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What's Really Essential?
 * Creating Questions to Make Historical Connections
 * Figuring out what really matters
 * Teaching American History Project to create curriculum maps
 * Offer a way to teach around thematic concepts while keeping your chronological curricular map
 * We want curriculum to matter. Making history meaningful
 * Over rely on textbooks to frame curriculum. Essential questions to guide planning.
 * Wiggns & McTighe report which ties questions to specific unit goals
 * Address the bi ideas, think broadly
 * Do not have right or wrong answer
 * Must allow for multiple interpretations
 * Review an understanding of cause and effect
 * Interdisciplinary Problematic
 * difficult to answer
 * EQ's reside at the top pf Bloom's Taxonomy
 * Why Use...a framework to use to construct their own understanding. For investigation as examine and own their own learning.
 * Choose 1 or more, trace, to 3 or more units. to review
 * Why do these in equitiie exist
 * consideer your wordking
 * How are groups treated differently?
 * what is the impact of the belief of equality
 * Use the same EQ's for the year
 * Make sure your questions are as pertinent to modern issues as to the past
 * Carefully select 3-7 EQs to use throught the year
 * Excercise shared with a list and then share in the restruction.
 * Essential questions forum on line
 * How to use EQ' effectively - provide multile perpespectives. Investigate through primary and secondary surces
 * Essential News Stories - use EQ's in every assignment. Canbe done online
 * Formulate 4 questions - to make it work add historical questions. HQ's for eachunti of study.
 * Find the topic relevant to time period/topic
 * EQ+ standard = HQ
 * HQ - articles of confederaton. Find the commonailties. Show connection, underline accordlingly
 * Add benchmark - review documents, forumulate the connectiion and see th specific...
 * Prove it exercise; EQ-HQ. Making sure they can back it up with evidence. Great prep for the organizer. HQ, openended
 * shdavis@washoe.k12.v.s