Documentos de Académico
Documentos de Profesional
Documentos de Cultura
Feasibility
• Students can design an investigation to answer the question.
• Students can perform an investigation to answer the question.
• Materials for the investigation are readily available.
• The question is developmentally appropriate for the students.
Worth
• The question is related to what scientists or other professionals really do.
• The question is rich in content and concepts from the content area(s).
• The question helps students link concepts from the discipline.
• The question is complex enough to be broken down into smaller questions.
• The question leads to further questions.
• The question meets district, state, or national curriculum standards.
Contextualization
• The question is anchored in real world issues.
• The question has real world consequences.
Meaning
• The question is interesting and important to learners.
• The question intersects with learner’s lives, reality, and culture.
• The phenomena covered by the question are of interest to students.
Ethics
• The practices used to answer the question do not harm living organisms or
the environment.
Sustainability
• The question allows students to pursue solutions over time.
• Students can pursue answers to the question in great detail.
Scenario-oriented
• Students address a scenario or problem
• This approach often uses a proposal, design, or plan to address a contextual
problem they can relate to.
Research-oriented
• Students build knowledge through research and documentation
o This approach often uses a jigsaw and presentation approach to
address a broad range of content
Key Questions to Help Evaluate
Your Driving Question / Task
Goal: What is the driving question/task of
the project/unit?