QFT & NGSS – Questioning the Traditional Lesson Structure

The students then were led through the QFT technique. Some of the questions derived included: “what is the relationship between temperature and pressure?”, “what affects volume more temperature or pressure?”, “what causes balloons to expand and contract?”,” how would the shape change if it were a different gas?”, “what would happen if there were more molecules in the balloon from the beginning of the experiment?”. All of these were ideas which I typically would have used to drive discussion or generate lessons from. Here, the students generated the questions and took ownership of the lesson flow as I would show how the students’ questions were related to the aim of that particular lesson. The same content was taught, but the order in which it was presented was slightly different to address the students’ questions as the lesson aim.