Building Standards-Based Curriculum Units
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What kind of learning journey have we created for our students? |
Evaluating Unit Plans
You should have a printed copy of an evaluation form available online at http://questioning/module/qualities.doc
From the list below, visit five unit plans aimed at your grade level and use the evaluation form to judge the quality of the plans. Some of the units are excellent. Some have questions that are not demanding enough. Some suffer from poor design.
It should take about one hour to do this well. Remember to think about the unit plan you will start this week and how it could be better than the ones you visit today. You will be asked to pick one of these projects to show to the group and explain what attributes set it apart.
| Fifth grade science (Planets) http://wwwsil.bham.wednet.edu/Curriculum/paBASECAMP.HTM Silver Beach Elementary School, Bellingham Washington Fifth grade social studies (Explorers) |
| Explorers Then and Now A curriculum unit developed by teachers in Shrewsbury, MA asking why do explorers explore. |
| Welcome to Ancient Greece http://198.236.202.10/wood/faastd/greek/ Wood Middle School, Wilsonville, Oregon |
| Grand Prairie ISD Texas http://www.gpisd.org/gpisd/modules/modulepage.html |
| Baltimore County Maryland http://www.bcpl.net/~sullivan/modules |
| Bateman's Bay, New South Wales, Australia http://www.cap.nsw.edu.au/bb_site_intro/bbcap_intro.html |
Please do not move forward until your group leader asks you to do so.
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