Curriculum+Unit

All semester you will be working towards creating a curriculum unit for a 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade classroom. You can design your unit around any social studies topic that aligns with 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade. Although your official unit will not be due until the end of the semester portions of your work will be due each week. Think of this more as a project we spend 15 weeks building and not something you complete as a final demonstration of your learning.

You will submit a hard copy of your unit to me as well as an electronic version to livetext. For your hardcopy you will need a clear view 1.5" binder. The cover should have your unit title, your name, my name, and Winter 2011 on it. You will also need 8 tabs (or dividers) to separate your sections.

Your curriculum unit it composed of 8 parts. The parts are as follows:

1. Teacher Letter: Letter 2. Content Analysis (map, goal grid, //rationale//) 3. Unit Pre-Assessment: 4. Anchor Activities: Think Tac Toe 5. Direct Instruction Lesson: Lesson & Materials 6. Cooperative Learning Lesson: lesson and Materials 7. Guided Discovery Lesson: //Lesson and materials// 8. Culminating Event: //Parent invitation//