big ideas and core content! 2. Provocative to sustain thought, discussion, inquiry, and new understanding and more questions.! 3. Require considerations of alternatives, evidence, and justifications.! 4. Stimulate vital, ongoing rethinking of big ideas, assumptions, prior lessons.! 5. Spark connections with prior learning and personal experiences.! 6. Naturally recur, creating opportunities for transfer to other situations.! Overarching Topical • Go beyond particular topics and skills • General, transferable understandings • Help students come to a particular understanding • (Provisionally) resolved Characteristics! Granularity! http://flic.kr/p/z6Ebx