Moving Over the Old - WOW Questions

WOW Questions!

The goal of my classroom this year is to get the students asking questions, really good questions.  Learning begins with questions, progresses with questions, and only stops when the questions do.

One bulletin board is reserved just for "WOW Questions!"  These are any questions students ask that make me stop and think, I do not know the answer to, or a question that makes me look at anything in a new and interesting way!

When a "WOW Question" is asked, the student gets to write it on an index card and staple it to the board.  How cool would it be if the questions overflowed from the board to the surrounding walls!?!?!?!

Here is a picture of the first question being placed on the board.  "How did a scorpion become our mascot?"  Apparently Mrs. Stern, the principal, does not even know!  WOW!


Normally I am more "with it," but I just do not seem able to get this picture to turn.  Please tilt your head and enjoy!

More "WOW Questions" we have encountered:

• What kind of bugs do they have in Egypt?  -Brianna
• What happened to Mrs. Althaus's emergency lights? - Jordy (We had to have the assistant principal come down to see if he knew!)
• When did the world first start?  - Jose 
• What happens if the electricity goes out in a hospital during surgery?  - Haley
• Does a monk fish move?  -Sam
• What does a monk fish eat?  -Ian 
• Can people make water? - Ian
• How do you grow?  -Joel
• Since opossum starts with an "o," should it have "an" in front of it?  -Paige
• How did our human language begin?  -Audrey
• Do you eyes stay the same size your whole life?  -Lenae
• Do all whales eat krill?  -Charlie and Jordy
• Why do chickens have wattles?  -Regan