Unit Organizer

• Is an instructional method for planning and leading learning, including a device and instructional sequence that support all students in understanding and remembering information.

• Makes abstract and complex ideas more concrete and understandable.

• Information on the device is spaced well (not too much, not too crowded).

• The entire unit is coherent

• On the front the current unit name, the bigger picture (idea or theme behind the unit), the unit map (paraphrase of the main idea of the unit and how the unit is organized), the unit relationships (relationships of the key concepts in the unit), the unit questions

• (questions related to the big ideas the students should know at the end of the unit), and the unit schedule (activities and assignments for the unit).

• On the back is the expanded map (provides a more detailed understanding of the unit concepts, critical subtopics/concepts and key vocabulary that are identified as lessons or parts of the unit are added), and questions (new questions to be added)

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