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This page lists a series of questions a teacher can use to probe for understanding and capability within students. These questions can be used to help teachers with formative assessment.

In this article, Jamie McKenzie speaks about the difference between an essential question and a demanding question.

This website has a small but interesting list of ways to begin questions, categorized by which level of Bloom's taxonomy you are looking to work in. This link takes you immediately to the question starters, but the entire website is worth perusing if you have a moment.

Inviting Student engagement through questioning. I took this link from Amanda's assessment link. This is a fantastic link!

This is a pdf. article that offers more information about writing essential questions.

Site of Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions for the field of social studies.

A cool website to use. This website has different trivia type questions and for every question you answer correctly they donate 10 grains of rice to end world hunger.

This is a great article! I took it from a link on Amanda's assessment link.

A great site to get details about disabilities you may need to accommodate in your class. Good resource for checking on legal questions surrounding Special Education, also.

I found these samples (based on Wallingford Public Schools) to be helpful for a foundation, but I don't know that I would use them as is for high school unless it was for an introductory lesson.

This is a website that is dedicated to sharing different creation myths from around the world. The company offers a cd that my school has purchased. We use the content in connection to our Geomythology integrated unit. It is great for visual and auditory learners. The cd includes text, questions, and extension activities.

For every right answer to a multiple-choice question (in vocabulary, math, and other subjects), the site donates ten grains of rice through the United Nations World Food Programme. Great for ages 8 and up!

This website is great for all ages! There are many subjects to choose from like Spanish, Maps, Grammar, Math, and every time you answer something correct, you donate 10 grains of rice to help end world hunger. Get your students involved today! It's healthy competition when you see who can donate the most.

This is a really interesting site!

This is a great website, with lots and lots of links to fantastic educational websites all around the world wide web. You click on a topic, and it provides a list of websites that have information about that topic.

This website provides much needed infomation to the popular question "Why assess our students?" It helps to break down the reasoning behind assessing students into various statges.