Concept+Based+Instruction

=Concept Based Instruction = A ** concept ** is a general notion, state of being, idea, condition, or action What is concept based instruction? [|Check out this Prezi for a brief refresher!] [|Concept Based Instruction Organizer] **Examples of Concepts** Accommodation Adaptation Adventure Aggression Altruism Angle Art Assertiveness Attraction Average <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Balance <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Beauty <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Being <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Belief <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Bravery <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Caring <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Causation <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Cell <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Change <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Chaos <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Charity <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Cheer/Cheerfulness <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Citizenship <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Civilization <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Class <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Clone <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Collective <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Color <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Communication <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Communism <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Compassion <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Competition <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Conflict <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Connection <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Consideration <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Consumption <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Cooperation <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Cost <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Courage <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Courtesy <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Culture <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Custom/Convention <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Creativity || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Cycles <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Death <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Decision-making <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Democracy <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Desire <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Determination <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Diversity <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Division of Labor <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Domains <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Dreams <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Duty <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Ecosystems <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Efficiency <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Emotion <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Empathy <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Energy <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Entropy <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Equality <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Equilibrium <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Errors <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Eternity <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Ethics <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Ethnocentrism <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Evil <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Evolution <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Excellence <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Exploration <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Fairness <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Faith <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Faithfulness <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Family <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Fate <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Fitness <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Flexibility <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Force <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Form <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Freedom <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Fun <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Function <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Gender <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Genius <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">God <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Goodness <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Good and Evil || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Government <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Grace <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Happiness <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Harmony <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Heat <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Help <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Helpfulness <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Homeostasis <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Humility <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Honor <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Hope <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Human Nature <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Human Virtue <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Humor <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Identity <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Imagination <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Immigration <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Immortality <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Impact <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Individual <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Industry <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Infinity <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Ingenuity <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Inspiration <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Institution <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Invention <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Interdependence <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Journey <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Judgement <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Justice <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Kindness <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Knowledge <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Labor <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Language <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Law <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Leadership <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Liberty <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Life <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Life and Death <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Limits <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Lines <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Location <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Logic <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Love || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Loyalty <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Machines <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Management <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Markets <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Matter <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Measurement <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Melody <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Migration <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Mind <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Monarchy <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Money <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Morality <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Morals <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Motivation <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Mutation <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Mutualism <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Nature <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Negatives <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Negativity <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Numbers <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Odds <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Obedience <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">One vs. Many <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Order <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Order vs. Chaos <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Organization <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Ownership <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Parasites <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Patience <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Patriotism <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Patterns <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Part/whole <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Past/present <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Peace <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Perseverance <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Perspective <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Pitch <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Pleasure vs. Pain <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Politeness <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Population <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Positive <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Positivity <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Power <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Prejudice || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Probability <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Productivity <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Progress <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Property <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Proportion <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Quests <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Racism <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Rates <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Ratios <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Reaction <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Reason <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Recycle <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Reflection <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Regions <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Relationships <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Reliability <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Reproduction <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Resources <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Responsibility <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Reverence <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Revolution <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Rights <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Risk <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Rhythm <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Roles <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Rules <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Savings <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Scale <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Science <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Self <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Sense <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Sensitivity <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Sexism <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Signs and Symbols <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Sin <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Sincerity <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Socialism <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Soul <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Space <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Speed <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Specialization <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">State <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Status
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Action

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Stress || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Structures <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Supply & Demand <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Symbiosis <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Symmetry <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Synergy <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Systems <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Technology <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Temperature <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Tempo <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Terrorism <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Texture <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Theology <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Theory <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Thrift <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Timbre <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Time <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Tolerance <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Tone <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Tool <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Totalitarianism <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Transfer <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Transformation <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Transitions <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Transportation <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Trust <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Trustworthiness <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Truth <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Tyranny <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Universe <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Validity <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Value <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Variation <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Vector <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Virtue <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Wants <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Wealth <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Wellness <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Will <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Wisdom <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">World ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Adapted from “Themes and Essential Questions for Curriculum and Assessment,” ASCD, 2002