Questioning During Science National Geographic

In a National Geographic Magazine. I read one of the articles aloud. While I was reading it, I would stop and tell them a question that I wondered about. I would stop every once in awhile showing different ways of wondering and asking questions...like "I knew that, but I didn't know... I wonder how...." "That's cool, but did it..." We discussed how we know about more subjects than others, but even when we think we know a lot, we still have questions. Or while we're reading, we read about things that make us wonder or have questions that remained unanswered. I handed out sticky notes and said they were going to read another article and as they came upon something that made them wonder or have more questions, to write that on the sticky note and put beside the article. The students also noticed as they read, that some of their questions were answered later as they were reading the article. When we were done, we read the article together and stopped every once in awhile when a student would share their thoughts, wonders, or questions about it. The National Geographic magazine worked really well because it is full of great photos and interesting topics. This one was especially interesting talking about how living animals/plants live in weird/extreme places (like in poisonous caves etc) and how impossible it seems. We then talked about how these questions would lead us to do more research or in depth study about our questions. If I or a student didn't have an answer, I encouraged them to go home and search on the internet for the answers so they could share what they learned with the class the next day.