LG & EQ
Questions/ Key Terms
Notes
Learning Goals
1. Explain the difference between higher and
lower-level questions.
2. Practice writing questions from each of
Costa’s 3 levels.
Essential Question
How can inquiry/questioning help me to better
understand what I’m learning in my
classes?
A Few Quotes About Questions
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Notes
* A question is an invitation to think.
* “The quality of the thinking is given in the
quality of the question.”
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by
his answers.” -- Voltaire
High-quality questions reflect and lead to highquality, rigorous thinking. This is what is
required of college students, therefore…..
Questions are verbs….and they force your
brain to do something. Because of this,
there is a unique power in questions.
Where Questions Fit In To The
Work You Are Doing…
Questions/ Key Terms
Notes
Cornell Notes
“N” Note key ideas
To write questions
On the left.
Tutorials
The Three Story House
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The Three-Story Intellect
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
There are one story intellects,
Two-story intellects and
Three-story intellects with skylights.
All fact collectors who have no aim
Beyond their facts are one-story
men.
Two-story men compare, reason,
generalize,
Using the labor of fact collectors as
their own.
Three-story men idealize, imagine,
predict-Their best illumination comes from
above the skylight.
Level One Questions
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Notes
Recall and comprehension of
factual knowledge.
•Define
•Describe
•List
•Name
•Identify
•Recall
•Reporter Q’s (Who, What, When, Where,
Why, How?)
Level One Questions
(Examples)
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Notes
1. What is a republic? (Define
2. Describe why Rome was a good place to
build a city in the ancient world.
3. What are the organelles in a plant cell?
(List
4. Who was the first emperor of Rome?
(Name
5. What are the coefficients in the following
variable expression: 2x - 3y = 24 (Identify
6. What organelle makes food in a plant cell?
7. Who is the protagonist in Riki Tiki Tavi?
8. What football team wears silver and black?
Level Two Questions
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Notes
Level 2 questions require level 1
knowledge. You go through level 1 to get
to level 2.
Analyze
Compare
Contrast
Group/Classify
Infer
Explain (Why?)
Sequence
Summarize
Synthesize
How can you group the following NFL teams?
Saints
Raiders
Falcons
Seahawks
Ravens
Steelers
Titans
Dolphins
Colts
Giants
Jets
Patriots
Bengals
49ers
Eagles
Browns
Level Two Questions
(Examples)
Questions/ Key Terms
Notes
What are the steps used to solve 2-step variable
expressions? (Sequence)
How were the Roman monarchy and empire
alike? (Compare)
How are plant and animal cells different?
(Contrast)
How can the data be put into graphic form?
(Illustrate)
Summarize the story of Romulus and Remus.
What does Caesar’s murder suggest about
Roman society? (Infer)
Level Three Questions
Questions/ Key Terms
Notes
This is “off the page” thinking and questioning
that applies the knowledge in new ways.
Apply
If…Then
Evaluate
Hypothesize
Imagine
Create an analogy
Judge/Critique
Recommend
Predict/Speculate
Create or Invent/Design
Level Three Questions
(Examples) Now we’re thinking!
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Notes
Was killing Caesar the right thing to do? Did it help or hurt
Rome? (Judge/Evaluate)
Design an experiment to test out the following hypothesis:
Create an analogy to describe the structure of a plant cell.
How is it like a medieval city?
Is it ethical for scientists to experiment on animals?
(Judge)
Imagine you were a character in “The Giver.” What advice
would you give Jonas?
What would happen to your answer if you doubled the
coefficients? (Speculate)
Using the Pythagorean Theorum, what is the length of the
missing side of this right triangle?
Inquiry in a Bag Activity
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Notes
Each table has a paper bag in the center.
1. Place a personal item into the bag (don’t worry, you’ll
get it back in 5-10 minutes).
2. Pass the bag around -- Each group member should
remove and study an item from the bag.
3. Using what you have learned today about Costa’s
Levels of Questions, write a level 1, 2, and 3
question. What level and what type? (ex. Level
2,How are phones today different than those from 10
years ago? Contrast)
4. Each person will share their questions: Group should
determine if the levels and verb are correct.
Postcard Activity
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Notes
1. Each person should have received a piece of
a post-card today.
2. Find the other students in class who
“complete your picture,” tell them “you complete
me,” and sit at a table group together. This is
who you will be working with today.
3. Assemble your puzzle and tape it to the chart
paper.
4. Write a level one, two, and three question
about your picture.
Fairytale Inquiry
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Notes
You will once-again practice asking
questions from each of Costa’s three
levels: this time the questions will be
based on a well-known fairy-tale…….
1. Read the fairy tale to re-aquaint yourself
with the story.
2. Write a level 1, 2, and 3 question about the
fairy tale.
3. Share your questions with your partner,
discuss your answers, and determine
whether they are correctly written.
The AVID Expectation
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Notes
1. When writing questions about main ideas
from your notes, you should write level 2 or
3 questions because to answer them will
imply and require level 1 information.
2. AVID Tutorial questions must come from
either level 2 or level 3.