Question of the week - set 1

Question of the week is designed to provoke discussion, encourage oracy, develop science talk, research skills and curiosity in your classroom.

In each pack, you’ll find 6 questions, each one accompanied by a high quality image, one per week for a half term.

Ways to get the most out of our Question of the Week resources:

• Introduce the question at the start of the week in assembly, in the classroom at registration or at the start of the first science lesson of the week
• Allow open ended responses for children to wonder, ask more questions, clarify and develop understanding of what the question is asking them
• Provide sticky notes, pen and paper or mini whiteboard near where the question is shared throughout the week and encourage children to respond with their ideas
• Encourage children to take the question home and talk about it with their families. There may be some experts in their wider family who can help answer the questions too!
• Why are there no answers to the questions? Lots of the questions are nuanced deliberately so the answer isn’t clear cut. A quick internet search will give you as an educator a flavour of any key facts to support your responses to their curiosity but the main purpose of these activities is not to be correct but to talk freely about science and encourage curiosity, interest and develop their science capital.