Unpacking the Standards

Name: Dr. Polly

Grade: 3

  1. Unpack the Literacy Standards –

Hint- Focus on Standards related to comprehending informational text!

Standard:

CCSS Litearcy.RI.3.2- Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

Literacy Standard (in your own words) / Anchor Standard
(in your own words) / Concepts included in the Literacy Standard / Central Focus (one of the concepts) / Literacy Strategy
Students will read a non-fiction text and thy will determine the main idea of what they read. / R.2- Students will determine central ideas after reading a text. / Understanding and comprehending text, identifying the main ideas. / Students will identify the main idea of an informational text. / Summarize the main idea.

Pre-requisite Literacy Skills (associated with the literacy strategy):

Reading text fluently, comprehending an informational text

Requisite Literacy Skills (associated with the literacy strategy):

Identifying details in an informational text

2. Unpack the Content Standards

Content Objectives / Big Idea (what students need to understand) / Facts and concepts to be taught / Skills to be mastered
3.P.2.2. Compare solids, liquids, and gases based on their basic properties. / Distinguish the differences between solids, liquids, and gasses. / Properties of solids, liquids, and gasses. / Describing properties of solids, liquids, and gasses. Comparing the properties.
  1. Resource Gathering

Find titles of at least 6 books (short stories, novels, Big Books, etc.) that would be appropriate for your grade level and the content that would be taught. This may involve you spending a little bit of time in your school's media center, with your classroom teacher, or the UNC Charlotte's Curriculum and Instructional Materials Center (CIMC) which has books and materials that you can check out.

Solid, Liquid, or Gas by Sally Hewitt

Change It: Solids, Liquids, and Gasses by Adrienne Mason

What is a Gas? by Jennifer Boothroyd

What is the World Made of? By Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

Air is all around You by Franklyn Branley

What’s the Matter in Mr. Whisker’s Room by Michael Ross

Find at least 3 websites and/or SMART Board files that you can use with students.

Solids, Liquids, and Gasses on BrainPop-

Identifying the Main Idea Video-

Identifying the Main Idea-

4. Essential Questions for the unit (no more than three). These come from unpacking the standards:

a. What is the main idea of a text about the water cycle?

b. How does water move through the water cycle?

  1. Additional content areas:

Additional content areas to be included in the unit: / NCSCOS/CCSS standards and objectives / Unpack these standards.
Big Idea (what students need to understand) / facts and concepts to be taught / Skills to be mastered
Core Content areas (one more)
math
science
social studies
Other content areas (technology plus one other)
art
technology
music
drama
healthy living

6. Unit learning targets (assessments) – from #3 and #5 above. You might have more than one possible assessment in each category.

Level of thinking / Related to which content area? / Related to which standard/objective? / Type/description of assessment
remembering
understanding
applying
analyzing
evaluating
creating

Part 1:

Points possible / Points earned
Section 1 is appropriately completed and thoroughly. / 5
Section 2 is appropriately completed and thoroughly. / 4
Section 3 includes the accurate number of resources. / 5
total / 14

Part 2:

Points possible / Points earned
There are an appropriate and sufficient number of essential questions in Section 4 and they are appropriate for the main content area goal and objectives. / 3
Section 5 is completed adequately and appropriately. It is obvious that many possibilities have been considered. / 4
Section 6 is completed adequately and appropriately. It is obvious that many possibilities have been considered. / 4
total / 12

Unpacking the Standards