Students work in pairs to generate questions around a prompt, image, data set, or table. 2 x 2 x 2 – 2 people, 2 minutes, 2 questions.
Steps:
- Invite students to find a partner and generate two questions in two minutes on the topic of the lesson.
- Collect questions. Partners can share their questions with other groups or the teacher can collect the questions to form a list of questions. Question generation can occur around a problem, image, data table, etc.
- Use questions to guide and document learning. Students might listen for answers to questions in a mini-lesson, look for answers when reading a text or a data table. Students might discuss possible answers in groups or individually answer questions.
Variations:
Other configurations of student numbers and time can be used as well – such as 1 x 6 x 2 – Generate questions as an individual, share in a group of six, and choose two questions that meet a particular criteria (such as most relevant, interesting to answer, that have multiple correct answers, that relate to different topics, etc.).