We have a Question Box in our classroom. (It is a tissue box that I wrapped with black construction paper and labeled Question Box.) Students can write questions on slips of paper and put them in the box. When students are finished with independent work, they can pull a question out of the box and look up the answer. This is great with encouraging curiosity as well as developing research skills. They're learning how to use encyclopedias, the Internet, almanacs and atlases, etc. At the beginning they start off with Skinny Questions, i.e. "What is Davy Crockett's middle name?" or questions where the writer is trying to be silly, i.e. "How old is Ms. Ross?" but gradually they get the idea and really jump into learning. Today a question was researched, "Why are bubbles round?"
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