| Description | Website |
| CHECKLIST: This checklist was designed by CECS 4100 instructors based on material in the Intel book and from other sources. It will hopefully help you with both kinds of questions as well as help you understand the difference between the two. | Curriculum Framing Questions Checklist |
| THEORY & EXAMPLES: Coalition of Essential Schools: Asking the Essential Questions: Curriculum Development. This website contains examples of essential questions as well as advice for further development of unit. Examples of units coming from an essential question are also presented. | http://www.essentialschools.org/cs/resources/view/ces_res/137# |
| EXAMPLES: Greece Central School District: Themes & Essential Questions: Framing Inquiry & Promoting Critical Thinking. This website has essential questions organized by theme and grade level. It also has other information pertaining to creating lessons and units. | http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ela/6-12/Essential%20Questions/Index.htm |
| THEORY: From Now On: "The material [on this site] first appeared in a series of six articles published by Technology Connection commencing in May, 1995. The series outlined the seven stages required to complete a full research investigation using a model called the Research Cycle." This website assists in the writing of essential questions. | http://www.fno.org/sept96/questions.html |
| THEORY: Galileo Education Network: Creating Essential Questions. This website offers many suggestions and guidelines for writing essential questions. | http://www.galileo.org/tips/essential_questions.html |
| EXAMPLES: This website has essential questions organized by grade level. | http://wwwgen.bham.wednet.edu/essenque.htm |
| EXAMPLES: Basing Learning Experiences in Essential Questions: This website has a list of essential questions as well as links to other helpful websites. | http://www.myprojectpages.com/support/mypp_essential_questions.pdf |
| THEORY: This page is a helpful page in thinking about writing essential questions. It has a lot of good info on what an essential question is and how to develop one. | http://mathstar.nmsu.edu/exploration1/unit/content_questions.html |
| THEORY & EXAMPLES: At the top of the page is a description of some of the characteristics of essential questions (some of these are the same as on our checklist). At the bottom of the page are some examples. | http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/teched/using/mod2less2quest.html |