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?