This document discusses essential questions, capacity matrices, and Q-charts. It describes using thinking skills like description, definition, details, compare/contrast, cause/effect, and sequence of events to build questions from learning targets. Students can choose from circle maps, double bubble maps, multi-flow maps, tree maps, and fishbone maps as tools. Students then self-select which group to join each day based on their capacity matrix. Background questions are classified as "right there" or "think and search" while essential questions are "in your head".

1. Essential Questions and Building Your Own Groups

2. Thinking Skills 3D: Description/Definition/Details Compare/Contrast Cause/Effect Sequence of Events Classify Tools Needed Circle Map Double Bubble Map Multi Flow Map Tree Map Fishbone Map Whys Question Bank

3. Building connections between Q-Chart and your Capacity Matrix “Right There” or “Think and Search” From your G-and R-readings Questions that require you to use your tool box graphics and information from Direct Instruction or Shared Instruction with a teacher or another student

4. Thinking Skills 3D: Description/Definition/Details Compare/Contrast Cause/Effect Sequence of Events Classify Step 1: Choose from any of the Learning Targets and decide: What thinking skill would I use to know this Learning Target? Step 2: Use the Q-Chart to build questions based on what thinking skill you identified in Step 1

5. Background Questions-Right There, Think and Search: Essential Questions-In Your Head:

6. Step 3: Building a Question Bank

7. Michele Tells Us About Essential Questions, Capacity Matrixs and Q-Charts

8. Bullets 3: People: Scientific and technological changes and new forms of energy (e.g., the inventions and discoveries of James Watt, Eli Whitney, Henry Bessemer, Henry Cort, Thomas Edison) Term…verb…category…characteristics Three tools to choose from:

9. Student Self-Select Each Day What Group To Join Based On The Following Matrix: