Criteria for Evaluation of Your Unit Plan in Outline Order

A Model Plan for Integrating Content and Information Technology

Unit Plan and Lesson Templates

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  • Handed-in this grading rubric with your own scoring of this rubric. You can send it as an email attachment.
  • Have deleted all the red "scaffolding" text from the unit plan.
 
2 I. Decide on title and general ideas that describe your unit plan.  
2 In Roman numeral I, add the title of your unit plan to your unit plan web page and link this page to your web site. Also indicate your grade level and subject (e.g., science, math, reading, etc.).  
2 II. Add content and technology skill goals.  
2 III. Complete section III. Use NC Standard Course of Study numbering system, e.g., Science 4.2. Re-state the goal listed in section II and then place three sub-objectives goals under each of these major goals. You must include some BK-12 computer sub-objectives among them. In this Objective's section (III.) of your unit plan, create a link from your Unit Plan to appropriate objectives of the Computer Skills Curriculum found in the online version of the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.  
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IV. Lesson Plans

Provide at least full two lesson plans and and annotate the rest. Spell out how computer technology integrates with your unit plan.

Must be clear correlation between goals of section II and III and the lessons of section IV. Undergraduates need 8-10 lesson plans. Describe the lessons in this section in a few sentences that note technology correlations with the ideas studied this semester. It is understood that you will be imagining more than you have resources at this time. Two of these ten must be fully expanded lessons, which also emphasize the use of technology to support instructional goals and be linked as separate HTML files containing fully detailed lessons (do not link Word files). Use the lesson plan models assigned by Intern seminar or your school district. They can be any two of the list of lessons.

 
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V. Video: Video is uploaded to web site and linked in two different file sizes

 
2  V. Powerpoint: Create a Powerpoint electronic slideshow which summarizes your unit plan and just add the name of the file and storage device (e.g., green USB drive) to part V.  
4  VI. Higher Order Thinking Questions. Add at least one each of the six types of higher order thinking skill questions. These questions should reappear in lesson plans. When placed in lesson plans, label these in boldface.  
2 VII. Video Resources: Under a heading for Video Resources, add a list of relevant video titles and appropriate citation information (part VII), find and list video resources for the unit plan.  
2 VII. Expert contacts: Under the heading of Expert add expert(s) name for your unit plan topic with email address and any other contact information (part VII), part of Search strategies feed writing strategies.  
2 VII. Expert - International: Add another expert as "international consultant" and his/her email address to your unit plan's list of experts for your unit plan topic. Boldface the country or native language and place this data in section VII, (optional extra credit, Search strategies feed writing strategies)  
2 VII. Email lists: Add a LISTSERV related to the topic of your Unit Plan, as part of Search strategies feed writing strategies.  
2 VII. Newsgroups: Add a newsgroup related to the topic of your Unit Plan. [A part of Search strategies feed writing strategies.]  
2 VII. Books: Find relevant books and other paper based resources for your unit plan.  
2.5 VII. List web sites: from Britannica (Hunter Library's version),  Google Directory and hotbot.com (robot site). Search strategies feed writing strategies

 

 

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VII. Child Safe: Under the heading Child Safe Sites, search the child web sites and copy the web addresses of at least two child-safe sites into part VII. Linking to these sites is easy to do.
 
2 VII. Database Create a new 5 record database of several fields related to your unit plan and add the file and disk names to part VII, Instructional Resources.  
2 VII. Spreadsheet Build a comparison spreadsheet for your unit plan, and add the name of the file and disk to part VII of the unit plan.  
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VII. Instructional Software: Add information on Shareware/free and Commercial software for your unit plan into part VII. including a link to a site selling a relevant software program (Instructional Resource reading

 
5 VIII. Technology Planning: Note all of the hardware and other related equipment that you will need over the course of your unit in section VIII. Web link your "technology wishlist" shopping spreadsheet file as a link to section VIII. of your unit plan.  
2 IX. Spreadsheet: Build a gradebook spreadsheet for your unit plan, and add the name of the file and disk to part IX, Evaluation.  
2 IX. Database: You completed a student record keeping and assessment database in class. Note its file and disk names in section IX, Evaluation.  
2 IX.  & X. Add other notes to complete sections IX and X and all remaining parts of other sections of your unit plan.  

 
 
0-7 Additional points will be removed for spelling and grammar errors. Have someone proofread for you. 

If the required work is completed correctly, other activities or extensions can add points for potentially an A+ or 4.3 grade on this assignment. This is a judgment call based on the number of such completed and the quality of such work. Be sure and use the phrase "extra credit" in boldface to make such work stand out for my grading.

 

Updated -April 27, 2010.

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