One of my Favorites

You can download the second set of Task Cards HERE.  These are part of a set of 45 Creative and Critical Thinking Strategies that you can collect and place on a ring as shown in a post below. Practice a few each week and by the time you have the full set, you will be a "whiz" at encouraging your students to think!

The "Answer App" is the first one in this set of cards.  It is one of my favorites. In the picture above you can see teachers in action practicing the strategy. First, we practiced a few examples such as "Abraham Lincoln is the answer.  What is the question?"  We have 8 - 10 different questions that related to the answer.  Next, I asked, "21 is the answer.  What is the question?"  Their questions were pretty funny with little relationship to math. (But that's what happens when teachers are rested up during the summer.)  Last, they were asked to write "an answer", similar to the two examples, on the top of a piece of paper and then fold it into a paper airplane.  When they were ready, we all stood up  to throw the airplane on the count of three.   Everyone picked up an airplane and wrote one question that related to the answer at the top.  We folded it back into an airplane and flew it again.  Everyone picked up one that they had not had previously and began to write a second question that related to the answer.   This continued until each answer had three different questions.  A few were willing to share out. It's a great way to get your students actively involved in vocabulary practice!