Content Question - What type of graph is best used for showing change over time? (The question limits the response to line graph only.)
Unit Question - How are graphs useful? (The question requires more thought and requires students to use what they know about graphs and displaying information to answer the question. However the question still pertains to the unit. It servers as a bridge between the content and essential questions.)
Essential Question - Why are numbers needed? (The question is truly global; it allows the students to make connections to other subjects and to their own lives. It is the over-arching question that connects the subject the students are being taught to other subjects as well as personal experiences.)
What about one essential question for an entire course? Examples: 7th Grade Integrated Science: How does structure affect things? Biology (9th grade): What makes life beautiful?
8th grade literature: How can literature teach us about ourselves and others? 8th grade writing: In what ways does the medium affect the message?
Curriculum Framing Questions
Questioning Techniques
**Elaborating, Hypothetical, and Clarification Questions**
See examples of different types of questioning techniques that can be used with students at all levels.
**Socratic Questioning**
Read about the Socratic Questioning technique and how to use it in the classroom.
Article on Asking the Essential Questions: Curriculum Development
http://www.essentialschools.org/resources/122#sidebar6
A Questioning Toolkit
http://www.fno.org/nov97/toolkit.html
http://www.fno.org/nov97/toolkit2.htmlPart Two
http://questioning.org/Q7/toolkit3.html Part Three
http://questioning.org/Q7/toolkit4.html Part Four
(List compiled by Jill Summers)
(Graphic supplied by Valerie Burton)
Example:
Content Question -What type of graph is best used for showing change over time? (The question limits the response to line graph only.)
Unit Question -
How are graphs useful? (The question requires more thought and requires students to use what they know about graphs and displaying information to answer the question. However the question still pertains to the unit. It servers as a bridge between the content and essential questions.)
Essential Question -
Why are numbers needed? (The question is truly global; it allows the students to make connections to other subjects and to their own lives. It is the over-arching question that connects the subject the students are being taught to other subjects as well as personal experiences.)
What about one essential question for an entire course?
Examples:
7th Grade Integrated Science: How does structure affect things?
Biology (9th grade): What makes life beautiful?
8th grade literature: How can literature teach us about ourselves and others?
8th grade writing: In what ways does the medium affect the message?