SCIENCE
1. Did you ever wonder where ice goes when it melts, or where a puddle goes when the sun comes out?
11.A.1e Arrange data into logical patterns and describe the patterns.
2. How do life cycles differ from one living thing to another?
12.A.2a Describe simple life cycles of plants and animals and the similarities and differences in their offspring.
3. How are sounds made?
12.C.2a Describe and compare types of energy including light, heat, sound, electrical and mechanical.
4. What makes a bad storm?
11.A.2d Use data to produce reasonable explanations.
5. Are we at risk from earthquakes here?
6. 12.B.1a Describe and compare characteristics of living things in relationship to their environments.
7. How can you make the world a better place?
13.B.1e Demonstrate ways to reduce, reuse and recycle materials.
HEALTH
8. What do our bodies need to be healthy?
23.B.2 Differentiate between positive and negative effects of health-related actions on body systems
SOCIAL STUDIES
9. What is the American Dream and to what extent is it achievable for all Americans?
16.A.5a Analyze historical and contemporary developments using methods of historical inquiry (pose questions, collect and analyze data, make and support inferences with evidence, report findings).
10. How has the American Dream changed over time?
16.A.1c Describe how people in different times and places viewed the world in different ways.
11. How and why does a nation decide to go to war?
14.E.1 Identify relationships that the federal government establishes with other nations.
12. If you could change the town we live in, how would you make it better?
18.C.5 Analyze how social scientists’ interpretations of societies, cultures and institutions change over time.
13. What is needed to start a business?
15.C.2c Describe how entrepreneurs take risks in order to produce goods or services.
14. What factors shape our values and beliefs?
18.C.5 Analyze how social scientists’ interpretations of societies, cultures and institutions change over time.
15. How would life be different if I was born during my grand parents generation?
16.A.1a Explain the difference between past, present and future time; place themselves in time.
ENGLISH
16. If you were the boy in this story, how would you handle the problem he faces? What are the traits of a good leader?
2.B.1a Respond to literary materials by connecting them to their own experience and communicate those responses to others.
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL
17. How are we alike and how are we different?
2B.1a. Describe the ways that people are similar and different.
18. What makes a good friend?
2B.1b. Describe positive qualities in others.
19. What makes for a fair punishment?
2D.1b. Identify approaches to resolving conflicts constructively
20. From cocoa bean to a Hershey bar, have you ever wondered how they made that?
15.A.2a Explain how economic systems decide what goods and services are produced, how they are produced and who consumes them.
Sources
http://questioning.org/mar05/essential.html
http://www.oakcrest.net/news/essential.pdf
http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ela/6-12/essential%20questions/Index.htm
http://connes.wcpss.net/pdf/Magnet/Second%20Grade%20Modules.pdf
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