Essential+Questions

**A question is essential when it:** [|-Grant Wiggins]
 * 1) causes genuine and relevant inquiry into the big ideas and core content;
 * 2) provokes deep thought, lively discussion, sustained inquiry, and new understanding as well as more questions;
 * 3) requires students to consider alternatives, weigh evidence, support their ideas, and justify their answers;
 * 4) stimulates vital, on-going rethinking of big ideas, assumptions, and prior lessons;
 * 5) sparks meaningful connections with prior learning and personal experiences;
 * 6) naturally recurs, creating opportunities for transfer to other situations and subjects.

Chart of questions for various grades [|Math Essential Questions Table.doc]

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