What is Essential Understanding?
Wiggins and McTighe describe enduring understandings as "the other side of the coin" of essential questions. Enduring understandings should generally be linked to essential questions, and should be a takeaway that we wish for all students at the conclusion of a lesson, unit, or course. Note that this does not have to be a 1:1 relationship-- there can be several understandings per question or vice versa.
BIG IDEA: Disasters, in any form, can challenge a person’s will to survive.
ESSENTIAL UNDERSTANDING: A crisis can test your spirit to survive and show your true character.
ESSENTIAL UNDERSTANDING: A crisis can test your spirit to survive and show your true character.