Activity 13

Revising the Curriculum Framing Questions

Activity 13: Revising the Curriculum Framing

Questions

Step 1: Identifying Essential, Unit, and Content Questions

The questions in the Column 1 are a mix of Essential, Unit, and Content
questions. Identify each and re-write them in the correct spot in
Column 2.

Column 1 Column 2
• Where did these explorers Essential:
go?
• How did early explorers
change the world? Unit:
• Who are some of the early
explorers?
• What does it take to change
the world?
Content:
• What impact do explorers
have on their home country?

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• How can statistics lie? Essential:

• What are different methods
of showing statistics?
• Who decides for us? Unit:
• What is mean, median,
mode?

• What forms public opinion?

Content:

Step 2: Revising Questions

The questions below show Content Questions being grouped in with

Unit Questions. Participants must be able to identify which questions
belong where.

Not all questions within each set below are necessarily poor. Some are
a mixture of good and poor questions, which is typical. Choose 1 set of
questions. Revise these questions as needed so you have Essential,
Unit, and Content Questions.

Grad Unit and Essential Revised Essential, Unit, and

e Content Questions

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Essential Questions
How are the seasons
different?
Unit Questions
How do the seasons
1-3 affect our lives?
What’s it like right now in
other parts of the world?
How can we tell the
seasons are changing?
Essential Questions
What is the price of life?
Unit Questions
What are the
characteristics of African
animals?
4-5 How do animals in Africa
adapt to their
environment?
If you were an African
animal, which one would
you most like to be and
why?
Are all animals worth
protecting?
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Essential:
How does my environment affect
me?
Unit:
How do our lives change with the
seasons?
What’s it like right now in other
parts of the world?
Content:
What are the names of the seasons?
How can we tell the seasons are
changing?
How are the seasons different?
What causes the seasons?
Essential:
Unit:
Content:
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Essential Questions Essential:

Is it possible to live in the

twenty-first century and
not contribute in some
way to the destruction of Unit:
the planet?

Unit Questions
6-8
What recommendations
would you make for Content:
conserving and
maintaining a planet’s
natural resources?

What is ozone? What is

causing the destruction of
the Earth’s ozone layer?

Why is it important to
learn from our past?

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Essential Questions Essential:

Why should students
study Shakespeare's
time, writings and
theatre?

Unit Questions
What makes Shakespeare Unit:
10 - unique among the vast
12 numbers of playwrights
who came before and
after him?

Did Shakespeare really

write Shakespeare?

What was drama in Content:

Shakespeare’s
Elizabethan Era like?

How did the historical

context of Elizabethan
England affect
Shakespeare’s plays?

Step 3: Share with larger group

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