developing your unit content map with essential questions
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Developing Your Unit Content Map with Essential Questions. What are the key concepts?. How can I help students see how ideas fit together?. How do I stimulate inquiry learning?. By Sherah B. Carr, Ph.D. Revised from MRESA Best Practices Modules. A Puzzling Task. Puzzling Questions. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Developing Your
Unit Content Map
with Essential Questions
How can I help students
see how ideas fit
together?
What are the key
concepts?
How do I stimulate inquiry
learning?By Sherah B. Carr, Ph.D.
Revised from MRESA Best Practices Modules
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What strategies did your group use to put the puzzle together?
What was missing that would have helped?
What happen when you had a mental picture of the outcome?
What happen with more advanced puzzles?
What happen when you had vocabulary?
How is putting a puzzle together like developing a content map?
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CONTENT MAPS: Why are they so important?
Communication device
Conceptualize a unit
Enable consistent curriculum pacing and planning
Highlight important vocabulary
Enable students to "see" the knowledge gained over time and their learning
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Content Mapping Key Points
• Content maps help students see mental schemas of information
• Content maps show how ideas fit together
• Use kid friendly terms and writing
• Include key vocabulary for the unit
• Post in your room or give students a copy
• For young children or ESOL you can simplify with main ideas and pictures.
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Concept Concept Concept Concept Concept
Unit Topic:
Subject: Topic: Grade Level:
Unit Essential Question:
Lesson essential
question(s)
Lesson essential
question(s)
Lesson essential
question(s)
Lesson essential
question(s)
Lesson essential
question(s)
Key Vocabulary:
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Content Map of UnitExamples / Steps (Optional)Unit Topic / Name
Unit Essential Question
Key Components / Issues / Concepts / Skills
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Concept:
There are different kinds of shapes
Concept:You can write and read shape words.
Concept:You can sort
shapes.
Unit Topic: Shapes
Subject: Mathematics/Language Arts Topic: Shapes Grade Level: K
Unit Essential Question: How do you know the shapes around you?
Concept:
Shapes are alike and different
Where can you find shapes?
What are the names of the shapes you see?
How can you know a circle? square, triangle, rectangle, oval and diamond
How can you read and write shape words?
How can you make a story about shapes?
How can you sort shapes by kind? by color? by size?
Key vocabulary: shape, circle, square, triangle, rectangle, oval, diamond, sort
Concept:Shapes are
all around us.
How are shapes alike and different?
How can you use different shapes to create a shape city?
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What do I know about shapes?
Kinds Words Drawing Using
Circle
Square
Rectangle
Triangle
Oval
Sorting
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Content Map
How do I solve story problems quickly and accurately using multiplication?
Multiplication
Meaning & Models
Mental Math
Process
Times
Multiply
One digit
Application Relationships
Repeated Addition
Arrays
Symbols
Creating & Solving Story Problems
Estimating
Addition
Division – fact families
Patterns
Fact Mastery
10s, 100s
Compute Property
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Sample Content Map3rd Grade Math: Multiplication
Key Learning: Multiplication is a more efficient way of adding.
Essential Question: How do we use multiplication?
Meaning
LEQ(s):1. How can arrays help you understand multiplication?2. How is multiplication repeated addition?3. How can you use skip counting to find a product?
LEQ(s):1. How do you multiply factors to get a product?2. What patterns can help you remember the multiplication facts?3. How can we find errors in multiplying?
Real-Life Application Process
LEQ(s):1. Where is multiplication used in real-life?
Vocabulary:large lotsbudgetingfinding areashoppingIndustry
Vocabulary:arraysrepeatedproduct digitvalue
Vocabulary:factorsproductreversinglattice methodpatternserrors
Instructional Tools:Graph Paper
Multiplication ChartsCalculator
Real Life Problems(finding area)
Sequence Chart of Steps
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Content Map: Third Grade – Earth Science - Rocks and Soil
Key Learning(s): Understand what the earth is made of and how rocks and soil play a major role in our lives.
Unit Essential Question(s): What is our earth made of?
Concepts:
Character-istics of Minerals
Igneous, Metamorphic
, and Sedimentary
Rock Cycle Hardness of Rocks
Characteristics of soil
Characteristics of fossils
Un-Coveringfossils
Lesson Essential Questions:
What are minerals and how do we classify them?
What are the 3 types of rocks and how do I identify them?
What is the cycle of a rock?
How do we find the hardness of a rock or mineral?
What are the three types of soil and how are they different?
What are fossils?
What is a paleontologist?
