They will be the questions you will try and get answers for. The facts obtained by finding the answers to your foundation questions will be used to build the answer to your essential question. It is your job to craft an answer from these facts. You should try and write between 6 and 8 foundation questions. Here are the characteristics of foundation questions.
Lets try an example.
Again, the answers to these questions will provide the factual information required to build an answer to the essential question. Make sure to ask the questions which will give you the information you need. In the next step , you will use foundation questions to help you build a search strategy. Copyright Internet Innovations, Inc. 1999. All rights reserved.