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ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS. “Great minds ask great questions.” How to Think Like Leonardo de Vinci by Michael J. Gelb . Getting Started.

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ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

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  1. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS “Great minds ask great questions.” How to Think Like Leonardo de Vinci by Michael J. Gelb

  2. Getting Started You have sixty seconds to discuss two questions with someone else in the room. When signaled, switch partners and discuss two more questions. Continue until you have made a decision about each question. You and your partners do not have to agree.

  3. Review of Unit Backward Design STAGE ONE: DESIRED RESULTS Established Goals: Understandings: Essential Questions: Knowledge (Students will know) Skills (SWBAT) STAGE TWO: ASSESSMENT EVIDENCE STAGE THREE: LEARNING ACTIVITIES/ACTION PLAN

  4. Why are essential questions important? • Create genuine and relevant inquiry into a big idea or core content • Provoke deep thought, lively discussion, sustained inquiry, new understanding and more questions

  5. Three Major Types of Essential Questions: ONE Important questions that recur throughout one’s life. Example: Is science compatible with religion? What is justice?

  6. Important questions that recur throughout one’s life. Take two minutes and write a “Type one” question.

  7. TWO Key inquiries within a discipline Example: Is any history capable of escaping the perspective of its writers?

  8. Within Various Disciplines Literature: Can fiction reveal truth? Math: When is the correct answer not the best solution? History: Is conflict between nations inevitable? Foreign Language: What distinguishes a fluent foreigner from a native speaker?

  9. Health: What is healthful living? Geography: How does where we live influence how we live? P.E.: Is pain necessary for progress in athletics? (“No pain, no gain.”) Science: How are “form” and “function” related in biology?

  10. 2) A key inquiry within a discipline. Take two minutes and write a “Type two” question.

  11. THREE Questions that help students make sense of complicated ideas, knowledge and findings. Example: In what ways does light act like waves?

  12. EXAMPLES NO YES How are the three branches of government dependent upon one another? Why is cloning controversial? Can an individual family make a real difference in terms of energy conservation? • What are the three branches of government and what does each do? • What is cloning? • What types of energy sources are common in homes?

  13. Misconceptions An essential question does not have a straightforward factual answer. Do not confuse what is essential to you, in your role as a teacher, and what is essential for student inquiry and making meaning of facts.

  14. 3) A question that helps students make sense of complicated ideas, knowledge and findings – that lead to discovery. Take two minutes and write a “Type Three” question.

  15. "What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question." - Jonas Salk

  16. SUMMARY:ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS… Are arguable and important to argue about. Recur--and should recur--in professional work, adult life, as well as in the classroom inquiry. Raise more questions-provoking and sustaining engaged inquiry. Can provide purpose for learning. Example: How did the reallocation of land after the Civil War impact the political arena? Example: How do authors’ use figurative language to create lasting impressions?

  17. ‘Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.’ - Bernard Mannes Baruch

  18. Next Steps Now work with others in your discipline to build new essential questions and refine old ones.

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