Curriculum-framing Questions

Curriculum-framing Questions

1. Essential Questions

   • Broad or General
   • Asked over and over throughout the lesson
   • Cross-Curricular
   • Sparks Curiosity
   • No obvious Right Answer
   • Meaningful / impactful to the student
   • Higher-level with deep meaning

2. Unit Questions

   • Use language the students understand
   • Provide personal meaning
   • Lead to higher-level thinking
   • Engages students to want to know more
   • Open-ended

3. Content Questions

   • Fact-based answers
   • Assists students in clarifying / obtaining info.
   • Build background information to develop new information