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= Essential Questions: = = the vehicle to mapping authentic Curriculum =

The beginning. . . ..

 * **How do we more deliberately stay focused on big ideas? **
 * **How can we take a mass of content knowledge and shape it into engaging thought-provoking and effective work? **

Moving along the path of understanding:

 * 1) **Understanding of Essential Questions **
 * 2) **Recognition of different Question Connotations **
 * 3) **Create individual sets of Essential Questions **

Accessing the Path

 * 1) Essential Question Definition
 * 2) Four Connotations to Essential Questions
 * 3) Designing Essential Question

Final idea:
We must give students work that enables them to have an “Aha!” equivalent to that felt by the scholar who first came to the understanding.

To understand is to invent - Piaget

Backwards Design Model of Lesson
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**Tools Used in this lesson:**
**Wikispaces** - www.wikispaces.com **Answer Garden** - http://answergarden.ch/ **Glogster** - http://edu.glogster.com **Google Docs -** []