Approach: One
to one |
Level:
Year 4
and year 8 |
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Focus:
Developing
questions on a topic.
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Resources:
2 pictures of
kiwi, recording book. |
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1.2MB |
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Questions
/ instructions:
Hand student
pictures of kiwi.
Here is a picture of a kiwi and an x-ray of a kiwi.
If you were going to give a talk to your class about the x-ray picture,
you would need to have good information.
What are 3 really useful questions you could ask an expert on kiwis,
so that you would have good information for a talk about the x-ray picture?
Ill write down your questions for you.
Record student responses. After the 3 things have been written, say:
Ill read out what Ive written down. If there is anything
you want to change, tell me and Ill write it down.
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%
responses
2000 ('97) |
y4
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y8 |
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First
question:
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clear
question about kiwis |
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related
to x-ray |
50
(55) |
66
(73) |
not
related to x-ray |
41
(31) |
31
(21) |
Second
question:
|
clear
question about kiwis |
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related
to x-ray |
47
(46) |
57
(61) |
not
related to x-ray |
44
(36) |
37
(36) |
Third
question:
|
clear
question about kiwis |
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related
to x-ray |
36
(38) |
48 (53) |
not
related to x-ray |
51
(40) |
42
(39) |
How
much useful information are the questions likely to produce? |
lots |
17
(14) |
20
(20) |
a
moderate amount |
40
(41) |
45
(49) |
just
3 specific facts |
32
(25) |
28
(28) |
less
than that |
11 (20) |
7
(3) |
Total
score: |
89
|
20
(27) |
28
(33) |
67
|
36
(28) |
41 (43) |
45
|
33
(24) |
25
(20) |
23
|
3
(7) |
4
(2) |
01
|
8
(14) |
2
(2) |
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Commentary:
About 10 percent more year 8 than year 4 students succeeded well with
this task. Compared to four years earlier, year 8 students did a little
worse while year 4 students did as well on average but with fewer high
or low scores. |