Title of Unit ___________________________________________________

 Student _______________________________________________________

 Each unit should have 3 to 7 Outcomes.  For an example of a completed Unit Outcome Form see some Sample Units.

 

Unit Outcome # ________

 

 

(Type the outcome here)

 

 

Mastery

Do

By and With Whom

Y

(means Yes)

I

(means Incomplete - not learned YET.)

 

(Here you will list what the students will do – what they must know – in order to be able to accomplish the unit outcome listed above.)

 

(This tells the students how they will be doing it and with whom – individually, in Expert Groups or Jigsaw Groups, etc.)

 

 

For example:

Identify the meaning of the term “civil rights.”

 

For example:

Expert Groups:

  1. Native American
  2. African-American
  3. Latino-American
  4. Asian-American
  5. Euro-American

Each group develops a working definition of the term by conducting research using a variety of materials.

 

 

 

Determine major scientific and technological advances made by members of the group studied from 1650 to present.

 

 

Working in Expert Groups to create a database of achievements through this time period and identify individual contributors

 

 

Enablers

Strategies

 

 

 

(These outcomes are the things that students must know in order to do the outcomes listed above.  This is where you list items such as basic skills and knowledges – the lower levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy.)

 

(Here you list particular strategies the students must learn before they can work in the different groups listed above – i.e., how do they work in groups?  What is an Expert Group, a Jigsaw Group?  What is the student’s role?

 

 

 

Group Assessments

Individual Assessments

 

 

 

Create a product in a medium of your choice demonstrating the basic principles of civil rights in American society.  Present to audience.

Rubric for criteria provided.

  

 

Research notes.

Teacher observation.  

Participation in group research, production and presentation.