Daily Lesson Plans&

Finding Resources

THE DAILY PLANNERUnderstanding By Design: Stage 3

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Daily Lesson Plans

Sequential order of lessons leading to the Culminating Task

Benchmarks and Scaffolding

At-A-Glance!

Content, Skills, and Standards

GRASPSDaily Planner

The Daily Planner

Daily Planner in Detail

Aim, teaching point, learning objective

Motivation, “Do Now”, warm up, problem of the day

Activity, exercises, problems

Quiz, test, essay (mirrors the standardized assessments)

What are the STANDARDS?What are the goals for the end of the unit?What do the students already know?How can we REVISE and RETHINK their

understandings?

Allow students to EVALUATE work and implications.Differentiate work to student needs.Be ORGANIZED to maximize engagement.

How does this fit with the theme of the school?What relevance does this have to the culminating activity?

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday FridayAim:

Do now:

Activity:

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Test, Quiz, Project, Essay, book report

Middle School Daily Planner(non-UBD!)

UBD has its own terminology . . . .

The Daily Planner (for UBD!)

Weekly assessment-

WHERE is the student going and what is expectedHOOK with needed skills to experience and exploreto REVISE and RETHINK their understanding

Allow students to EVALUATE work and implicationsTAILOR work to student needsBe ORGANIZED to maximize engagement

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday FridayContent Focus:

Hook:

Work Period:

Daily Assessment:

Content Focus:

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Now that you have written the outline of your unit, it is time to find resources that you can use to support your unit

and flesh out your lessons.

FINDING RESOURCESUNDERSTANDING BY DESIGN: STAGE 3

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Why should we find resources?We can find resources for:

Our students to use in completing the activities and culminating tasks that we already developed

Ourselves to use when we are writing units

Include your resource list on the last page of the UBD template.This lets other teachers better utilize your units.

Textbooks – for writing unitsLook at the word problemsSpecial “investigations”Teacher edition

Example: 7th Grade Math textbook, Percents chapter:Many health authorities recommend that a

healthy diet contains no more than 30% of its Calories from fat. If Jennie consumes 1,500 Calories each day, what is the maximum number of Calories she should consume from fat? (Glencoe Mathematics Course 3, page 222)

Our favorite websitesGoogle (e.g. search for “math art middle school ubd”)

Know how to effectively search

Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com) Search scholarly journals/periodicals

Google Books (http://books.google.com)Full-text and previews of many books

Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble (www.BN.com)Search for books and have your Magnet specialist order

them

Collaboration with expertsPublic organizations

MTA/NYC Transit, DEP/EPA

Cultural InstitutionsMuseums, Moveable

MuseumHall of ScienceArt Galleries

CorporationsConEdSonyBanks

Call them and see if they are willing to do a school visit

Public Library E-ResourcesNYPL.org, QueensLibrary.orgFull Text Databases: JSTOR, EBSCO, ProQuest

JournalsNewspapers/MagazinesStatistical information

Digital MediaE-books and Audio books

PC/Mac/iPod/Burn to CDStreaming/Downloadable video

TumbleBooksAnimated, talking picture books

Standardized test prep and practice

New York Public LibraryUnique OfferingsBookflix

Classic fictional video storybooks and Scholastic e-books

Freegal Music3 downloads per week from catalog of Sony

MusicDigital Gallery

700,000 images, manuscripts, maps, posters etc.

Affordable ContentIf the library resources are inadequate…Amazon Unbox Video

$1.99 episodesPurchase once, share with manyHistory Channel, NatGeo, Science Channel,

Discovery, etc.iTunes

More convenient for Mac schoolsMostly $1.99 episodes, share with limited

number of peersPodCasts free

NetflixNon-fiction and documentaries

Other WebsitesMoMA.org

Modern Teachers OnlineThe Online CollectionDestination Modern Art

MetMuseum.orgVerizon Thinkfinity

www.thinkfinity.orgLesson plans, PD, and activities