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DRIVING QUESTIONS Traditional What is the Bill of Rights? If a person makes $25,000 a year, how long will it take him or her to make a million dollars? What is an atom? Who was the last emperor during the Ming Dynasty? What is the order of colors in the rainbow? Project Based Learning

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Page 1: DRIVING QUESTIONS Traditional What is the Bill of Rights? If a person makes $25,000 a year, how long will it take him or her to make a million dollars?

DRIVING QUESTIONS

Traditional

• What is the Bill of Rights?• If a person makes

$25,000 a year, how long will it take him or her to make a million dollars?

• What is an atom?• Who was the last emperor

during the Ming Dynasty?• What is the order of colors

in the rainbow?

Project Based Learning

Page 2: DRIVING QUESTIONS Traditional What is the Bill of Rights? If a person makes $25,000 a year, how long will it take him or her to make a million dollars?

DRIVING QUESTIONS

Traditional

• What is the Bill of Rights?• If a person makes

$25,000 a year, how long will it take him or her to make a million dollars?

• What is an atom?• Who was the last emperor

during the Ming Dynasty?• What is the order of colors

in the rainbow?

Project Based Learning

• In what ways does the Bill of Rights both grant and deny freedom?

• What does it mean to be “rich” or “successful?

• How has the discovery of the atom impacted science?

• How did the Ming Dynasty impact Western Civilization?

• How do you describe color to someone who is blind?

Page 3: DRIVING QUESTIONS Traditional What is the Bill of Rights? If a person makes $25,000 a year, how long will it take him or her to make a million dollars?

Criteria Does Not Meet Criteria

Problem Meets Criteria

Are open-ended

What is the weather like in Mexico?

Question has only one answer

How has the climate in Mexico affected the development of Mexican culture?

Are objective

Why is smoking wrong?

Question is leading

How does smoking affect our health?

Page 4: DRIVING QUESTIONS Traditional What is the Bill of Rights? If a person makes $25,000 a year, how long will it take him or her to make a million dollars?

Link basic skills and concepts to students’ lives and the real world

What is a law?

Question does not relate basic skills and concepts to students’ lives

How do laws affect how we live?

Page 5: DRIVING QUESTIONS Traditional What is the Bill of Rights? If a person makes $25,000 a year, how long will it take him or her to make a million dollars?

Encourages multiple ap-proaches to problem solving

How many billboards are in your neighbor-hood?

Does not allow for multiple ways to express the solution

Describe the features of a good advertis-ment

Page 6: DRIVING QUESTIONS Traditional What is the Bill of Rights? If a person makes $25,000 a year, how long will it take him or her to make a million dollars?

SAMPLE DRIVING QUESTIONS

1. Is our school safe?

2. Why can’t I have a dinosaur as a pet?

3. What makes a good commercial?

4. How can our school save electricity?

5. Should prayer be allowed in schools?

6. Does free speech mean you can say anything?

Page 7: DRIVING QUESTIONS Traditional What is the Bill of Rights? If a person makes $25,000 a year, how long will it take him or her to make a million dollars?

STARTERS

1. What makes a good _________?

2. Is ______really important?

3. What is the best way to ________?

4. In what ways did _______influence ________?

5. What would happen if ________?