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ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS. How can I focus student attention and learning on the intent of each lesson? Based on the work of Marzano, Wiggins & McTighe, and Learning Focused Concepts, Inc. Unit Essential Questions:. How does fear threaten freedom? What makes weather a system?

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ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

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  1. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS How can I focus student attention and learning on the intent of each lesson? Based on the work of Marzano, Wiggins & McTighe, and Learning Focused Concepts, Inc.

  2. Unit Essential Questions: How does fear threaten freedom? What makes weather a system? How has technology changed society? How do rocks tell a story? Why is it called a web of life? What forces caused the rise and fall of the Roman Empire?

  3. Unit EQ: What basic values, principles, and events are the underlying foundations of American democracy? • Lesson 1 EQ: How did the factors that influenced life (economic, social, political, religious) in the different regions of colonial America lead to a new identity? (2 days) • Lesson 2 EQ: How did select documents play a role in our idea of self-government? (3 days) • Lesson 3 EQ: What events caused the colonists to take their new identity to another level and separate from England? (2 days) • Lesson 4 EQ: How was the Declaration of Independence a expression of self-government? (1 day) • Lesson 5 EQ: How did the defeat of the British in the Revolutionary War seal our definition of democracy?

  4. A Lesson Essential Question: • What? • the learning objective/standard/indicator in the form of a question • Why? • to focus the lesson • to communicate the objective • to clarify what students will learn • to gather evidence of learning

  5. Concepts or skills in the form of questions Purpose: Sets the focus of the lesson. Helps teacher gather evidence of learning (assessment). What Is A Lesson Essential Question? Key Points • Posted in the classroom. • There is only one essential question in a lesson. • Organize courses, units, & lessons around questions; the content of lessons answers the questions. • Based on curriculum • Allocate time to answer

  6. Writing An Essential Question • Make the teaching objective a question. • Students should be able to answer the question at the end of the lesson. • Write the question for the lesson and then, if necessary, rewrite the question for the students. • Question cannot be answered with yes or no. • Be careful of questions connected by “and”. • The question should match the lesson; the lesson should match the question.

  7. What NOT to do ... • List each day of the week and have a question next to each day! • Why?? • List all of the questions for a whole unit on the first day of the unit. • Why??

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