The next step in capstone after choosing our topic was to come up with questions. At first right away I knew my main inquiry question. I knew it from the first day we started this huge project. However Ms. Boyer told use that we need to elaborate our questions.
My main inquiry question, I had from the first day of capstone is, “How has aviation improved from the past few decades?” That is what I thought of on the first day. But, then Ms. Boyer made me elaborate. So then I thought to myself, Hmm, well I am thinking that the sub questions should be passenger satisfactory, safety and new technology. So other then that I went up to Ms. Boyer and asked her, I need some help expanding my main question. She said maybe It should be “How did aviation safety, improve over the past few decades?” BOOM, that gave me a huge lightbulb, I thought my questions should then include all the topics, so I brainstormed and tinkered with my questions and this was the final product, “How did aviation safety, customer service, and new technology improved over the past few decades?
After I created my main inquiry question, It was time to create my 5 – 7 sub questions. Ms. Boyer handed out sheets where we had to write out sub questions on, and It only had room for 5 questions, so I thought my goal for now Is to write 5 good, meaty sub questions. It took me like 10 minutes per question, because I wanted to make it perfect. I kept thinking and saying “no” in my head over and over again, until… I liked the question. The first sub questions I created is, “What inventions/technology made a huge impact on aviation?” Then I made my second questions after spending what felt like hours on it, “How has safety cards, oxygen masks and life jackets impacted aviation safety?” After I made each question I wanted my friends to grade it, because If I graded it, I would obviously say that each question is the best question ever. So I wouldn’t really help myself. My third questions is, “What inspired more customers to travel in the sky?” That question I just told you was my final product of that question, my original was, “What pulled more customers to travel in the sky?” Ms. Boyer thought it was odd to say “pulled” so I changed it to “inspired”. Now my next 2 questions were rated 1- 2 level, very broad and poor. So I had them changed a lot and here was the final product, (Question 4) “Which plane crashes helped experts learn more about aviation?” The original was, “What good did plane crashed do to aviation?” Ms. Boyer and my friends didn’t like the original question, so I had to spend a long time rewording it. My final question is, “What are future goals for aircraft manufacturers?” The original question was, “What is in store for aircraft manufacturers?” But, my friends didn’t like the original question, so I had it reworded.
Overall, creating these questions was very challenging and required many, many iterations.
