Who Wants to Be a Pioneer?
Designed by Rob Dent and Paula White
Spring 2000

Question Guidelines

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General Guidelines:

 

  1. You, individually, will create four multiple choice questions that can be answered from the information on your sites.
  2. These four questions will consist of one from each of three levels: easy, medium and hard, and one from the category of your choice.
    • The easy questions should be simple recall questions,
    • the medium questions should compare and contrast roles within your sites, and
    • the hard questions should require some analysis of the information.
  3. After you have created your own questions, you will meet with your team and compile all of your questions together. You will then pick the best five questions in each category and turn them in for the game. 

Process for Compiling team Questions

  1. If you are a Virginia L. Murray Elementary student, go here for specific directions on how and where to save your computer work. Please save all drafts of your work, from beginning to final copy.
  2. Your team will have a folder that should include each individual's final questions as well as the teams' final questions. Be sure to print your work when you are ready to turn it in and give it to the person keeping the team folder.
  3. After you create YOUR questions, you should ask a team member to try your questions and give you feedback. If you make changes, save that document as questions2. This is the document you take to your team, but you should include your questions1 document in the team folder as well. Be sure all documents you create have your name and number on them.
  4. Choose someone to be the recorder. The recorder opens the team questions draft document in the team folder. You will then help the recorder compile the team's questions by copying and pasting each person's questions into the team document. Leave each individual's questions in the individual's folder. Save this first document as team __(put your team number here) questions draft.
  5. As a team, revise the questions together. Some questions may need to be omitted, others completely reworded. Change them as necessary to fit the team's thinking and have five good questions in each category. Save this document as team __ final questions. Make sure you have filled in the header on the document.
  6. Print both your individual and your team questions and give them to the teacher for feedback.
  7. Your team questions will be returned to you and you have another chance to revise them, and make your final copy.
  8. Make sure everyone in your team knows the answers to all of your team's questions.

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Directions for Saving Your Work

  1. You have a folder in the Frontier folder that has your name and a number on it. Please make sure you identify all of your work with this number. (The first number is the number of your team and the second number is your number from your name in alphabetical order in your team.)
  2. As you create your questions, save them to your folder in the Frontier folder as questions1. When you revise them, save them as questions2. Be sure to always put your number on your document name. (Example, if you are the first person in team one, your number will be 1.1, so your first questions document should be named 1.1questions1. When you revise it, it will be 1.1questions2.
  3. Your team work should always be saved into your team folder, and named with your team number. So, your final questions should be saved as (if you are in team 1) 1finalquestions.

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