Every lesson needs to have a RATIONALE...
Why is the lesson meaningful and useful to your students' lives? What do you want the students to take from this lesson? How would you justify the lesson to students, parents and administrators?
Why is the lesson meaningful and useful to your students' lives? What do you want the students to take from this lesson? How would you justify the lesson to students, parents and administrators?
Grant Wiggins & Jay McTighe's, 2005 book, Understanding By Design provides a process to design instruction with rationales.
Big Ideas E-Journal provides online articles and tools for exploring the essential questions in education. Check out Big Ideas & Essential Questions Prezi. An Enduring Understanding is a: a. BIG IDEA: Un-obvious & important inference b. MORAL OF STORY: Make sense of facts, skills & ideas c. REQUIRES UNCOVERAGE: not obvious to a novice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8F1SnWaIfE |
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Read Jay McTighe & Grant Wiggins'
Understanding By Design Framework & the 'big ideas' of UbD ppt.
Understanding By Design Framework & the 'big ideas' of UbD ppt.
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Essential Questions
What questions will guide learners to understand? Essential Question Guidelines: a. AN OPEN ENDED ANSWER (not true false, yes/no, or set answer) b. ARGUABLE c. AT HEART OF SUBJECT d. RECUR e. RAISE MORE QUESTIONS – Makes you say “Hmm!” f. PROVIDE ORGANIZING PURPOSE OF LEARNING g. ARE QUESTIONS OVERARCHING OR TOPICAL? Essential Question Website by Jay McTighe http://www.essentialquestions.org/ Samples Essential Questions as resource downloads from Jay McTighe http://jaymctighe.com/resources/downloads/ |
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SAMPLE ENDURING UNDERSTANDINGS
1. Great literature explores universal themes of human existence and can reveal truths through fiction. ***************************** 2. Quantitative data can be collected, organized, and displayed in a variety of ways. Mathematical ideas can be represented numerically, graphically, or symbolically. ***************************** 3. The geography, climate, and natural resources of a region influence the culture, economy, and lifestyle of its inhabitants. ***************************** 4. The relationship between the arts and culture is mutually dependent; culture affects the arts, and the arts reflect and preserve culture. |
SAMPLE ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
1. How can stories from other places and times relate to our current lives? ***************************** 2. What’s the best way of showing (or representing) _______? In what other way(s) can this be represented? ***************************** 3. How does where we live influence how we live? ***************************** 4. In what ways do the arts reflect as well as shape culture? |
See the Tips and Questions Starter Below for Assistance in Writing Essential Questions
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Read this North Dakota Teaching with Technology Summary of Backward Design at http://www.ndtwt.org/TWTYear7/Course/Y7Content/A02.htm
Key Questions
1. What is backward design?
2. “What do I want the students to understand long after they leave my classroom?” (Enduring Understanding)
3. How are essential questions used to frame the unit and engage students?
4. How do I write the instructional goal(s) and objectives?
Key Questions
1. What is backward design?
2. “What do I want the students to understand long after they leave my classroom?” (Enduring Understanding)
3. How are essential questions used to frame the unit and engage students?
4. How do I write the instructional goal(s) and objectives?
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS BY SUBJECT AREA from Jay McTighe & Grant Wiggins
Essential Questions in Language Arts - English
https://jaymctighe.com/downloads/Essential-Questions-in-Mathematics.pdf
Physical Education Essential Questions
PE Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions Resources
Wallingford Health K-12
https://www.wallingford.k12.ct.us/uploaded/Curriculum/PE_AND_HEALTH_K-12/Health_K-12_Enduring_Und_and_Essential_Questions.pdf
Health K-12 Enduring Und and Essential Questions
Jay McTighe Health & PE EUs & EQs
https://jaymctighe.com/downloads/HealthPE-Overarching-Us-and-EQs-.pdf
Comprehensive Health and Physical Education Mission Knowledge of health and physical education concepts and skills empowers students to assume lifelong responsibility to develop physical, social and emotional wellness. - Jay McTighe
Ewing PE 9-12 grades curriculum with EUs & EQs
https://www.ewing.k12.nj.us/cms/lib/NJ01001291/Centricity/Domain/13/PDF%20-%20Physical%20Education%20G9-12.pdf
Physical Education G9-12
Essential Questions in Science
http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/109004/chapters/What-Makes-a-Question-Essential%A2.aspx
Essential Questions in Language Arts - English
- What do good readers do, especially when they don't comprehend a text?
