Thinking & Questioning Costa's Levels of Thinking & Questioning

LG & EQ Questions/ Key Terms Notes Learning Goals Explain the difference between higher and lower-level questions. 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 Questions/ Key Terms 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 high-quality, 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 Tutorials “N” Note key ideas To write questions On the left.

The Three Story House The Three-Story Intellect Questions/ Key Terms Notes 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 Recall and comprehension of factual knowledge. Questions/ Key Terms 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) Questions/ Key Terms 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 Questions/ Key Terms Notes Level 2 questions require level 1 knowledge. You go through level 1 to get to level 2. Analyze Explain (Why?) Compare Sequence Contrast Summarize Group/Classify Synthesize Infer

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! Questions/ Key Terms 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 Questions/ Key Terms Notes Each table has a paper bag in the center. Place a personal item into the bag (don’t worry, you’ll get it back in 5-10 minutes). Pass the bag around -- Each group member should remove and study an item from the bag. 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) Each person will share their questions: Group should determine if the levels and verb are correct.

Postcard Activity Questions/ Key Terms 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 Questions/ Key Terms 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 Questions/ Key Terms Notes 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. AVID Tutorial questions must come from either level 2 or level 3.