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Acquire new info.
What does the "N" in GANAS stand for?
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Academic Standards outline what students need to know, understand, and be able to do
What do Academic Standards outline?
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Questions that are easily answerable with one sentence or response.
What is an essential question?
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Critical thinking skills are skills that are used in all subject areas and that students can apply in all educational, career, and civic settings throughout their lives
What are critical thinking skills?
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Safety
Interaction Supportive/Nurturing Environments Engagement
What are the 4 key elements of quality programming that MNC strives to follow?
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Academic Support and Enrichment Cultural Enrichment and Diversity Sports and Fitness Health Education Youth Leadership and Empowerment Social Justice College and Career Multimedia/Social Media/Tech
What are the 8 Core Program Areas in the MNC Curriculum Template?
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1. Stimulate Thought
2. Provoke Inquiry 3. Spark More Questions
What are the three main goals or what is the point in asking students an essential question?
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Yes all critical thinking skills are complex because they require the use of some degree of brainpower to arrive to a conclusion
Are all critical thinking skills complex? Why or why not?
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[Various]
Be culturally inclusive of different backgrounds
What is an example of a Supportive and Nurturing environment?
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Project Based Learning (PBL) is a teaching method in which students learn by actively engaging in real-world and personally meaningful projects.
What is a Project Based Lesson?
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No, they are not because you can still use them to check students for basic comprehension and understanding.
Are non-essential questions completely useless? Why or why not?
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[Various]
Ex: convert, describe, explain
What are three level 2 (comprehension) critical thinking skills?
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G - Setting Goals
A - Accessing Prior Knowledge N - Acquire New Info A - Apply Knowledge S - Summarize / Reflect
What does all of GANAS stand for?
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[Various]
Example: 8 week project on volcanic rocks from around the world where students build their own volcanoes at the end. Non-example: 1 lesson on volcanic rocks and then watching a movie about volcanoes.
Give an example of a project based lesson and an example of a non-project based lesson
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[Various]
Create an essential question and a non-essential question with your team.
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[Various]
Refer to Chart
Name one critical thinking skill from each level (1-6)
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Support every student by breaking learning up into chunks and providing a concrete structure for each. It relates best to N because kids will appreciate the chunking and breaking up of info to learn something new more easily.
What is scaffolding and which letter of GANAS does it best apply to?
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It is the ultimate goal for your lesson plan or project based lesson to accomplish at the end of the session or sessions.
What is the Unit Learning Objective for a Project Based Lesson?
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N/A essential questions can be inserted at any step in the curriculum process because the point is to use them to further thoughts, ask more questions, and generate curiosity.
Where in the lesson would the essential question be best utilized? (Warm Up, Main Activity, Reflection, Other?)
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critical thinking occurs when students are analyzing, evaluating, interpreting, or synthesizing information and applying creative thought to form an argument, solve a problem, or reach a conclusion.
When does critical thinking occur in a lesson or for students while they're learning?
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