Daily Lesson Plans & Finding Resources T HE D AILY P LANNER Understanding By Design: Stage 3 How does this graphic represent UBD?

Daily Lesson Plans Sequential order of lessons leading to the Culminating Task Benchmarks and Scaffolding At-A-Glance! Content, Skills, and Standards GRASPS Daily 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? MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday Aim: Do now: Activity: Aim: Do now: Activity: Aim: Do now: Activity: Aim: Do now: Activity: Aim: Do now: Activity: 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 expected HOOK with needed skills to experience and explore to REVISE and RETHINK their understanding Allow students to EVALUATE work and implications TAILOR work to student needs Be ORGANIZED to maximize engagement MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday Content Focus: Hook: Work Period: Daily Assessment: Content Focus: Hook: Work Period : Daily Assessment: Content Focus: Hook: Work Period : Daily Assessment: Content Focus: Hook: Work Period : Daily Assessment: Content Focus: Hook: Work Period : Daily Assessment:

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. F INDING R ESOURCES U NDERSTANDING B Y D ESIGN : S TAGE 3 What caption would you write for this picture?

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 units Look at the word problems Special “investigations” Teacher edition Example: 7 th 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 websites Google (e.g. search for “math art middle school ubd”) Google Know how to effectively search Google Scholar ( Search scholarly journals/periodicals Google Books ( Full-text and previews of many books Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble ( Amazon.com Search for books and have your Magnet specialist order them

Collaboration with experts Public organizations MTA/NYC Transit, DEP/EPA Cultural Institutions Museums, Moveable Museum Hall of Science Art Galleries Corporations ConEd Sony Banks Call them and see if they are willing to do a school visit

Public Library E-Resources NYPL.org, QueensLibrary.org Full Text Databases: JSTOR, EBSCO, ProQuest Journals Newspapers/Magazines Statistical information Digital Media E-books and Audio books PC/Mac/iPod/Burn to CD Streaming/Downloadable video TumbleBooks Animated, talking picture books Standardized test prep and practice

New York Public Library Unique Offerings Bookflix Classic fictional video storybooks and Scholastic e-books Freegal Music 3 downloads per week from catalog of Sony Music Digital Gallery 700,000 images, manuscripts, maps, posters etc.

Affordable Content If the library resources are inadequate… Amazon Unbox Video $1.99 episodes Purchase once, share with many History Channel, NatGeo, Science Channel, Discovery, etc. iTunes More convenient for Mac schools Mostly $1.99 episodes, share with limited number of peers PodCasts free Netflix Non-fiction and documentaries

Other Websites MoMA.org Modern Teachers Online The Online Collection Destination Modern Art MetMuseum.org Verizon Thinkfinity Lesson plans, PD, and activities