Understanding by Design PD resources

Your Task

With other teachers in your content area, create a unit plan using the Understanding by Design Template.

1. For examples of Understanding by Design subject specific unit plans, look here:

Teachers, here you can find a collection of sample Understanding by Design unit plans categorized by content area.

English

Health

Teachers will be given a hard copy of nutrition unit from Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design by Tomlinson and McTighe.

Math

Geometry this link includes a full length description of the backwards design process along with a unit on 10th grade geometry (volume and surface area) that starts on page 4 (scroll down).

Media

Science

Earth Science

Plate Tectonics unit 1

Plate Tectonics unit 2 To access this unit plan, click it and then open it in your downloads folder on the left side of your dock (bottom of screen).

Water Source, Quality, and Management unit

Living Environment

DNA fingerprinting whodunnit mystery unit

Global footprint unit

Social Studies

Unit plans that change every time you reload

I will also give you a hard copy of a Vietnam War unit plan and a Civil War unit plan

Spanish

Heroes and mediums of communication unit

Spanish Greetings and introductions unit

Here's an Understanding by Design unit rubric that administrators and teachers can use to give feedback for units to colleagues.

2. You can access the unit template here or by checking your email.

3. Save the unit plan as a copy and rename it: Subject Topic Unit ex. Biology DNA Fingerprinting Unit

4. Next post your unit plan on the HS308Staff wiki. Sign up for Wikispaces. Do NOT create a wiki. Join the HS308Staff wiki. I will approve your membership.

To post the unit plan on the site, find your subject on the left hand navigation menu. Click your subject. Click edit on the top right corner of the page. Copy and paste your unit. Click save.

If you are having trouble with wikispaces, you can share the unit plan with HS308Staff@Googlegroups.com as a Google Doc and I’ll post the unit plan for you later.