Curriculum+Framing+Questions+(Mod2)

Module 2, Activity 2

=Brainstorming Essential, Unit, and Content Questions = ====Curriculum Framing Questions (CFQs) tie the content of your class to other disciplines and events outside your classroom. They help students focus on the important ideas and develop a deeper understanding of the content material. ====


 * ====**Essential** questions are broad, open-ended questions that address big ideas and enduring concepts. They often cross disciplines and help students see how subjects are related. ====
 * ====**Unit** questions are tied directly to a project and support investigation into the essential question. Unit questions are open-ended and help students demonstrate how well they understand the core concepts of a project. ====
 * =====**Content** questions are fact-based, concrete questions that have a narrow set of correct answers. Often content question relate to definitions, identifications, and general recall of information-similar to the types of questions you would typically find on a test. Content questions support both unit and essential questions. (Unit 2, p2.05) =====


 * ====**Essential:** What is essential for life? ====
 * ====**Unit:** Am I really growing like a weed? How would you grow a big, strong beanstalk to reach the giant’s house? ====
 * ====**Content**: What are the basic requirements for life? ====

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For each of the following sets of CFQs write examples for the missing questions (red categories). Choose the **Edit tab** and then type in your examples beneath the category or the previous addition. It is ok to take another's idea and rework it. We're brainstorming. Essential questions are the hardest to write and content are the easiest. Which type do you use most frequently with your students or you've been asked by your teachers/professors? The type of questions we ask determines the depth of a student's learning .=====

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**Unit:**
How did the Irish potato famine effect life in the US? Why are people resistant to change?

**Content:**
Where did it occur? What is famine? What happen to the people? Is change always good?


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**Essential:**
How do human actions impact the plants and animals of tropical forests? How do the plan and animal relationships within a tropical forest affect the forest community? What are some of the positive effects of a rain forests?


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**Essential:**
How do properties of rocks and minerals determine how they are used? What are the three types of rock and how do they change? How many classes of rocks are there?

**Unit:**
How can rocks change over time? What are the types of rocks called?

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**Unit:**
How to mearsure and convert different types of items. Give an example?

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">** Content :**
How big is a foot? What does 1 foot equal to? How many meters equal 100 centimeters? What are irrational numbers?

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<span style="color: #ff0600; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Essential:**
What is American roots to music?

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Unit:**
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">What can music teach us about history? How does music inspire people today?

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Content:**
How is American roots music similar to American literature? What type of music is popular in your culture?

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 * Essential:**

Describe literature and the tone of the selected authors during the Civil Rights Movement.

What are some of the themes in Gil Scott Heron's poems in reference to the Civil Rights Movement? How did the Civil Rights Movement affect the language of literature?
 * Unit:**