Fifth Grade
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Welcome Creative Problem Solvers
I am so excited to begin this unit! There will be no thinking inside the box when you are involved in Creative Problem solving! During our time I will be giving you a variety of challenges that you will need to solve. Sometime you will work with a team, other times you will be with a partner or on your own. Each day you will be challenged to not give up, to try, and try again, and to look at things in a whole different way. Good luck Problem Solvers!
Welcome to Passion Project
Watch Kid President
Discuss what a Passion Project looks like...
Essential Questions- introduction Video
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Essential Questions are found at the top of the Blooms Taxonomy. They require readers to:
Evaluate: make a thoughtful choice between options, with the choice based upon clearly stated criteria
Synthesize: invent a new or different version
Analyze: develop a thorough and complex understanding through skillful questioning
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As you word your essential question the verb will tip you off as to what level of blooms taxonomy you are working in- try to use the suggested verbs on the top three branches of the chart below
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Examples of Essential Questions
-Which one?
*investigate and compare between two or more things to determine which is the most preferable option
-How?
*evaluate and propose a new way to do something
EX: What are some sustainable solutions to environmental problems in your neighborhood, and how could they be implemented?
-What if?
*hypothetical questions which ask you to use the knowledge you have to pose a hypothesis and consider options
EX: What if students didn't have to go to school?
-Should?
*make a moral or practical decision based on evidence
EX: Should we clone humans?
-Why?
*understand the cause and effect and get to the essence of an issue.
EX: Why is the death rate higher in one Third World country rather than another?
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Now it is time to create an Essential Question
to drive your Passion Project!
1. Begin with the 6 typical questions newspaper articles address: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?
2. From these questions formulate your essential question.
