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= = = = = = = Understanding by Design/ Backwards Design Resources = = = = **Check out these websites for lots of ideas about Big Ideas and Essential Questions:** =

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= This article includes many examples of Big Ideas, Enduring Understandings: =

= This article includes many examples of Essential Questions for Social Studies: =

= This Wiki offers lots of good suggestions for unwrapping the Standards and transforming them into Big Ideas and Essential Questions: = = [] =

= **These websites about Essential Questions come highly recommended by Grant Wiggins on his website:** = =**[]**=

Edge is a very cool a site, about cutting edge ideas and thinkers. The second link takes you to the questions top thinkers were asking in their work a few years ago: [] []

from Jamie McKenzie, an early proponent of working via questions: []

from From Now On FNO.ORG - A Questioning Toolkit: []

from Horace (Coalition of Essential Schools) - an old article on my work for CES on essential questions: []

Dramatica is software to help novelists and screenplay writers. Here is a cool set of plot-writing questions: []

from Richard Paul and the Critical Thinking Institute: []

Science Qs for Small Children  []

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">An Essential Questions Resource Site, developed by a teacher: <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> []

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Advice to students on asking EQs in their research, from library media specialists: <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">[]

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">NJ Standards Clarification Project - a rich resource <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">We helped design teams develop essential questions and understandings for all nine subject areas in NJ: <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">[]

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Delaware State Standards Clartification Project: we also helped Delaware conduct its own Standards project: <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Social studies: <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Math: <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">[]

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">District and School Essential Questions

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Derry School: 150 math EQs <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">[]

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Glastonbury, CT Foreign Language Dept EQs: <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">[]

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Grand Island, NE: K-12 EQs and EUs for most program areas <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">[]

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Greece ELA: great site, with rubrics, themes, and EQs for writing grades 6-12: <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">[]

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Key School, MD: EQs and EUs in Math <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">[]

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Montgomery Cty, MD: <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> sample 1st and 8th grade units: <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">[]

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Simsbury CT: Teacher EQ Self-assessment Rubric <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">[]