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Curriculum-Framing Questions
How can I create more effective questions? How can these questions help guide my teaching and unit
planning?
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their learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity so we should provide them with more challenging tasks and questions than provided in traditional projects. synthesis of the subject matter not just identification, definition, or reiteration of facts.
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It promotes authentic learning, which encourages students to ask more questions. Students are more likely to become self-directed learners because they are interested in the answers. Students see the connections between the subject being taught and their worldit can change their whole outlook on what education is about.
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Teaching for understanding is key to recall Instead of aimless activity and superficial coverage, focus on goals related to big ideas and complex performance Move beyond micro-managing instruction via overly-fragmented and isolated lessons and activities
From Understanding by Design Workshop
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Students will be able to identify an ecosystem and explain how the How do I collect information and display it in a graph? What urban animals are there and what do they need to survive? How can urban wildlife and humans live together successfully? How can we all get along? Using actual wildlife injury data from a local wildlife rescue center,
students learn what animal species have been injured, the causes of injury, and the effects of reduced urban wildlife. Students provide recommendations to reduce human caused injury to wildlife and present a summary of their findings and recommendations to the local Audubon Society, the Humane Society, neighborhood associations, and other interested groups. At the end of each public presentation, students gather public reaction to the data, and publish the findings and ideas in an informational brochure for the public.
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Its not the question itself that defines whether it is an Essential or Unit Question, its how you use it. How does conflict produce change? could be used as either an Essential or Unit Question:
It would be an Essential Question if used as a year-long guiding question in a Social Studies class that covers such units as World Explorers, the Industrial Revolution, World War II, etc.
It would also be an Essential Question if it is used in a cross-curricular classroom or classrooms, such as language arts/social studies classrooms that discuss different aspects of the question.
It could be a Unit Question if used just within a specific unit, such as evolution.
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Social Studies Unit Question: How does war create change in the economy? Language Arts Unit Questions: Science Unit Question: In literature, how do the
characters in Lord of the Flies respond to conflict?
How does Lord of the Flies help us to understand our complex human nature?
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Brainstorm questions on your own, then work with other teachers, or your own students, to refine them. There tend to be more How and Why Essential and Unit Questions than those beginning with What, Who, or When.
Stay away from questions asking for definitions or an understanding of a simple process.
Ask yourself if the question has basically only one, or one narrow group, of correct answersif it does, it is not an Essential or Unit Question.
What is the life cycle of a frog? Who was Mozart?
Is the question still being studied by scientists, philosophers, or poets? If yes, then you probably have a great question.
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Think about why that topic is important to teach. Think about the compelling questions that scholars have asked throughout time. How have human beings acquired the knowledge that we now want to impart to our students?
Why is the universe the way it is?
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What is the end product, the learning objectives, that you want students to achieve?
What will students be able to know, do, and understand as a result of this experience?
Revisit Questions Step 1a: Determine Goals
What open-ended Unit Question could be asked to promote higher-order thinking skills?
What CS are you targeting? What higher-order thinking skills are you targeting?
Re-check goals
Are your questions still relevant? Can they be revised to be more helpful in focusing student learning and activities?
Step 4: Design Activities
What big-picture Essential Question could be asked to promote higher-order thinking skills?
What rich learning experiences, activities, and teaching will promote that learning? How will you engage your students? Copyright 2006, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
How will students provide evidence that they are achieving understanding? How will you assess that evidence throughout the unit?
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