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Curriculum Development

This Web page reviews the curriculum building process, provides files which contain models for the design of lesson plans and unit plans and also provides links to indexes of actual lesson and unit plans. Note that the State Department of Public Instruction is gradually linking lesson plans to the entire North Carolina K-12 Curriculum Matrix. Please provide and/or suggest other models for lesson, unit and other curriculum formats and I will include them.

Some of the files are available in ClarisWorks format, which requires that you have ClarisWorks 2.0 or higher on your workstation and have modified preferences under the Options command to allow your browser to retrieve and display such files. Those files that can be converted to HTML format and viewable by all Web browsers have been so modified, but some file types like databases and spreadsheets are not convertible in this way.

Table of Contents for this Page:

Building Curriculum
Lesson Plan Models
Unit Plan Models
Actual Lesson and Unit Plans

Sections

Lesson Plan Models

Student Teacher Handbook.
- Typewriter format Template of a Six Point Lesson Plan Model
Dr. Rose's Lesson Plan template for Math

Lesson Plans Incorporating Internet Resources
The Great Potato Famine: Using Dr. Houston's Lesson Plan models for Literature

Historical Background, necessary for many readers to understand the book.
Assessment, done to determine if the book or set of works are appropriate.

Unit Plan Models

Student Teacher Handbook
Dr. Perlmutter's Unit Plan examples: Food Groups ; Food Groups Modified ; Unit Criteria.

Dr. Rose's Unit Plan template for Math

Actual Lesson and Unit Plans

The North Carolina Standard Course of Study Curriculum Matrix: North Carolina's addition of lesson plans to the goals of the state curriculum matrix is far from complete. You will simply have to explore to see which links have had lesson plans added.
LearnNC: This site is under development. It currently requires a password for access to the actual database. Their goal is to link a lesson plan to each of the over 14,000 objectives of the NC Standard Course of Study.
The Learning Exchange: "This is the place for educators interested in professional development, lesson plans, projects and creating and sharing curriculum resources, and building a worldwide community of people committed to finding even better ways to teach with technology." (Apple Computer)
The Meta-Libraries of Educational Resources: Meta-libraries are collections of web sites by topic or subject areas. This list is a selection of the better subject indexes on the Internet for educators.
Ask ERIC, Web System: ERIC is the U.S. Educational Resource Information Center. At this Web site you will find a link to lesson plans. Your campus library provides other more sophisticated online tools for searching ERIC.
Scholastic, Inc.: Scholastic is one of the world's largest companies dedicated to the education of young people, from pre-schoolers to secondary school students. It is best known for its magazines, books, software and video. Scholastic Network and the Scholastic Internet Center are two of Scholastic's newest ventures. The company currently provides a wide range of lesson plans by subject area.

For my readers, I have a question that derives from problems posed by students and other faculty. How do you address curriculum development when the district and state objectives have missed an important topic, or have grown out of sync with the culture or the concerns of professional educational organizations and/or research?

Other Lesson and Unit Plans Sites

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