Unit Planner

Unit Title______

Grade Level______Teacher(s)______

Time Frame ______

Unit Essential Question:
Focus Standards/Complementary Standards (write out or attach standards)
Standard Reference Standard / Levels of Learning
Knowledge;
Comprehension-Organizing;
Application; Generate-Analysis; Integration-Synthesis; Evaluation
Process Skills developed in unit

Unpack Standards. What should student KNOW, UNDERSTAND, and be able to DO (demonstrate) by the end of the unit?

Know (K) / *AC / Understand (U) / *AC / Do (D) / *AC
Big Ideas of Unit
Key Learning (SLM)

*AC-Assessment Code: I-Informal SR-Selected Response CR-Constructed Response PA-Performance Assessment

Assessment codes may be used with KUD and/or correlated with lessons.

Description/Examples of Assessments
Informal:
Selected Response:
Constructed Response:
Performance/Product Task (End of Unit)
GRASPS (suggested format)
Goal:
Role:
Audience:
Situation:
Product:
Standards/Criteria

I= Oral questioning, observation, interviews, conferences, checklists, process descriptions, journal sharing, thinking aloud, peer review

SR=True/False, multiple choice, matching, fill-in-blanks w/word bank

CR=Fill-in-the-blanks, essay, short answer, diagram, web, concept map, flow chart, graph, table, matrix, illustrations

PA=Presentation, movement, science lab, athletic skill, dramatization, enactment, project, debate, model, exhibition, recital

Assessments (con’t)

Description of the end of unit Performance Task

Scoring Rubric for end of unit Performance Task

Scale
Criteria

Student Learning Map

Key Learning:
Unit Essential Question:
Concept / Concept / Concept / Concept
Lesson Essential Questions / Lesson Essential Questions / Lesson Essential Questions / Lesson Essential Questions
Key terms / Key terms / Key terms / Key terms

Instructional Lesson Plans

Acquisition Lesson AC Differentiation

Lesson #______
Essential Question
AP
AP
AP
Activating Strategy
Teaching Strategies
Instruction
AP
Instruction
AP
Instruction
AP
Assignment
*
Summarizing Strategy

* Extending Thinking Lesson may go here OR taught as a separate lesson

Copy and paste as many lessons as you need.

Acquisition Lesson AC Differentiation

Lesson #______
Essential Question
Activating Strategy
Teaching Strategies
*
Summarizing Strategy

* Extending Thinking Lesson may go here OR taught as a separate lesson

Extending Thinking Lesson
(after lesson #______)

Abstracting Compare/Contrast Classify/Categorize

Constructing Support Error Analysis Analyzing Perspectives

Inductive Reasoning Deductive Reasoning Other:______

Essential Question:
Mini-Lesson:
Task:
Summarize/Share:

Note: Copy and paste as many times as needed

Preview Lesson

(for struggling learners prior to the unit)

Important Vocabulary:
Graphic Organizer/Student Learning Map
Activating Strategy

Resources Materials/To Do List

This Unit Planner is a DRAFT. It is an effort to combine the elements of the GPS Planner and the components of the Learning Focused Unit. Comments are welcome.*

Suggestions:

Templates may be developed for the Acquisition Lesson Section so that strategies most often used can be listed and then checked for a particular lesson. This is a great time-saving idea and an example is included in this packet. The same idea is appropriate for the differentiation notes section.

All sections were developed with the “table” tab. Rows/columns may be added or deleted for individual preference.

B. Singleton (2/09) * OR

Unit Planner.bs.LFS.GPS.feb09

EXAMPLE OF AN ACQUISITION LESSON TEMPLATE-adapt…lists are not all-inclusive

Acquisition Lesson AC Differentiation

Lesson #______
Essential Question
Activating Strategy
___KWL ___Brainstorm ___Book/Poem/Song ___Word Splash
___Anticipation Guide ___Other______
___Vocabulary:
Teaching Strategies
___Collaborative pairs ___Group activities ___Lecture w/note guide
___Graphic Organizer ___Distributed Practice ___Distributed Summarizing
___Independent practice ___Worksheet ___Powerpoint
___Text p. ___Discussion ____Game ___Revisit Activating Strategy
*
Summarizing Strategy
___TOTD ____Journal entry ____3-2-1 ____Today I learned….
Note: Each student should answer the lesson EQ / Modalities Addressed
V A T/K
Multiple Intelligences
Verbal/Linguistic
Logical/Mathematical
Musical Naturalist
Spatial/visual
Bodily/Kinesthetic
Work alone
Work in pairs
Work in groups
Choice of activities based on
___interest ___readiness
Reading/Study Buddies
Materials at varied reading levels
Contracts
Tiered Activities
Other:

* Extending Thinking Lesson may go here OR taught as a separate lesson

Note: Copy and paste if additional lessons are needed