Vocabulary:
LusterHardnessTexture
IgneousMetamorphicSedimentary
Cycle Mohs ScaleMineralologist
SandLoamClay
ExtinctFossil
paleontologist
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What is a seed? How does a seed become a plant?
What are the parts of a plant?
What does a plant need to live?
Unit Topic: Seeds and Plants
Subject: Science Topic: Plants Grade Level: 2
Unit Essential Question: What do we know about seeds and plants?
How do people benefit
from plants?
•Have shell
•Can travel
•Can vary in size and shape
•Need soil and water and light to grow
•Plant life cycle
•Plant growing experiment
•Identifying parts – root, stem, leaf, flower, fruit/seed
•The job of each part
•Comparing parts on different plants
•Soil, water, air, light
•Plant growth experiment
•Photo-synthesis
•Ways we use plants
•Plant parts we eat
•Other uses: fibers, medicine, paper, fuel, crafts, furniture, etc.Key vocabulary: seed, plant, soil, light, water, life cycle, stem, leaf,
flower, petal, fruit, photosynthesis, hypothesis, experiment
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Resources
• Georgia Performance Standardshttp://www.georgiastandards.org
• Carroll County Schools Content Mapshttp://carrollcountyschools.com/home/curriculum/curriculumcontent.htm
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Time to STRETCH!
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Essential Question What is the power of essential
questionsfor our students?
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• of the utmost importance : BASIC, NECESSARY, CRITICAL
• so important as to be indispensable: FUNDAMENTAL, VITAL, CARDINAL
Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition
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Essential Questions….Have no easy “right” answer; they are
meant to be discussed.Provoke and sustain student inquiryRaise other important questionsAre framed in kid languageAre simple!
Understanding By Design,McTighe and Wiggins
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Essential Questions….
Are objectives in the form of a question
Are posted in the classroomSet the focus of the lessonClarify what we want students to
know at the endLearning Focused Schools,Max Thompson
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Essential Questions Promote deep enduring understanding
Can not be answered with a yes or no, or even one sentence
Are engaging and thought provoking
Generally do not begin with WHAT (How or Why are better choices)
Heidi Hayes Jacobs
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Do these EQs invite the student to search for an answer through critical
thinking ????How does a lack of natural resources
affect a nation?How do we use symbols in mathematics?What are examples of scarcity in the
Americas, Europe and Oceania?What are the symbols for equality and
inequality?Why do you need to recognize an odd,
even, prime and composite number?What are even, prime and composite
numbers?
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Is open-endedCalls for understandingRequires critical thinkingProvides incentive for learningPromotes high student engagementProvides a way to measure interim
progress
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Is short answerCalls for definitionIs closed-endedSeems shallowFocused on what is not essentialIs too generalAsks for a memorized list
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Our best thinking usually happens out here
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Try to think the boxwhen writing Essential
Questions
Inventions = Mother NecessitySimple Machines = Work
Maps and Globes = Directions/LocationsGraphs = 1 Picture is worth 1,000 words
Meiosis & Mitosis = Life Cycle
outside
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Standard: General Science (Kindergarten)
• Recognizes individual uniqueness
What makes you special?
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Standard: Social Studies (Second)
• 9. Explain how money is used to facilitate trade and that people spend or save some or all of their available resources
How do we use money?Why do people spend and save money?How does your spending money help your community?
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Kid friendly language?
EQ: What are numbers and how do we use
them?
EQ: Why is estimation not an exact number
and when do we use it?
EQ: How is fiction used to organize and tell a
story effectively.
EQ: How do we recognize a fraction?
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1st Grade EQ: What is a noun?
2nd Grade EQ: How are nouns and pronouns similar and different?
4th grade EQ: How do readers and writers use nouns ?
5th grade EQ: How can nouns help you with comprehension and understand vocabulary ?
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Lesson EQ’sUnit EQ:
In nature, only the strong survive- what do we mean by strong?
How do some insects survive so well?
What is the value of predator /prey relationships?
What environmental characteristicswould determine survival a species?
How does nature control it’s own population growth?
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ESOL How do things change?
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ESOL
Why do people wear different typesof clothing?
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The EQ directs your instruction!
• Do I need to re-teach?
• Are we ready to move on?
•Revisit old EQs daily, •2 to 3 minutes.
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Essential Questions for you to ponder
Talk with your partner about the following questions…
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How might you use EQ’s when you teach?
How does it connect with your total unit plan?
How do EQ’s help engage students?
What part of writing EQ’s is most confusing or concerning to you?
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SUMMARIZEWhat are the main things to remember about content maps
and essential questions?