Your one move
Two explorers gather data with no clear question
The rest have a question and are testing it against what they find.
Today's session
The hour
Instruction
A question worth answering
Look at two field projects: one with a sharp question, one without. Name what the focused one can do that the other cannot.
Targets the 'data with no question' habit two explorers show.
1:1 Talk-buddy
Sharpen the question
Partners turn a broad topic into one answerable question, then test if their data could answer it.
A narrower question is almost always the better one.
Self-work
Plan or sort your study
Explorers write their question and sort evidence under it. Sit with Karan and Anjali on framing the question.
Support card gives a 'I want to find out whether…' starter.
Activity
Question swap
Swap questions with another pair and suggest one way to make it sharper or more answerable.
Peer feedback that targets the question, not the topic.
Recent work & rising standard
Does the lake smell worse after rain? — field notes
Two weeks of observation, a real hypothesis, and a revision when the first guess failed.
Where do shoppers come from? — market map
Sharp question; clear way of recording. Next step is reading the pattern in the data.
Lake-edge plant survey, notes
Lots of careful notes, but no question yet. This term: set the question first.
Worth a small group
Children who need a nudge on their craft this term.
Karan Gupta
Craft: gathering data before setting a question
Anjali Pai
Craft: question still too broad
Siddharth Ghosh
Craft: question and data not yet linked
Mixed-age groups
Grouped by level and interest, not by age.
Lake water study
Market survey
Traffic and noise
Worksheets matched to each child
One sharp question
Target skill · Frame an answerable question
- 1.Finish: I want to find out whether…
- 2.Could the notes you have answer it? If not, what is missing?
- 3.Make your question one step narrower.
Sort evidence under your question
Target skill · Match evidence to a question
- 1.Write your question at the top.
- 2.List which notes help answer it.
- 3.What would change your answer?
The group
The class · 20 children
Karan Gupta
Collects data with no question
Anjali Pai
Broad topic, no focus yet
Vikram Nair
Tests his question against findings
Sneha Iyer
Strong, answerable question
Ananya Rao
Moving with the class
Priya Hegde
Moving with the class
Siddharth Ghosh
Moving with the class
Kavya Sharma
Moving with the class
Varun Reddy
Moving with the class
Naveen Menon
Moving with the class
Aditya Shetty
Moving with the class
Nisha Joshi
Moving with the class
Riya Kulkarni
Moving with the class
Rahul Kapoor
Moving with the class
Pooja Verma
Moving with the class
Aman Sheikh
Moving with the class
Divya Bose
Moving with the class
Ishaan Pillai
Moving with the class
Tara Menon
Moving with the class
Rohit Das
Moving with the class