Technology Workshop Lesson Plan

Good Questions for Inquiry & Using Kahoot! to Engage Students

Audience: Cumming Elementary School teachers
Standards:

NETS-T 1a: Promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness
NETS-T 1c: Promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify
students conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.
NETS-T 2a: Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and
resources to promote student learning and creativity.
NETS-T 2b: Develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to
pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own
educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress
NETS-T 2d: Provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments
aligned with content and technology standards, and use resulting data to inform learning and
teaching
NETS-T 5: Teachers continuously improve their professional practice, model lifelong
learning, and exhibit leadership in their school and professional community by promoting
and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources.

Instructional Objectives:

Teachers will be able to increase the rigor of questioning by following:

1. Hess's Cognitive Matrix
2. Question Stems
3. Depths of Questions Spectrum

Teachers will be able to integrate technology into their classroom to engage students in
rigorous questioning using the tool Kahoot!, an educational platform which brings
engagement and joy to teaching and learning in any subject.

Essential Questions:

How can I increase the depth of thought and discussion in my classroom?

What does higher order thinking look like or sound like?
How can I use technology (specifically Kahoot!) to engage students with higher order
questioning?

Activating Strategy:

Brainstorm What does higher order questioning look like / sound like?
Teachers will work in small groups to discuss their ideas.
Groups will record their answers into a lino page embedded into the website.

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Teaching:

As a whole group, review responses posted in lino and look for similiarities.
Display Hesss Cognitive Rigor Matrix. (Teachers have previously seen this matrix so they
are familiar with the layout.)
o Ask teachers to search for key words in the matrix (such as repetitive language or
unique vocabulary; example synthesize and use supporting evidence)
o Ask teachers to compare the language on the matrix to the language on the lino are
there any similarities?
o Direct teachers attention to DOK Levels 3 and 4 / Blooms Levels Understand,
Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, and Create. (Remind teachers that remember is not part of
higher order thinking or questioning, nor is DOK Level 1 or 2.)
Discuss
o Distribute Depth of Questions Spectrum to audience. Direct teachers to notice the
different types of questions Questions for Gathering, Questions for
Reasoning/Thinking, Compelling Questions, and Essential Questions. Ask
teachers which of the types would be more higher order; what do they notice is the
same in each reasoning engaged box? (OPEN questions) Ask teachers what open
questions mean to them.
o Direct teachers to Prime Question Stems to shift into higher order thinking
Have audience give example of using an open-ended question in their room
and what that led to.
Remind teachers that they must be intentional with this type of questioning, so
often times, it requires prior planning
o Ask teachers what kinds of feelings the words debate and argue conjure in them.
What happens when you add support to that mix? Discuss that these verbs, when they
are supported by evidence, are necessary to incorporate into our classrooms for
students to be successful citizens. Open-ended / higher order questioning can lead to
interesting discussions that a teacher can moderate.
Introduce Kahoot!
o Have students take out their device, type in kahoot.it to their web browser, and join
the quiz with pin #
o Teachers will then walk through the example Kahoot (a simple football quiz)
o Upon completion, show teachers results page and encourage teachers to defend their
answers. (Example One teacher thinks that the Florida Gators are the best football
team, while many others believe the Georgia Bulldogs are the best. Teachers are to
make their argument using evidence to support their answer.)
o Illustrate ideas of activities teachers could use Kahoot! for in their classroom

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o Give teachers ideas of how to use higher order questioning with Kahoot. (Examples:
making inferences, sequencing, developing logical arguments.)
Summarizing Activity

Think, Pair, & Share Allow teachers a few minutes to consider:

o What did you learn?
o What questions do you still have?
o How could you apply this to your classroom?
Teachers will then share with their neighbor about one or more of their ideas.
A few teachers will be In the Hot Seat. A sticker will be randomly placed under chairs
before the session starts. The teachers in those seats will share their thoughts to the entire
group.