Like many teachers planning a new unit, when Luke and Morgan started planning a project to wrap up Grade 8 Food Sustainability for the term, they had many topics they wanted to highlight.
Pollinators 
Entomophagy (eating insects) 
Monoculture 
Pesticide use 
GMOs 
Food waste
We had all these cool ideas about things that are important for kids to learn about, but we didn’t have anything to hold them together.
Morgan Whitehouse
In curiosity-driven inquiry-learning, a driving question is used to engage students. It acts as a trigger to get your learners curious and interested in exploring the topic. Luke and Morgan were struggling to form a driving question for weeks, when Morgan joined in her grandfather’s 93rd birthday celebrations.
I had this epiphany: When my grade 8s turn 93, they may also be great grandparents and the year will be 2100! So, our project, Project 2100, will use the driving question, “What will food look like when YOU are great grandparents?”
Morgan Whitehouse
Inspiration for driving questions that inspire and anchor inquiry learning projects can come from anywhere! Where have you found inspiration for your inquiry projects and what are some of the driving questions you have used!