Friday, March 5, 2010

Essential Question


A question is "Essential" when it:

  • Causes genuine and relevant inquiry into the big ideas and core content.
  • Provokes deep thought, lively discussion, sustained inquiry, and new understanding as well as more questions.
  • Requires students to consider alternatives, weigh evidence, support their ideas, and justify their answers.
  • Stimulates vital, on-going rethinking of big ideas, assumptions, and prior lessons.
  • Sparks meaningful connections with prior learning and personal experiences.
  • Naturally recurs, creating opportunities for transfer to other situations and subjects.
 What is your essential question, catchy title, and key standards?

PBL Vision

It is important that take ownership of the information we learn. The words in this wordle image are what educators believe are part of PBL. Take some of these words and make up a definition -- a vision -- of what PBL means to you. You don't have to use all the words!!!

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

A quick Google Docs survey

This is your first task.
Visit my Google Form, answer the questions, and hit submit.