Part 1: Meeting the Questions

01 Why is the question necessary?
02 Why should we teach questions?
03 What should we teach students to help them ask good questions?
04 How to Create a Culture of Questioning

Part 2: Getting to Know the Questions

01 Understanding the Questions
· Create a dictionary of question meanings
· Question Bingo Game
· I read my classmates

02 Approaching the question
Good questions, bad questions
· Question King Kim Gung-geum
· This time, try making a question using the word ‘how’!
· The question net we create

Part 3 Learning Questions

01 Create various questions
· Ask the author
· Closed and open questions
· Question, how far have you gone?
· Question Land Grabbing
· Answering a question that keeps going on and on

02 Look into the questions
· Find the best questioner!
· Stacking question towers
· Feel the weight of the question!
· Share your questions with the Gem Map
· Question-and-answer hide-and-seek

Part 4 Studying with Questions

01 Discuss with questions
· We are the final debate audience!
· Please answer this question with “yes” or “no” only.

02 Studying History with Questions
· At that time, something like that happened to them.
· They say that person has now returned alive.

03 Studying Art with Questions
· Ask the picture

04 Studying Math with Questions
· Seeing the world through the eyes of a mathematician
· Answering big questions with small questions

05 Studying Science with Questions
· Create a question map while reading a scientific article
· Q&A talk show while looking at photos
· Write an inquiry report by asking questions

Part 5 Living with Questions

01 Understanding myself and my friends through questions
· Ask questions about my studies
· My Emotion Magnifier
· Hey friend! I want to get to know you.

02 Participate in the community by asking questions
· Exploring community issues by building a tower of questions
· A better community created by our questions
· Asking questions to the world

Verified and applied in actual classes
33 Questions Activity

The authors, who currently teach students in middle and high schools and universities, draw on their experiences and research as educators to consider ways to easily approach questions, how to utilize questions to achieve higher levels of academic achievement, and how to reflect on oneself and one's surroundings based on questions.
And we refined this by conceptualizing it into specific activities and applying it to actual classroom settings.
The 33 activities introduced in this book are the result of that reflection and practice.

In particular, we wanted to introduce a variety of interesting questioning activities so that students could participate happily.
It features activities that students will enjoy, such as defining questions and creating a dictionary, recalling difficult or unpleasant questions and rewriting them into good ones, questioning a novelist or newspaper columnist, acting as an audience member questioning a lecturer, interviewing historical figures, and creating a list of questions to select good video content.
Furthermore, we provided guidance on how to apply activities differently depending on the level of the students or class.

All activities are presented with meticulously detailed step-by-step procedures so that they can be applied immediately in the field.
We also covered how to deal with problems that may suddenly arise during class and ways to work more effectively.
Each activity contains the following:

· Description of activities and guidance procedures
· Questions and activity results created by students during their activities
· How to deal with problems that arise during activities
· Play methods modified according to the level and characteristics of students and the nature of learning materials
· Students' impressions of their activities

This book is a continuation of 『Creating Fun Classes Where Students Ask Questions: Play Edition』, published in 2019.
While the 'Play' section focused on elementary school classes, this book, 'Middle School Activities', is characterized by introducing a variety of activities that take into account the level and classes of middle and high school students.
However, if you want to conduct an easy question-based lesson centered on play in middle and high school classes, you can use the 'Play Edition'. Conversely, if you want to conduct a more in-depth question-based lesson in elementary school classes, you can use this book.


This book will serve as a helpful guide for readers who dream of classes where teachers and students can communicate joyfully through questions.

Author's Note

Questions are an innate human ability.
It is also an instinct to understand oneself and others and to gain the knowledge necessary to live in the world.
However, it is truly unfortunate that as we grow older and grow, these abilities do not gradually develop and improve, but rather tend to atrophy and disappear.
It's our job as teachers to restore our ability to ask questions and to help and teach us to ask better questions.

When students create and answer their own questions, they actively engage in class, explore knowledge, and move toward true learning.
As the authors experienced changes in students and classrooms, they became convinced that questioning classes could be truly effective classes.
And now I'm happy to share the results with you, teachers.