3. Compare questions with a partner and/or Mishler before you leave.
Apply & Evaluate your Learning
Within the next month, you are tasked with using the Q-matrix to write higher-level questions for several lessons
(we can’t get good at it if we only do it once). Keep notes on how the students respond to the questions during
discussion/activities and how the summative assessments are impacted (positively or negatively). You will need
these notes for our April Learning Zone meeting.
Be looking for the April follow-up meeting to the questioning session!