Invite your students to engage in projects such as investigating, writing, drawing, constructing, and composing in these self-guided critical thinking exercises. The units offer a wide variety of topics and skills, and can be selected for a particular student or a group of students. Units may be given to individual students or small groups who might benefit from a challenge. Student Self-Check sections follow each unit, supplying correct answers as well as ideas to provoke further thinking. Challenge your students to new levels of logical thinking and doing with this innovative resource.
What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high-stakes, standards-based environment? Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of Understanding by Design. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why the familiar coverage- and activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning. With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested approaches, this new edition of Understanding by Design offers teacher-designers a clear path to the creation of curriculum that ensures better learning and a more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike.
Invite your students to engage in these self-guided critical thinking exercises. This packet includes four units. Students will be asked to create similes, translate spoonerisms, write a cinquain, and more. The units may be given to individual students or small groups who might benefit from a challenge. Student Self-Check sections follow each unit, supplying correct answers as well as ideas to provoke further thinking. Challenge your students to new levels of logical thinking and doing with this innovative resource.
Invite your students to engage in these self-guided critical thinking exercises. This packet includes two units. Students will be asked to write a mystery story and an advertisement. The units may be given to individual students or small groups who might benefit from a challenge. Student Self-Check sections follow each unit, supplying correct answers as well as ideas to provoke further thinking. Challenge your students to new levels of logical thinking and doing with this innovative resource.
Invite your students to engage in these self-guided critical thinking exercises. In these two units, they will need to interpret reversed proverbs, solve story problems, and make predictions. The units may be given to individual students or small groups who might benefit from a challenge. Student Self-Check sections follow each unit, supplying correct answers as well as ideas to provoke further thinking. Challenge your students to new levels of logical thinking and doing with this innovative resource.
Invite your students to engage in these self-guided critical thinking exercises. This packet includes four units. Students will be asked to solve a story problem, write a poem, identify personification, and more. The units may be given to individual students or small groups who might benefit from a challenge. Student Self-Check sections follow each unit, supplying correct answers as well as ideas to provoke further thinking. Challenge your students to new levels of logical thinking and doing with this innovative resource.
Invite your students to engage in these self-guided critical thinking exercises. This packet includes four units. Students will be asked to interpret geographical comparisons, formulate equations, perceive geometric figures, and more. The units may be given to individual students or small groups who might benefit from a challenge. Student Self-Check sections follow each unit, supplying correct answers as well as ideas to provoke further thinking. Challenge your students to new levels of logical thinking and doing with this innovative resource.
Help children of all learning styles and strengths improve their critical thinking skills with these creative, cross-curricular activities. Each engaging activity focuses on skills such as recognizing and recalling, evaluating, and analyzing.
Invite your students to engage in these self-guided critical thinking exercises. This packet includes four units. Students will be asked to proofread, relate music to animals, analyze a weather forecast, and solve puns. The units may be given to individual students or small groups who might benefit from a challenge. Student Self-Check sections follow each unit, supplying correct answers as well as ideas to provoke further thinking. Challenge your students to new levels of logical thinking and doing with this innovative resource.
Invite your students to engage in these self-guided critical thinking exercises. This packet includes two units. Students will be asked to play a rhyming game with couplets and hypothesize about the future. The units may be given to individual students or small groups who might benefit from a challenge. Student Self-Check sections follow each unit, supplying correct answers as well as ideas to provoke further thinking. Challenge your students to new levels of logical thinking and doing with this innovative resource.
