Building essential questions

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Essential Questions and Building Your Own Groups

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Maine July Sumposium Teaching Guide for Building Essential Questions

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  • 1.Essential Questions and Building Your Own Groups

2. Thinking Skills
3D: Description/Definition/Details
Compare/Contrast
Cause/Effect
Sequence of Events
Classify
Tools Needed
Circle Map
Double Bubble Map
Multi Flow Map
Tree Map
Fishbone Map
Whys Question Bank
3. Building connections between Q-Chart and your Capacity Matrix
Right There
orThink and Search
From your G-and R-readings
Questions that require you to use your tool box graphics and information from Direct Instruction or Shared Instruction with a teacher or another student
4. Thinking Skills
3D: Description/Definition/Details
Compare/Contrast
Cause/Effect
Sequence of Events
Classify
Step 1: Choose from any of the Learning Targets and decide:What thinking skill would I use to know this Learning Target?
Step 2: Use the Q-Chart to build questions based on what thinking skill you identified in Step 1
5. Background Questions-Right There, Think and Search:
Essential Questions-In Your Head:
6. Step 3: Building a Question Bank
7. Michele Tells Us About Essential Questions, Capacity Matrixs and Q-Charts
8. Bullets 3:
People:Scientific and technological changes and new forms of energy (e.g., the inventions and discoveries of James Watt, Eli Whitney, Henry Bessemer, Henry Cort, Thomas Edison)
Termverbcategorycharacteristics
Three tools to choose from:
9. Student Self-Select Each Day What Group To Join Based On The Following Matrix: