Format Outline for Nested Standards Thematic Unit Plans

1. Theme:

Brief Explanation of what the theme involves in terms of what the students will experience.

2. Identify specifically the content standards that will be nested:

A. Conceptual

B. Performance

C. Content

3. Brief description of the primary outcome assessment(s) you will use:

4. Daily Lesson Plans for the Unit:

(Separate pages for each day.)

A. Day (within the unit sequence):

B. Instructional Objectives:

1. TSW use… to …

2. TSW use… to …

3. TSW use… to …

Teacher Activities / Student Activities
1.
2.
3. / 1.
2.
3.

C. Student activities that represent assignments should be attached behind the day's lesson plan in which it will be given.

5. Attach the primary assessment(s) used to determine if the instructional objectives have been achieved by your students behind the page of the day they are given.

6. Attach standardized test preparation exercise(s) as part of the daily lesson plans.

7. Identify what post-thematic unit activities will be directly related to giving the students the opportunity to connect what they did in the unit to how that same knowledge may be formatted on the standardized tests and how it relates to the real world.

NOTE: See "Validating Questions for the Thematic Unit Plan" on the Download Page. They should help make this more clear to you and easier for you to own.