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Essential Questions

Essential Questions. What is an Essential Question?. Questions that require you to make a decision or plan a course of action . (Evaluation-highest level of Bloom’s Taxonomy.) Questions that probe for deeper meaning and set the stage for further questioning.

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Essential Questions

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  1. Essential Questions

  2. What is an Essential Question? • Questions that require you to make a decision or plan a course of action. (Evaluation-highest level of Bloom’s Taxonomy.) • Questions that probe for deeper meaning and set the stage for further questioning. • Questions that foster the development of critical thinking skills and higher order capabilities such as problem-solving and understanding complex systems. • A good essential question is the principle component of designing inquiry-based learning.

  3. Avoid • "What is" questions • "What is AIDS” • "What is acid rain” • While these are important questions, they do not require that you make a decision or plan a course of action.

  4. Instead • Ask, "How can I reduce the likelihood of contracting AIDS?" (this requires a plan of action). • "What is the best strategy for reducing the impact of acid rain in the United States?" (this requires a decision among the various strategies).

  5. Essential Question Samples • Isit acceptable to clone humans? • Should animals be genetically altered to produce human proteins? • Should the remaining cultures of smallpox be destroyed? • What are the most effective steps for preventing breast cancer? • How can bananas be genetically altered show that they vaccinate the consumer against viral diseases? • Should the HIV virus be modified for use in gene therapy?

  6. A Supporting question is: • One whose answer provides the facts used to answer the essential question

  7. Essential Versus Supporting • "Should wetlands in the United States be preserved? (remember: essential questions require that you ask a decision-making or action plan question, this is an example of a decision-making question). • Here are supporting questions relating to the wetlands essential question: • What is a wetland? • What are the reasons for saving wetlands? • Why are wetlands being destroyed? • Who is destroying wetlands? • How many of acres of wetlands exist in the United States? • At what rate are wetlands being destroyed? • What are the best methods for saving wetlands?

  8. Activities to Support Essential Questions about Wetlands • Persuasive Argument for whether the wetlands should be saved. • PowerPoint Presentation • Publisher Brochure • Inspiration Web • Microsoft Word Document with Pictures • Each format should have evidence of all supporting questions.

  9. How do I know they learned the Supporting Facts? • Check for accuracy in presentation • Did they persuade you? • Self assessment • Create an assessment • Test

  10. More Information…. • http://www.biopoint.com/inquiry/ibr.html# • http://mathstar.nmsu.edu/exploration1/unit/content_questions.html

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