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The WONDER phase of the inquiry process involves formulating a line of inquiry out of your initial discoveries. However, questioning continues throughout the inquiry process, thereby deserving its title...inquiry!
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Dulhunk. Question Everything. Feb, 2005. Flickr. http://www.flickriver.com/photos/dullhunk/202872717/

Question Types
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Question Levels via Kelsey Barker , teacher-librarian.
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Googleable vs. Non-Googleable Questions.
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Problem solving question types from Harvard Business Review.

Question Formulation
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Visible Thinking Strategies

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Question STARTS from Harvard Project Zero's +Visible Thinking Strategies.
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Question SORTS form Harvard Project Zero's Visible Thinking Strategies.

THE QUESTION FORMULATION TECHNIQUE
QFT Infographic via TeachThought
Developed by Luz Santana and Dan Rothstein, the Question Formulation Technique was created to foster student questioning.  This QFT was developed as a collaborative process, because students' questions are ignited by other students' questions. However, it can be also be used effectively for independent inquiry projects. Students may work independently, followed by pair or group sharing throughout the process.
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The Question Ladder can be used to "approach/explore an issue through various directions."
Effective Inquiry questions often begin with "higher order" question combination stems.
  • Why would? Why will? Why might?
  • How would? How will? How might?​​
  • What if?
  • Should?
Questions Lead to Questions Technique

Developing Need to Know Questions

Once you've determined your hypothesis or Inquiry question, you'll need to produce need to know or investigate questions. These are the questions which you will investigate, because they provide information which you will use to support your hypothesis or Inquiry question.  You may want to organize your questions utilizing a mind mapping tool. (See Productivity Tools). Place your Hypothesis or Primary Research Question in the center of the web and as you add your need to know questions, you'll begin seeing how they're connected, categories, sub-questions etc.
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Questioning Through Disciplinary Lenses
  • Cultural and Social
  • Artistic and Philosophical
  • Political and Historical
  • Environmental 
  • Economic
  • Scientific
  • Futuristic
  • ​Ethical
Who are the stakeholders connected to your issue within each discipline? What might they want/need to know about concerning the issue?
Questioning Through Conceptual Lenses
  • Form: What is it like?
  • Function: How does it work?
  • Causation: Why is it like it is?
  • Change: How is it changing?
  • Connection: How is it connected to other things?
  • Perspective: What are the points of view?
  • Responsibility: What is our responsibility?
  • Reflection: How do we know?
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Concept Cards via Sonia Terborg. Tool for promoting questioning issues through lenses.

Questioning throughout the Research process

How Library Stuff Works: Research as Inquiry via McMaster (University) Libraries 

​Research Question Rubric