You will prepare six questions—two on each topic. Your two questions for each topic should be related to one another. It might be helpful for you to think about the second question as a follow up to the first. Your questions will be based on the reading passages from these lessons:

What Is Body Image?
Your Own Healthy Style
The Teen Brain: Still Under Construction
Understanding the Benefits and Risks of Screen Time for Adolescents
Screen Time Guidelines for Teens
Your questions should be formed so that they can be answered by understanding all the important concepts in the reading passages. Your questions should be open-ended, allowing the speaker to give longer, more considered and reflective answers. Don’t ask questions that are close-ended or that have answers that are too specific or related to factual details of the reading passages. Questions that can be answered with a simple “yes” or “no” should be avoided.

Note that your questions will be evaluated based on Webb’s Depth of Knowledge (DOK). DOK is a unit that measures the level of thinking required to answer a particular question. The DOK measure has four levels:

DOK 1—These close-ended questions have only one correct answer. They are also known as recall questions because they ask for a simple recall of information, such as facts, figures, or definitions.

DOK 2—These questions test your understanding of skills and concepts. To answer this type of question, you must compare and contrast, convert information from one form to another, classify and sort, or give explanations.

DOK 3—These questions test strategic or higher-level thinking in the short term. You may be required to go beyond the text and apply your understanding of one subject area to a question that relates to another subject area. You must generalize, connect ideas, and make inferences in order to answer these questions.

DOK 4—These questions test strategic or higher-level thinking in the long term. They are extended activities—like term papers or projects—that require the application of skills and concepts to solve larger problems. Over the course of the activity, you may be expected to apply skills, manage, adapt, plan, and even propose a course of action to solve a problem.
Your questions must be DOK level 2 or 3. Learn more about these DOKs.

Here are some resources you can consult when you draft your questions:

Interviewing "Experts"
Asking the Right Questions
Creating Good Interview and Survey Questions
Here are some additional tips to consider when writing your questions:

Ask open-ended questions. For example instead of asking, “Can we change body images?” you can ask, “What can we do to promote positive body images?” The first question can be answered “yes” or “no.” The second question allows the speaker to give a more measured and well-thought-out response.

Ask questions that are related to one another on a given topic. You can also ask follow-up questions. For instance, you might ask, “How do changes in the teenage brain make teens more vulnerable to addictions such as alcohol?” Then you could ask a follow-up question to gain more information: “How would a history of drinking in a family affect a teenager’s brain structure?”

Don’t ask biased or leading questions that force the speaker to agree with you and answer in a way that suits you. Here is an example of a leading question: “Don’t you agree that parents should be responsible for helping their children have a positive body image?” Instead, you could ask, “What can parents do to help their children maintain a positive body image?”