Our Purposeful Questions
1. What do you know about giraffes?
2. Do you think all giraffes necks are the same size?
3. Do you think giraffes necks were always long?
4. How do you think they got long?
5. Which of these two pictures do you think made giraffes have long necks?
(Show with cartoon drawings for Darwin and Lamark)
Optional probing questions:
If interviewee goes with a Lamarkian approach ask question regarding:
Body building?
Hair dying?
Breast enhancements?
If a dark haired woman started dying her hair blonde at a very young age, and later in life has baby, can the baby have blonde hair? How?
If a cow had spots like a giraffe and it had to reach into high trees to get food … would it’s neck get so long that it turned into a giraffe? Why or why not?
If a girl is born with blonde hair and she started dying it brown when she is still young and for years when she has a baby will it have brown hair or blonde? Why/Why not?
2. Do you think all giraffes necks are the same size?
- Why do you think that is?
3. Do you think giraffes necks were always long?
- Why do you think they have long necks?
4. How do you think they got long?
5. Which of these two pictures do you think made giraffes have long necks?
(Show with cartoon drawings for Darwin and Lamark)
Optional probing questions:
If interviewee goes with a Lamarkian approach ask question regarding:
Body building?
Hair dying?
Breast enhancements?
If a dark haired woman started dying her hair blonde at a very young age, and later in life has baby, can the baby have blonde hair? How?
If a cow had spots like a giraffe and it had to reach into high trees to get food … would it’s neck get so long that it turned into a giraffe? Why or why not?
If a girl is born with blonde hair and she started dying it brown when she is still young and for years when she has a baby will it have brown hair or blonde? Why/Why not?
