Thick and Thin Questions

Yesterday's lesson was on thick and thin questions. Because (as teams) we are brainstorming concept questions, we had to learn about what it takes to be a good question (thick) and a not so important/easy question (thin). Here is a list that we came up with about the difference between thick and thin questions and what a thick question means and what a thin question means.

Thick Question:

• Makes you think deeply
• Can write up to a paragraph for an answer
• May allow follow up questions
• Opinion Questions
• Questions that can spend up lots of time answering

Thin Questions:

• Could be a yes or no question
• Could be a question that only takes a max of 2 minutes to answer
• Not relevant questions (sometimes)
• Questions that don't make sense (sometimes)