Module+3

Essential Questions: Curriculum-Framing Questions help students find deeper meaning as they work on projects. In this module, you discuss the general types of questions used in the classroom, practice with and create Curriculum-Framing Questions for your own classroom, and reflect on how these questions can affect and support deeper thinking.

Learn about Questioning - [] Sample Curriculum Framing Questions: Curriculum Framing Questions Rubric: Big Idea Concepts: Writing Your Own Questions:

Module 3 Key Points:
 * Closed questions that ask students to understand facts and procedures are important, but if students do not frame those facts within a conceptual understanding, the interconnectedness and patterns of those ideas will often be lost. Curriculum-Framing Questions help to provide a conceptual understanding.
 * Curriculum-Framing Questions can be created from the bottom up (content-specific ideas to the big idea) or the top down (big idea to the content-specific ideas). They consist of:
 * Essential Questions, the overarching big idea questions that help students see the big picture across units or disciplines
 * Unit Questions, the open-ended questions that support the exploration of one part of the Essential Question
 * Content Questions, the supporting, fact-focused questions required to understand and begin to answer the Essential and Unit Questions
 * Curriculum-Framing Questions are used throughout a unit to focus learning on important concepts and to promote higher-order thinking.

Accomplishments:
 * Gained a greater understanding of Curriculum-Framing Questions through examples, discussion, and practice

Assignment:
 * Create a set of Curriculum-Framing Questions for my Unit Plan Template, which include the Essential Question, Unit Questions and Content Questions.