When teachers inspire and cultivate curiosity they improve student engagement, increase intrinsic motivation, enhance learning, and empower students to become lifelong learners. This book uses both anecdotes and research to elucidate the potential that student-generated questions provide in the classroom. Readers will walk away with inspiration, as well as tools and strategies for creating a curiosity-driven classroom environment.Other books about questioning have tended to focus on the types of questions that teachers ask rather than those posed by students. They have helped teachers diversify their questioning based on depth of knowledge hierarchies, such as Bloom's. This book instead focuses on students' questions: what we can learn from them and what we can do with them to deepen learning.This book does not advocate that teachers overhaul their entire philosophy. Instead it provides an array of strategies for emphasizing inquiry, ranging from small tweaks that don't change the curriculum at all, to the restructuring of entire units. Every teacher will be able to take action based on what they read in Creating Curious Classrooms.The first section of the book is devoted to answering the question "Why Wonder?" We explore research and anecdotes that outline the many benefits of a classroom filled with curiosity, including: engagement, motivation, learning, empowerment, and formative assessment. The second section of the book digs into the variety of questions students ask, starting from the lowest rung on Bloom's taxonomy and ending at the highest. We discuss what teachers can learn from each question type, and how they can adapt instruction once each of these questions are asked. The final part of the book is a toolkit for inspiring wonder and curiosity in the classroom. We look at concrete strategies, big and small, for getting students to ask more questions and improving the quality and "wonder factor" of such questions. The strategies give ways to plant the curiosity seed through classroom environment and culture as well as curiosity-inspiring prompts and activities. Further strategies help students improve the quality of their questions and act on them.