Characteristics of Driving Questions
- Frames the curricular unit
- Worthwhile
- Contains rich science concepts/principles
- Promotes higher order thinking
- Related to what scientists really do
- Complex enough to be broken down into smaller questions
- Helps link concepts/principles across disciplines
- Feasible
- Students can design and perform investigations to answer question
- Appropriate time frame
- Materials readily available
- Contextualized
- Anchored in the lives of learners
- Related to real-world problems
- Meaningful
- Interesting to learners
- Relevant to learners own lives
- Ill-structured/Open-ended
- Divergent
- No straight forward answer
- Complex
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