Tip 54. Five ideas to show students why what we are learning today matters

Summary of all five ideas:

Sarah Cottingham has a great post about curiosity here

Christine Counsell describes the idea of hinterland knowledge here

Dan Meyer describes the headache-aspirin approach here

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