Task Definition Chart

This table helps you straighten out in your mind what you KNOW

about a topic, what you WANT TO KNOW about it, and after you're

done, what you LEARNED about it.

On a sheet of paper, draw a table that looks like this:

What I KNOW What I WANT TO KNOW

 

What I LEARNED
Bears have cubs. How old is a cub before it is grown up?

 

 
Polar bears live where it is cold.

 

   
 

 

 

   
 

 

 

   

Now you can fill in the first two columns. Start with What I KNOW.

Put one thing you know about your subject in the first cell. For

example: I know that bears have cubs. So I put that in the first cell. I

also know that Polar Bears live where it's cold. I would put that in

the second cell.

 

What I WANT to know is, how old does a cub have to be to turn into

a grown bear? I would put that in the second column.

Finally, when I'm all done, I can fill out the third column and see how

much I have learned.

Print out a clean chart here.