Simple instructional strategies that incorporate digital media in meaningful, effective, and practical ways.

20 questions
Preparation time: High Ages: Primary & Secondary Media type used: Image

The game twenty questions is widely known and helps encourage questioning and deductive
reasoning. Questioning helps form connections in the brain. Creating a questioning culture within
the classroom helps improve problem solving, develop self-confidence, and foster individualised
learning. This strategy takes a spin on the traditional game as a way to encourage students to
think through and articulate questions about a unit or topic of study.

Materials: Approximately ten printed images, pen/pencil

1. Post the printed images that relate to your topic around the classroom. Develop a higher order
inquiry question that will prompt students to ask more questions.
2. Explain to the students that the images all relate to a topic and provide a snapshot of some of
the concepts.
3. Have the students move around the room and take a moment at each photo to think of
questions they may have about the bigger picture question that you asked. Continue until all of
the students have had a chance to analyse each photo.
4. Come together as a group and have the students share the questions they created.
5. Print or post students’ collective questions around the classroom, or share on a website so that
your class will be able to refer to the ideas throughout the unit.

This strategy is an effective way to encourage student inquiry by promoting the processes of
questioning and deductive reasoning in the classroom.

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Simple instructional strategies that incorporate digital media in meaningful, effective, and practical ways.

• Challenge students to find the answers to questions by working in small groups or pairs.
• Use a developed list of questions as a scavenger hunt within a chosen website or provider of
digital content.
• Share and pause video or audio segments every 60 seconds and allow students to write
questions.

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