The Ageing Challenge: Essential Questions

To begin with Semester 2's work, we would be looking at eliciting some essential questions (EQ's) that would help to scaffold your project further in subsequent lessons. The following are the basic essence of what constitutes an EQ:

A question is essential when it: 

1. causes genuine and relevant inquiry into the big ideas and core content;
2. provokes deep thought, lively discussion, sustained inquiry, and new understanding as well as more questions;
3. requires students to consider alternatives, weigh evidence, support their ideas, and justify their answers;
4. stimulates vital, on-going rethinking of big ideas, assumptions, and prior lessons;
5. sparks meaningful connections with prior learning and personal experiences;
6. naturally recurs, creating opportunities for transfer to other situations and subjects.

[Taken from: http://www.authenticeducation.org/bigideas/article.lasso?artId=53]

By design, the big idea allows for the generation of a wide variety of essential questions that should reflect your interests and the needs of your immediate community. Essential questions identify what is important to know about the big idea and refine and contextualize that idea.

Please follow up with coming out with as many questions first bearing in mind the ideas or information that you already have thought of in the last few weeks, if any.