Your Activity:

  • [Choose an image]

Step 4: Define the Understanding GoalUnderstanding Goal

Add an Understanding Goal to help students connect the curriculum content under study to a larger central theme of the discipline.

  1. Choose an Understanding Goal that will help students consider their learning in one class in relation to several disciplines.
  2. Think about how the Understanding Goal adds a real life or larger context for the specific content of the primary source image and skills needed to answer the Investigative Question.

Patterns help us to understand our world.

Communities help people.

Communication is effective when the message is received clearly.

People work together to accomplish things that they could not do alone.

People explore for different reasons.

Systems come from routines and acting on what's important.