Process

Step 1: Work with a partner so that you can make sure that each of your questions are quality questions. 

Step 2: Go to the following websites and learn about Bloom"s Taxonomy of Questions and find examples of the Six Levels of Questions that help you ask questions at a higher thinking level.

Overview of Bloom's Taxonomy http://www.odu.edu/educ/llschult/blooms_taxonomy.htm 

Example of Comprehension Questions Using Bloom's Taxonomy http://www.ops.org/reading/blooms_taxonomy.html
 
Bloom's Taxonomy Sample Questions
http://www.officeport.com/edu/bloomq.htm

Applying Bloom's Taxonomy http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/researchskills/dalton.htm


 

 

 

Step 3: Go to one of the following websites  to find out information about how things work or what made a person famous. Choose a thing or person and print out the information on that thing or person.

How Stuff Works where you can learn how everything works.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/

The Academy of Achievement where you will find information about extraordinary leaders, thinkers and pioneers who have influenced changes in our world.
http://achievement.org/


 

Step 4: Now that you know how to ask higher level thinking questions and have printed out information about a thing or person, you are ready to make your game question cube.

You can print your question cube and write the questions on it or you can download the electronic document and type your questions on it.

Be sure that when you create your questions about your famous person or how things work that you choose each of the six question types from Bloom's Taxonomy.  Have the answers ready to the questions so that you can check the students' answers who will be playing your question cube game. (reminder: because these are higher level questions, there are some questions that are not right or wrong but are a thought or opinion)

Step 5: Once you have your question cube ready, find two other students to pair up with and answer each other's questions after reading about the specific thing or person that you selected.

Check each other's answers. To have success in asking quality questions, the  other students should be able to answer your questions with at least 80% accuracy.