Exit ticket · What Makes a Good Research Question?

Exit Ticket

Exit Ticket: 1. What makes a question investigable?

1. Change this into an investigable question: “Is compost good?”

1. Write your garden question.

Answer Key / Look-Fors: (1) It can be answered by changing something and measuring or observing a result. (2) Example: “Do radishes grow taller in soil with compost than without compost?” (3) A question that names a change and a measurement.

Expanding Circles — how does this connect to… Self — What do you wonder about at home? • Classroom — What questions does our class have about the garden? • School — What questions could help our school? • Community — What questions do farmers near us need answered? • World — What big questions are scientists investigating around the world?

Formative Assessment (evidence for sorting students: each investigable garden question with its tool and the exit-ticket rewrite of “Is compost good?”): Meets (3): Writes an investigable garden question that names a change, a measurement, and a tool.

Approaching (2): Question is about the garden but missing the change or the measurement.

Not Yet (1): Question is a yes/no opinion or fact question — reteach with the “change → measure” frame.