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Example of a unit plan that uses Essential Questions

A video on probject-based learning hosted on the Educators PLN (a network for educators)

The Classroom 2.0 NING Group focusing on Project-based learning.

Introduction In 1937, in a talk titled The Future of Music: Credo, John Cage said, "I believe that the use of noise to make music will continue and increase until we reach a music produced through the aid of electrical instruments which will make available for musical purposes any and all sounds that can be heard ..." As a salute to Cage for his leadership in what Joel Chadabe called "the great opening up of music to all sounds", and in the spirit of the 100th anniversary year of his birth ... Invitation We invite composers, sound artists, and any interested person around the world to join us in the creation of 100 compositions that are based on recorded sounds of natural and urban environments. Creativity and originality are certainly central to John's legacy. So there are absolutely no guidelines except for the use of recorded environmental sounds as an important component of your composition.

Information on social constructivism - Beaumie Kim The University of Georgia

Information on using ipads for presentation displays in place of interactive whiteboards

Information on using ipad with apple tv in place of an interactive whiteboard.

Information on using iPads and apple tv in place of an interactive whiteboard

web-based

Evaluating Web Sites Scope: The purpose of this page is to provide guidelines that may be used to determine the quality and accuracy of the information found on the World Wide Web. (U of Maryland Libraries)

Five criteria for evaluating web pages (Cornell University Library)

A WIKI with resources on Understanding By Design

A teacher explains misconceptions about essential understandings and after clarifying the concept of essential questions, describes how they can be used for planning units. 

PDF file from May McTighe's website summarizing Understanding by Design

A guide for creating interdisciplinary curriculum using essential questions

Examples of Essential Questions

"BagTheWeb helps users curate Web content. For any topic, you can create a "bag" to collect, publish, and share any content from the Web. Beyond most curation tools' capability, BagTheWeb enables users to build networks of bags. This way bags can be linked together to provide rich and complete information about any topic. "

Suggestions for using graphic organizers in assessment