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    The document describes a process called "unwrapping the standards" that helps teachers understand learning standards. It involves analyzing standards to identify essential concepts, skills, and levels of difficulty. Teachers underline concepts, circle skills, and create a graphic to represent an "unwrapped" standard. This clarifies what students must know and be able to do. It also helps teachers identify "Big Ideas" and write essential questions to guide instruction and assessment centered on the standard.

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    The document describes a process called "unwrapping the standards" that helps teachers understand learning standards. It involves analyzing standards to identify essential concepts, skills, and levels of difficulty. Teachers underline concepts, circle skills, and create a graphic to represent an "unwrapped" standard. This clarifies what students must know and be able to do. It also helps teachers identify "Big Ideas" and write essential questions to guide instruction and assessment centered on the standard.

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    Unwrapping

    the Standards

    Unwrapping the standards is a proven technique that helps teachers and
    leaders identify from the language of the standards exactly what they need
    to teach their students. The process provides clarity as to what students
    must know and be able to do. When we take the time to analyze each
    standard and identify its essential concepts and skills, the result is more
    effective instructional planning, assessment, and student learning.

    Step 1: Choose one Priority Standard to Unwrap

    Step 2: Underline the key Concepts (important nouns and noun phrases)
    and circle or underline the Skills (verbs). Concepts are what students must
    know and the skills are what students must be able to do.

    Step 3: Create a Graphic Organizer that represents the standard in its
    unwrapped state. List the Skills, the Concepts, and determine the level of
    rigor (Blooms or DOK).

    Step 4: Determine BIG Ideas from the unwrapped standard. Big Ideas
    are the enduring understandings that are stand the test of time and
    typically transcend content areas and learning situations.


    Suggested BIG Ideas from an Unwrapped Grade 6 Math Standard

    1) Understanding how to use common units of measure is a necessary math
    skill applicable to all areas of life.

    2) Mathematical formulas provide shortcuts for verifying estimates and

    solving problems.

    3) Standard and metric units of measure can be used interchangeably in

    daily applications.
    4) Measurement strategies and tools can be used to solve problems

    involving geometric shapes.


    Step 5: Write Essential Questions that hook students and guide inquiry.
    Big Ideas
    are the answers to the Essential Questions. EQs focus instruction on the
    unwrapped standard, align with assessment, and lead students to
    discover the Big Ideas on their own.

    Unwrapping the CCSS


    Content Area

    Grade/Course

    Unit of Study

    Duration of Unit

    Insert a standard below (include code). CIRCLE the SKILLS that students need to be able to do and
    UNDERLINE the CONCEPTS that students need to know.







    Concepts
    (what students need to know)













    Step 5: Determine BIG Ideas (enduring
    understandings students will remember long
    after the unit of study)










    Skills
    (what students must be able to do)

    Step 6: Write Essential Questions (these guide


    instruction and assessment for all tasks. The big
    ideas are answers to the essential questions)

    Next step, create assessments and engaging learning experiences


    DOK Level /
    Blooms

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