- How does what I am reading influence how I should read it?
- Why am I writing? For whom?
- How do effective writers hook and hold their readers?
- What is the relationship between fiction and truth?
- How are stories from other places and times about me?
- Whose "story" is this? And what is the evidence?
- How can we know what really happened in the past?
- How should governments balance the rights of individuals with the common good?
- Should _______ (e.g., immigration, media expression) be restricted or regulated? When? Who decides?
- Why do people move?
- Why is that there? (geography)
- What is worth fighting for?
- How is mathematics used to quantify and compare situations, events and phenomena?
- What are the mathematical attributes of objects or processes and how are they measured or calculated?
- How are spatial relationships, including shape and dimension, used to draw, construct, model and represent real situations or solve problems?
- How is mathematics used to measure, model and calculate change?
- What are the patterns in the information we collect and how are they useful?
- How can mathematics be used to provide models that help us interpret data and make predictions?
- In what ways can data be expressed so that its accurate meaning is concisely presented to a specific audience?
- How do the graphs of mathematical models and data help us better understand the world in which we live?
- What do effective problem solvers do, and what do they do when they get stuck?
https://jaymctighe.com/downloads/Essential-Questions-in-Mathematics.pdf
Physical Education Essential Questions
- How does physical activity affect my wellness?
- How do I develop an appropriate personal fitness program and find the motivation to commit to it?
- What can I do to avoid or reduce health risks?
- What influences my behaviors and decisions in terms of wellness?
- How can assertive communication skills help me to develop a healthy lifestyle?
- What do I need to know to make good decisions and stay healthy?
- How can I make good decisions and stay healthy?
- How can goal setting enhance and improve my health?
- How do social interactions effect my wellbeing?
- How can I make physical activity a priority during the pandemic?
- How does the food we eat impact our health?
- How did you take care of yourself today? What adjustments do you need to make for tomorrow?
PE Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions Resources
Wallingford Health K-12
https://www.wallingford.k12.ct.us/uploaded/Curriculum/PE_AND_HEALTH_K-12/Health_K-12_Enduring_Und_and_Essential_Questions.pdf
Health K-12 Enduring Und and Essential Questions
Jay McTighe Health & PE EUs & EQs
https://jaymctighe.com/downloads/HealthPE-Overarching-Us-and-EQs-.pdf
Comprehensive Health and Physical Education Mission Knowledge of health and physical education concepts and skills empowers students to assume lifelong responsibility to develop physical, social and emotional wellness. - Jay McTighe
Ewing PE 9-12 grades curriculum with EUs & EQs
https://www.ewing.k12.nj.us/cms/lib/NJ01001291/Centricity/Domain/13/PDF%20-%20Physical%20Education%20G9-12.pdf
Physical Education G9-12
Essential Questions in Science
- What makes objects move the way they do?
- How are structure and function related in living things?
- Is aging a disease?
- Why and how do scientific theories change?
- How can we best measure what we cannot directly see?
- How do we decide what to believe about a scientific claim?
- What should I do in my head when trying to learn a language?
- How can I express myself when I don't know all the words (of a target language)?
- What am I afraid of in hesitating to speak this language? How can I overcome my hesitancy?
- How do native speakers differ, if at all, from fluent foreigners? How can I sound more like a native speaker?
- How much cultural understanding is required to become competent in using a language?
- How can I explore and describe cultures without stereotyping them?
- What can artworks tell us about a culture or society?
- What influences creative expression?
- To what extent do artists have a responsibility to their audiences?
- Do audiences have any responsibility to artists?
- What's the difference between a thoughtful and a thoughtless critique?
- If practice makes perfect, what makes perfect practice?
http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/109004/chapters/What-Makes-a-Question-Essential%A2.aspx