Learn how to build and use meaningful essential questions
Discover hundreds of essential question examples for every curricular area
Understand the connections between the curriculum content and the questions that uncover the purpose
Engage your learners in rich conversation
Drive deep understanding
Improve learning outcomes
Drive engagement with meaningful questions.
If the learning you are about to begin is the answer, what was the question? Questions are essential to learning. Without a question that needs to be answered, we lose relevance and learners are not engaged, struggling to connect to the purpose of the learning.
The BIG Essential Questions List features 301 essential questions categorized across nine topics. They are the kinds of questions that can drive us, haunt us, and move us to search for answers.
Build a lesson or full unit around one or more similar questions. Offer a daily or weekly wake-up question challenge. Pick one question a week to focus on and build a defining project around or use them in groups for exploring assumptions and openly sharing opinions.
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