Big Ideas
Use these big, abstract ideas to go across content areas and get students making unexpected connections.
Introducing Universal Theme of Conflict
So what could you do with a Universal Theme of Conflict? Well, here's an introduction that will get your students' brains sweating.
Introducing Universal Theme of Change
So what could you do with a Universal Theme of Change? Well, here's an introduction that will get your students' brains sweating.
Introducing Universal Theme of Systems
So what could you do with a Universal Theme of Systems? Well, here's an introduction that will get your students' brains sweating.
Introducing Universal Theme of Power
So what could you do with a Universal Theme of Power? Well, here's an introduction that will get your students' brains sweating.
Generalization: Change Leads to More Change
Can you think of a time in your life when "Change lead to more change?"
Generalization: Order Can Be Natural or Constructed
Students explore this generation about how order can be both natural and created by humans.
Generalization: Problems Lead to New Rules, Which Lead to New Problems
Students explore this generation about how problems lead to new rules, and new rules lead to new problems.
Generalization: Systems Are Made up of Other Systems
Students will explore how systems are often made up of smaller systems (and are usually a part of a larger system, too).
Generalization: Unseen power, visible effects.
Can you think of times when power is unseen, but we can clearly see its effects?