Format Outline for Nested Standards Thematic Unit Plans
© 2003 Randy L. Hoover and Kathy M. Shook
  1. Theme:

    2.      A. Brief Explanation of what the theme involves in terms of what the students will experience.

  2. Identify specifically the content standards that will be nested by type:

    3.      A. Conceptual

         B. Performance

         C. Content

  3. Brief description of the primary outcome assessment(s) you will use:

  4. Daily Lesson Plans for the Unit: (Separate pages for each day.)

    5.      A. Day (within the unit sequence):

         B. Instructional Objectives:

      1. TSW use… to …
      2. TSW use… to …
      3. TSW use… to …
      4. TSW use… to …

    Teacher Activities

    Student Activities

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         C. Specific assignments should be attached behind the day's lesson plan in which they will be given.

         D. Assessments used to determine if the instructional objectives have been met go behind the page of the day they are given.

  5. Identify what thematic unit culminating activities will be directly related to giving the students the opportunity to connect what they did in the unit to how that same knowledge may be formatted on the standardized tests and how the knowledge they experienced relates to the real world. Format these standardized test preparation exercises as regular daily lesson plans including instructional objectives the activities.

    NOTE: See "Validating Questions for the Thematic Unit Plan" on the Download Page. They should help make this more clear to you and easier for you to own. professionally and personally.