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Curriculum-Framing Questions

Curriculum-Framing Questions. What Are Curriculum-Framing Questions? How Do They Help Teachers? How Do They Help Students?. Curriculum-Framing Questions. G uide a unit of study and include Essential , Unit , and Content Questions Encourage students to use higher-order thinking skills.

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Curriculum-Framing Questions

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  1. Curriculum-Framing Questions What Are Curriculum-Framing Questions? How Do They Help Teachers? How Do They Help Students?

  2. Curriculum-Framing Questions • Guide a unit of study and include Essential, Unit, and Content Questions • Encourage students to use higher-order thinking skills

  3. Why Use Curriculum-Framing Questions? To target higher-level thinking skills • To require comparison, synthesis, interpretation, evaluation, etc. To ensure student projects are compelling and engaging • To require more than a simple restatement of facts

  4. Why Use Curriculum-Framing Questions? To focus on important topics • To connect learning to other disciplines and other topics of study • To ask questions that have been asked throughout human history • To address compelling questions that students ask

  5. Content Questions • Fact-based • Concrete questions that have a narrow set of correct answers • Have specific “right” answers • Directly support content standards and learning objectives

  6. Examples: • What are the elements of music? • What is the difference of eastern and western music? • Why is it cold in the winter when the sun is shining? • How are volcanoes made?

  7. Unit Questions • They are open-ended • Have no single, obvious “right” answer • Demonstrate how well students understand the core concepts • Are tied directly to a project and support investigation into the Essential Question

  8. Examples: • How can we reconcile the differences of ideologies among a culturally diverse community? • How can music be used in promoting peace and camaraderie? • How can we enrich and promote the cultural heritage of our country?

  9. Essential Questions: • Are broad in scope • Provide bridges between disciplines and units of study • Address big ideas and enduring concepts • Are framed to provoke student interest • Have no single, obvious “right” answer

  10. Examples: • How can music change the world? • How does conflict produce change? • How can we all get along?

  11. How Do Essential Questions Help Teachers? • They help teachers focus on important topics in their year-long curriculum and bring meaning across subject areas: • They raise important questions across content areas (Math, Science, Literature, History, etc.).

  12. How Do Essential Questions Help Teachers? • They center around major issues, problems, concerns, interests, or themes that also occur in other units.

  13. How Do Essential Questions Help Students? They help to engage students: • They engage students’ imagination and connect the subject with their own experiences and ideas. • There is no one, obvious “right” answer, so students are challenged to explore many possibilities. • They encourage in-depth discussion and research, and set the stage for further questioning.

  14. Curriculum-Framing Questions • l Essential Question How are we interconnected? • Unit Questions Why are our oceans important? What problems do our oceans face? • Content Questions How does human activity change the shore? What are the three main groups of life that live in the ocean? What are some of the resources of the ocean and their uses? What factors contribute to the pollution of our oceans?

  15. Curriculum-Framing Questions • Essential Question How can we use mathematics to help us understand daily life? • Unit Questions How do numbers make our games more fun? How do statistics help us understand the game of baseball? How can we use statistics to help make decisions? • Content Questions What is the difference between a player's batting average and slugging average? Why is information often presented in graphs instead of just in a list or table? How do you choose the appropriate graphical representations for certain sets of data?

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