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Powerful questions that direct and focus student learning by allowing students to construct meaning and knowledge.
These are questions that touch our hearts and souls. They are central to our lives. They help to define what it means to be human. Most of the important thought we will conduct during our lives will center on such essential questions.
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Once you have learned how to ask relevant & appropriate questions, you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.
How do anthropologist know what happened thousand of years ago in ancient Egypt?
Where are the best locations for new alternate energy sources such as wind farms?
How is the knowledge of radical expressions and equations used to solve real-life problems?
Task:
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Form groups of three or four by subject, grade level or teaching team.
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Essential Question Rubric (Taken from Grant Wiggins, Jay McTighe, 2002) Is the work focused on important, engaging, arguable, Big Idea questions? Proficient The questions are important and thought-provoking. They require more than a single correct answer, promoting inquiry rather than recall. They have great potential for engaging students to hook and hold their interest They provide a unifying rationale and priority to the work. They keep the learning of facts and skills focused on the Big Ideas. Progressing The questions may be of interest to learners, but they do not focus on the most important and arguable Big Ideas and/or are too vague to guide learning and/or are too narrow and inconsequential. While they may not have a single correct answer, they do not seem likely to generate much in-depth investigation of the Big Ideas(s). Not Yet Meeting Standard The questions are leading questions, used more to point to answers than generate inquiry. There is clearly a single correct unproblematic answer to be learned via recall or simple practice.