Driving Question

Driving Questions

...are provocative

...are open-ended

...go to the heart of a discipline or topic

...are challenging

...can arise from real-world dilemmas that students find interesting.

...are consistent with curricular standards.

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Essential Questions (Quoted from Understanding by Design Professional Development Workbook)

• Have no simple "right" answer; they are meant to be argued.
• Are designed to provoke and sustain student inquiry, while focusing learning and final performances.
• Often address the conceptual or philosophical foundations of a discipline
• Raise other important questions
• Naturally and appropriately recur.
• Stimulate vital, ongoing rethinking of big ideas, assumptions, and prior lessons.

3 Steps to a Driving Question

How to Write Effective Driving Questions for Project Based Learning

How to Refine Driving Questions for Effective Project Based Learning

Tubric - original Buck Institute Tubric for Driving Questions and an editable version to be used in PowerPoint

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