Course: Unit: Teacher:

Essential Question(s) or Higher-Order Thinking Objective:

Unit Content/Skill Goals Cross-Disciplinary Learning Strategy Goals

Higher-Order Thinking Skills:
Try to identify 1 goal for
Try to frame Goals in the each of the learning
students’ voice: strategies.

• “I can…
Literacy Strategies:
• “I understand…
• “I know how to…
• “I am learning how to…
• “I know what the teacher Metacognition:
is looking for during…

Lower-Order Thinking Skills:

Multi-Media,,Multi-Tiered Resources:

Try to identify a wide-range of resources: different media,

different reading levels, and resources that explore different
sub-topics within the overall unit’s focus. The range and
quality of resources will directly impact the quality of
students’ investigations during the unit. It also directly
impacts the extent to which students are dependent on the
teacher for access to information: units with few resources
tend to require the teacher to fill in lots of gaps, rather than
encouraging students to do this with each other.

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Evidence of Understanding
Examples of Synthesis Questions/Tasks for Exit Tickets, Quizzes, Journal Entries, and Round Robins

Try to create questions that ask students

The Benchmark Assessment:
to synthesize both new content/skill
learning AND the learning strategies:
• Higher-order Thinking Skills
• Literacy Strategies
• Metacognition
• Lower-order Thinking Skills

Ideas for Mini-Lessons for content/skill goals and learning strategy goals:
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 Daily Lessons
Learning
Lesson Launch Investigation Synthesis
Strategy

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 Daily Lessons
Learning
Lesson Launch Investigation Synthesis
Strategy

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