Planning My Project - Activity 2

Developing Curriculum Framing Questions to Engage Learners

 

40 minutes

All teachers want their learners to develop higher-order thinking skills along with a deep understanding of content. Learners, however, may not find this knowledge relevant to their lives, especially when they study different subject / learning areas in isolation. Curriculum-Framing Questions connect learning in and across different disciplines by addressing topics that are interesting and important to learners.

Step 1: Understanding Essential, Focus, and Content Questions

Click here to read more about Curriculum-Framing Questions

But what are the right questions?

  1. As a group, view the Curriculum-Framing Questions Presentation - What Are They, and How Do They Help Teachers and Learners?

  2. View the following Curriculum-Framing Questions Rubric as a whole group.

Using an Online Collaborative Website to Practice CFQs

Online collaborative websites allow individuals to create or upload documents to the Web where they can then be edited using familiar formatting tools by anyone you invite who has Internet access. Some sites also provide the ability to edit and create presentations and spreadsheets. If you would like more information about using online collaborative websites in your classroom, read Web-based Collaborative Learning.

  1. Go to the online collaborative website provided by your facilitator.

  2. If necessary, create an account on the online collaborative website:

    a. Find the e-mail that was sent to you from the Online Collaborative website inviting you to collaborate on the spreadsheet titled CFQ_Practice.
    b. In the e-mail, find the link to the registration page of the website.
    c. Create an account on the site and record your login and password in the Login Information document.

  3. As a whole group, view Brainstorming Questions on the online collaborative site.

  4. As a whole group, discuss the first row in the spreadsheet.

  5. In a small cross-curricular group, complete one or two more sets of Focus and Content Questions with one person recording the brainstormed questions on the spreadsheet.

    Optional: Pick any other two to three sets of questions and fill in the blanks with your own questions.

  6. Share and discuss your questions with the whole group.

 

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