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Productive Questions
PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY

This professional resource provides information about productive questions. Productive questions are questions that children ask that can be investigated through hands-on, minds-on experiences. Six different types of productive questions are described in this article. Examples are given for each type of productive question. (ts)

RESOURCE TYPE
Professional Resource
STANDARDS ALIGNMENT
Grades PreK–6
TOPICS
Science --
Science and Inquiry;
Scientific Ways of Knowing;
KEYWORDS
attention-focusing questions;
measuring and counting questions;
comparison questions;
action questions;
problem-posing questions;
reasoning questions;
inquiry
Publisher: Mediterranean Association of International Schools
Author: Vickie Harry