Understanding by Design Unit Template 2

Understanding By Design Unit Template
Title of Unit
Grade Level
Subject
Time Frame
Developed By
Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results

Broad Areas of Learning (BAL)
How are the BAL incorporated into this unit?
Cross Curricular Competencies (CCC)

How will this unit promote CCC?
Learning Outcomes
What relevant goals will this unit address?
(must come from curriculum; include the designations e.g. IN2.1)
Enduring Understandings
What understandings about the big ideas are desired? (what you
want students to understand & be able to use several years from
now)
What misunderstandings are predictable?
Students will understand that...
Essential Questions
What provocative questions will foster inquiry into the content?
(open-ended questions that stimulate thought and inquiry linked
to the content of the enduring understanding)
Related misconceptions
FNMI, multicultural, cross-curricular
Knowledge:
What knowledge will student acquire as a result of this unit? This
content knowledge may come from the indicators, or might also
address pre-requisite knowledge that students will need for this
unit.
Skills
What skills will students acquire as a result of this unit? List the
skills and/or behaviours that students will be able to exhibit as a
result of their work in this unit. These will come from the
indicators.
Students will know...
Students will be able to
Content specific.
Stage 2 Assessment Evidence

Performance Task
Through what authentic performance task will students demonstrate the desired understandings, knowledge, and skills? (Describes the
learning activity in story form. Typically, the P.T. describes a scenario or situation that requires students to apply knowledge and skills
to demonstrate their understanding in a real life situation. Describe your performance task scenario below)
By what criteria will performances of understanding be judged?
GRASPS Elements of the Performance Task
G Goal
What should students accomplish by
completing this task?
R Role
What role (perspective) will your

students be taking?
A Audience
Who is the relevant audience?
S Situation
The context or challenge provided to

the student.
P Product, Performance
What product/performance will the

student
create?
S Standards & Criteria for

Success
Create the rubric for the Performance

Task
Attach rubric to Unit Plan
Other Evidence
Through what other evidence (work samples, observations,
quizzes, tests, journals or other means) will students demonstrate
achievement of the desired results? Formative and summative
assessments used throughout the unit to arrive at the outcomes.
Student Self-Assessment
How will students reflect upon or self-assess their learning?
Stage 3 Learning Plan

What teaching and learning experiences will you use to:
Achieve the desired results identified in Stage 1?
Equip students to complete the assessment tasks identified in Stage 2?
Where are your students headed? Where have they been? How will you make sure the students know where they are
going?
What experiences do the learners bring to the unit? How have the interests of the learners been ascertained? Have the
learners been part of the pre-planning in any way? What individual needs do you anticipate will need to be addressed?
Learning environment: Where can this learning best occur? How can the physical environment be arranged to enhance
learning?
How will you engage students at the beginning of the unit? (motivational set)
What events will help students experience and explore the enduring understandings and essential questions in the unit?
How will you equip them with needed skills and knowledge?
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Lesson Title
Lesson Activities
CCCs
Resources
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Assess and Reflect (Stage 4)

Considerations
Comments
Required Areas of Study:

Is there alignment between outcomes,
performance assessment and learning
experiences?
Adaptive Dimension:
Have I made purposeful adjustments to the
curriculum content (not outcomes), instructional
practices, and/or the learning environment to meet
the learning needs and diversities of all my
students?
For struggling students:
For students who need a challenge:
Instructional Approaches:
Do I use a variety of teacher directed and student
centered instructional approaches?
Resource Based Learning:
Do the students have access to various resources
on an ongoing basis?
FNM/I Content and Perspectives/Gender
Equity/Multicultural Education:
Have I nurtured and promoted diversity while
honoring each childs identity?
From: Wiggins, Grant and J. McTighe. (1998). Understanding by Design, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, ISBN # 0-87120313-8 (pbk)

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Understanding By Design Unit Template

Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results

Cross Curricular Competencies (CCC)

FNMI, multicultural, cross-curricular

Students will know...

Students will be able to

Stage 2 Assessment Evidence

What role (perspective) will your

Who is the relevant audience?

The context or challenge provided to

What product/performance will the

S Standards & Criteria for

Create the rubric for the Performance

Attach rubric to Unit Plan

Stage 3 Learning Plan

Assess and Reflect (Stage 4)

Required Areas of Study:

For struggling students:

For students who need a challenge:

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