Here are 3 key resources for implementing the QFT in the elementary classroom.
Teaching + Learning
In this blog post, educator James Staton writes about how he values moments when he is wrong because they lead him to new lessons. Read more on his strategies to encourage all elementary students to explore their questions without fear of being wrong.
This is a post from the Teaching with the Library of Congress blog.
Explore this clickable, interactive unit plan from history teacher Johnny Walker's classroom to understand how you might incorporate the QFT with primary sources multiple times throughout a unit. See how you can center student questions in your curriculum.
In this lesson snapshot, a high school ESL 4 class delves into factory farming, sustainability, and the food industry through Michael Pollan's book The Omnivore's Dilemma. They use the QFT twice throughout the unit; once as a pre-reading exercise and later to unpack two juxtaposed primary sources images of farming then and now, armed with knowledge from the book.
The QFocus is often the most challenging part of designing a QFT lesson. It is also an essential piece to get right. Though it gets much easier with practice, there is always a bit of delicacy and iteration involved.