Here are three questions at different levels for each topic: Ecology Level 1: Define ecology. Level 2: Compare and contrast the carbon and nitrogen cycles. Level 3: Predict how climate change could impact local ecosystems over the next 50 years. Tissue Level 1: Name the four main types of tissue found in the human body. Level 2: Explain the role of connective tissue in the body. Level 3: Imagine you could design an artificial tissue - how might it differ from natural tissue? Agenda Level 1: What are the key items typically included on a meeting agenda? Level 2: Analyze why an agenda is an important tool for keeping a meeting

1. Costa’s Level of Question
and Thinking

2. LEVEL 1 - Book Only
• The answer can be found in the text (either
directly or indirectly).
• Texts include books, lectures, or straight
from the horse’s mouth.
• This type of question is very concrete and
pertains only to the text; it asks for facts
about what has been heard or read.
Information is recalled in the exact
manner/form it was heard.

3. Level 1 Words - Book Only
• Complete
• Define
• List
• Name
• Select

4. LEVEL 2 - Book & Brain
• The answer can be inferred from the text.
• This type question, although more abstract than a level one
question, still relies on the facts. With a level two question,
the brain has to use the facts. Answers combine
information in a new way.
• Information can be broken down into parts; it involves
examining in detail, analyzing motives or causes, making
inferences, finding information to support generalizations or
decision-making.

5. Level 2 Words - Book & Brain
• Compare
• Sort
• Explain (why)
• Analyze
• Synthesize
• Sequence

6. • Analyze – examine, study, investigate,
scrutinize
• Synthesize – create, make, produce,
combine

7. LEVEL 3 - Brain Only
• The answer goes beyond the text.
• This type of question is abstract and does
not pertain directly to the text. These
questions ask that judgments be made
from information. They also give opinions
about issues, judge the validity of ideas or
other products and justify opinions and
ideas.

8. Level 3 Words - Brain Only
• Evaluate
• Predict
• Imagine
• Hypothesize
• Apply
• Judge

9. • Hypothesize – imagine, assume, theorize
• Evaluate – assess, estimate, weigh
• Apply – relate, use
• Judge – critic, evaluate
• Imagine – envision, picture, visualize

10. Practice
• What will Atlanta’s population be like in
2050 if we continue to grow as we have
for the past ten years?
• What is the definition of a trapezoid?
• Name the elements that make up water.

11. Practice
• Imagine that you were in the character’s
position, how would you react?
• Distinguish one candidate’s platform from
that of the other candidate.
• Recite the Preamble of the US
Constitution.

12. Practice
• What happened to the litmus paper when
inserted in the liquid?
• Create an invention that uses at least
three types of simple machines.
• Analyze the character's intentions in
the scene.

13. Practice Your Turn!
– Directions:
– Create three questions (one - level one; one
- level two; one - level three) for each of the
following topics:
1. Ecology
2. Tissue
3. Agenda
-Record your answers on the provided graphic
organizer.