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If you teach in an inquiry- or project-based classroom, you probably use guiding questions to help your students really dig into a topic. Well, now that summer is officially upon us, it's time to consider what questions will guide your summer and help you really dig in. Here's a list of 100 guiding questions that can help you get the most out of this season. Pick a question from the list, or let the ideas here inspire you to fashion your own. Then get busy with your summer of inquiry!
- What self-improvement should I do this summer?
- What positive health habit can I adopt?
- What is my most negative health habit, and how can I end it?
- What is my biggest physical complaint, and how can I get rid of it?
- How can I get outside more?
- What activity can I do with friends?
- What preventive care should I do this summer?
- How can I improve my attitude and outlook?
- How can I become happier?
- What part of my personality would I most like to change, and how?
- How can I better manage stress and anxiety?
- What self-talk do I do, and how can I make it more positive?
- How can I improve my energy and strength?
- What new hairstyle should I try?
- What shift in fashion would make me feel better about myself?
- What do I want out of this summer, and how can I get it?
- What do I want out of the next year of life, and how can I go for it?
- What do I want my life to look like in 5 years? 10 years? 20 years?
- How can I build my confidence and self-esteem?
- What professional development should I do this summer?
- How can I create or expand my personal learning network (PLN)?
- What book about teaching should I read this summer?
- What style of teaching would I like to explore next year?
- What webinars and conferences could I attend?
- What social networking sites could I use to keep up on teaching trends?
- What one big change would I like to make in my classroom, and how?
- Whom could I team-teach with next year, and how?
- How can I collaborate more closely with other teachers?
- What one factor could I change to better connect with students?
- Which students struggle in my class, and what can I do to help them?
- What teaching mentors can I find?
- What new technology should I learn to be a better teacher?
- What students need my support this summer, and how can I give it?
- What could I do to help stop the summer slide in students?
- What new lesson plans should I write up this summer?
- How can I avoid burnout and recharge my batteries this summer?
- How can my family get the most out of this summer?
- How can I connect more with family members?
- How can I build a family out of my friendships?
- How can I create great family memories?
- What can I do with my family?
- How can I deepen my relationship with my spouse?
- How can I deepen my relationship with my children?
- What relationships need repair, and how can I fix them?
- What get-togethers should I plan or attend?
- What family milestones should we celebrate this summer?
- How can I show my family that I love them?
- Why have I drifted from others, and how can we regain the closeness?
- How can we build greater trust and harmony?
- What new family traditions can we establish?
- What project can we work on together to bond more?
- How can we improve communication in our family?
- Which family member is struggling, and how can the rest of us help?
- What is our genealogy?
- What improvements can I make to my living space this summer?
- What room do I want to make over, and how?
- What do I want to plant and tend?
- What home repair or maintenance needs to be done?
- How can I make my living space safer?
- How can I make my living space more secure?
- How can I find an attractive, durable, inexpensive _______________ ?
- How could I rearrange this room to be more comfortable?
- What poorly used space could be reworked into living space?
- How could I make home projects into family projects?
- What changes in decor would transform this space?
- How can this space serve multiple functions?
- What foods would I like to learn to cook this summer?
- How could I help the kids learn to cook?
- What's the least comfortable thing about my home, and how do I fix it?
- How can I improve my community this summer?
- What neighbors have I not met, and how can I do so?
- What good deeds can I do to help my neighbors?
- How many batches of cookies should I bake, and who gets them?
- Which friend needs help, and how can I provide it?
- What activities should I get involved with?
- How can I make my community a better place?
- What organizations should I volunteer for?
- What's a big need in my community, and how can I help fill it?
- What could I do to make the school a better place next year?
- How can I build new relationships in the community?
- What community events should I attend?
- What local causes should I support, and how?
- What changes in my life will positively impact the environment?
- What travel and leisure activities should I be involved in this summer?
- Where should I go this summer, and what should I see?
- What wonderful destinations lie in my own backyard?
- What special events should I attend this summer?
- What new experience do I want to have this summer?
- Whom should I go to visit, and whom should I invite over?
- What historical site could teach me the most this summer?
- How can I most affordably have the adventure of a lifetime?
- What culture would I like to experience and explore?
- Where can I hike, jog, boat, or bike this summer?
- What big challenge would I enjoy accomplishing?
- What would be the most relaxing trip?
- What plays would I like to go see?
- What concerts could I attend?
- What museums would I like to tour?
- If I could go anywhere, where would it be and why?
- What can I do this summer that I will remember gladly forever?