Designing K-12 Curriculum Around Big Questions

Update: 2010-07-26

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Jim Burke shares how, by organizing teaching around big questions, he's able to create curricular cohesion and avoid fragmentation by folding together skills, core content, and standards in a meaningful context that engages students of varying levels - even second-semester seniors.

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Designing K-12 Curriculum Around Big Questions

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Designing K-12 Curriculum Around Big Questions

Jim Burke

Designing K-12 Curriculum Around Big Questions