 |  Teaching Children Science: A Project-Based Approach, 2/e Joe Krajcik,
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Charlene Czerniak,
University of Toledo
Carl Berger,
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
What Is a Driving Question?
Chapter Summary- Driving questions organize and drive sustained inquiry.
- Driving questions have six features. They are
- Feasible.
- Worthwhile.
- Contextualized.
- Meaningful.
- Ethical.
- Sustainable.
- Driving questions differ from other questions because they are not topic based, and they are related to children's lives.
- Teachers can develop driving questions from
- Personal experience.
- School curriculum.
- Listening to students.
- Hobbies and personal interests.
- Media including the World Wide Web.
- Listening to other teachers.
- Published curriculum materials.
- Teachers can help students develop driving questions by
- Creating rich classroom environments.
- Helping students generate subquestions to the main driving question.
- Linking to students' prior experiences.
- Driving questions are valuable because they
- Are meaningful to students.
- Allow teachers and students to link various parts of the project.
- Engage students in intellectual problems over time.
- Link content and processes.
- Help students connect school to their lives.
- Connect subject areas.
- Throughout projects teachers continually make connections to the driving question.
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