Infertility Crisis? Wild Question Generation Inquiry | Warm-up Biology Activity

Studying infertility and the possibility of a future fertility crisis can provide a meaningful way for middle and high school science students to explore human reproduction, reproductive health, environmental factors, biology, and the role of scientific evidence in understanding complex health questions. This Wild Question Inquiry Generation activity gives students a simple but powerful starting point: they are shown an image related to infertility and fertility, then work in small groups for approximately 3 to 5 minutes to generate as many questions as possible.

The rapid-fire format encourages students to look closely, think creatively, ask questions, and move beyond obvious observations toward deeper and more meaningful scientific inquiry. Rather than immediately giving students answers, the activity puts question generation at the centre of learning and can be used as a quick warm-up at the beginning of a lesson, an introduction to a unit on human reproduction and fertility, or a mid-topic activity to help students identify what they still want to investigate.

It also provides a practical way to explicitly teach effective scientific question making and questioning skills while connecting a contemporary and potentially important biological issue to classroom science. For middle school and high school science, biology, health science, and human reproduction units, this ready-to-use inquiry activity can help turn an intriguing image into a classroom full of questions worth investigating.

This infertility crisis? inquiry questions generation activity provides the perfect supportive and fully comprehensive resource set that can help your students learn all about a pending fertility crisis through the method of question generation. This is a brief, effective technique I use to get students in the scientific inquiry mood by getting them to ask questions - a LOT of questions.

THIS INFERTILITY CRISIS? QUESTION GENERATION ACTIVITY CAN BE USED IN SO MANY WAYS:

• To extend students
• To increase scientific literacy and scientific questioning in your class
• A entry point to a unit on this topic
• Great as a lesson filler when class goes too fast or to start you off
• An exit point to a unit on this topic - for effective review and see what questions did they already answer.
• Use a sub-topic to focus on a specific part of the unit you are covering

WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS INFERTILITY CRISIS? QUESTION GENERATION ACTIVITY:

• 1 Instruction and Introduction Slide
• 1 Set of 4 images in Google Slides, Powerpoint & PDF format of materials which also has image context to provide some information and support for each of the images.
• 1 Example Image and Example Question Generation Set
• 1 Question Generation Matrix
• 1 version in short to run the activity also in Google Slides, Powerpoint & PDF format.