Inquiry Strategies for the Journey North Teacher Making Sense of Data Questions That Help Students Make Sense of Data Back to Menu of Inquiry Strategies What patterns do you notice? What relationships do you notice (e.g., between wind and eagles' movement)? What do the data "show?" What do you think the data mean? (What can you conclude?) What can you infer about ________? How would you explain _________? How does it relate to what you already know or have observed? What generalizations can you make based on your observations/the data? How does the evidence support your explanation? What other explanations could be plausible? How is it similar to/different from what you had thought would happen (hypothesized)? Did your theory change? What information/data caused you to change your theory? Based on these findings, what do you predict would happen if _____? What new questions do you have? Questions That Help Students Make Sense of Data Dealing with Unusual Findings Explaining What Happened Responding to Misconceptions and "Wrong" Answers Asking, "So What?" The Implications of Research   Facebook Pinterest Twitter © 1997 – 2019 Journey North. All rights reserved.