Creating Unit Plans!

Unit Plan

Is the largest segment of teaching a key idea, a skill, an attitude or a value. May consist of 4 weeks to a semester. 

Evaluation

Significance, Coherence and Relevance.

Types of Unit Plans

Descriptive Content-focused - Acquisition of knowledge. 

Thinking Skills-focused - Greater content, less process, developing inquiry, thinking skills.

Theme-focused - cut across SS topics and integrate other subject areas.

Problem-solving - attempt to solve an issue or a problem relevant to an individual, a group or a society as a whole. 

Planning wheel

This is a good way to organize information for making a lesson plan.

Example below!

Wheel Design

1. Start with Social Studies topics in the outermost ring. 

2. Add subjects (Science, ELA, Math, Arts, etc.)

This is just one of many ways you can organize the information you have/need.

Structure?

There are several things that need to be included in your unit plan. 

• Introduction (Overview and Rationale of lesson)
•  Goals, Standards, Objectives
• Subject Matter Outline (traditional and/or graph)
• Starting the Unit (3-5 activities)
• Lessons 
• Culminating Project
• Evaluation
• Resources
• Reflection (impact on the student learning)