Your first Unit Plan is easiest to do by taking a chapter of a textbook
and generating a creative and effective way of teaching it. Later you
might want to try to create more original Units from scratch.
Timeline
April 6 :
Topic Choice
April 11:
Concept Map
April 18:
Preliminary Outline
April 27:
First Draft
May 9 :
Final Plan (if you want a chance for review and revision)
May 16:
Final Plan and Resource File
Content Components
Introduction
Topic, grade level, primary book used
Where the Unit fits in the curriculum
How the Unit fits with the Standards
Prerequisite Knowledge
What students need to know before entering this Unit
How you will assess whether students have prerequisites
Objectives
What students will know or be able to do on completion of the Unit
Day-by-Day Timeline
Mathematical content -- what is it and is it a concept, generalization, skill …?
What students will know or be able to do on completion of the lesson
Mode and teaching strategies to be used. Brief description of the day (e.g. Discovery lesson with students investigating the relationships between circumference, radius and area both on cans of various sizes and on Sketchpad. Students will work in groups to estimate the value of pi and compare their answers.)
Ideas for addressing differences in ability or background within the class
Resource List
Films, tools, materials, guest speakers, WEB sites, etc.
Resource File
Useful pieces of paper you collected while developing this Unit. These might include interesting problems, applications, activities, your brainstorming list of ideas for teaching this Unit, items for a bulletin board, WEB pages, newspaper clippings, etc.
Assessment Plan
How will you assess whether your objectives have been met? Give your ideas for tests, quizzes, performance assessments, portfolios, etc. You do not have to write out all the tests, quizzes … that you would use.
Substitute Plan
Supply an activity that a non-math sub could use in your absence that would be in keeping with the topic of the Unit