Unit Plan Guidelines -- NSF and Non-NSF Curricula:

You will be responsible for writing two unit plans on the same general topic, but from two different types of texts.  One text will be an integrated text produced under National Science Foundation Guidelines.  The other will be a more traditional sequential text (e.g. Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry, etc.).  Ideally, one of these texts will be the one in use where you intend to student teach next year.  The instructor can help you find two compatible units.

Unit Plan Guidelines -- Non NSF Curricula: 
Content

Story Line and Concept Map Mathematical story, concepts and connections

Introduction
  • Topic, grade level, primary book used 
  • Where it fits in the curriculum 
  • How it fits with the ten PSSM Standards and six Principles

Prerequisite knowledge:
  • What students need to know in order to attack this unit 
  • How will you know they know it? 

Objectives:
  • What students will know and be able to do at the end of this unit 

Day-by-day timeline (some lessons will take more than one day)
  • Mathematical content--what is it and is it concept, generalization, skill? 
  • What will students know and be able to do at end of this lesson? 
  • Mode and teaching strategies to be used . A couple of sentences that give a picture of your day (e.g. Discovery lesson with students investigating the relationship between circumference, radius and area both on cans of various sizes and on Sketchpad. Students will work in groups to calculate PI and compare their answers.) 
  • Ideas for addressing differences in ability, background within the class. 

Resource List: Films, tools, materials, guest speakers, etc. 

Resource File: To be collected as you plan your unit and attached to your plan. This could include interesting problems, applications, activities, ideas for teaching, items for a bulletin board, etc. 

Assessment Plan: This does not have to be detailed, but should include ideas for tests, quizzes, performance assessments, portfolios, whatever 

Substitute Plan: An activity a non-math sub could use that would be in keeping with the topic of the unit. 

Nice to have: A plan for a bulletin board display that you would put up at the beginning of the unit 

Two complete lesson plans:
  • introductory lesson and 
  • one other lesson. 
Notes: Your first unit plan is easiest to do by taking a chapter in a textbook and figuring out creative ways to teach it. Later you will want to try to create more original plans. 
Timeline
4/20
 Topic
5/11 Concept Map
5/14 (optional if you want feedback) Preliminary outline/first draft 
5/19 Final plan  by 11 a.m.
5/19 Resource file by 11 a.m.

 

 

Unit Plan Guidelines -- NSF Curricula: 
Content

Story Line and Concept Map Mathematical story, concepts and connections.  Concept Map is optional

Introduction
  • Curriculum, Year, Name of Unit
  • Where Unit fits into this curriculum
  • Brief overview of theme(s) of unit: both content and context 
  • How it fits with the ten PSSM Standards and six Principles

Mathematical Objectives: What students will know and be able to do at the end of this unit 

Day-by-day timeline (most lessons will take more than one day)
  • Mathematical content--what is it and is it concept, generalization, skill? 
  • What will students know and be able to do at end of this lesson? 
  • Mode and teaching strategies to be used A couple of sentences that give a picture of your day (e.g. Discovery lesson with students investigating the relationship between circumference, radius and area both on cans of various sizes and on Sketchpad. Students will work in groups to calculate PI and compare their answers.) 

    • Ideas for addressing differences in ability, background within the class. 
      Resource List: Films, tools, materials, guest speakers, etc. 

    		Optional but Nice to have: A plan for a bulletin board display that you would put up at the beginning of the unit 
    Notes: The outline that you construct in this plan assumes that you will follow the curriculum quite closely. You will still have to decide which in-class exercises to assign, where to stop for checkpoints, and which out-of-class exercises to assign to which students. 
    Timeline
    4/20
    		 Select unit
    5/19
    		 Story Line
    5/19 Final plan and Resource File due by 11 a.m..





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