E30S6: Amazing units are impactful, well planned out, and serve a greater purpose other than just inside a school's walls. Such units don't happen accidentally, but by design. In this episode, I explain the essential components that go into amazing unit planning.

Show Notes

0:00 Intro

0:45 Intro to unit 6

1:46 Winter recess notice

3:53 Wins and Fails segment

6:49 Planning Backwards: What you need to know

9:53 Backwards design and what that actually means

11:31 Enduring understandings and big ideas

15:00 Essential questions

17:50 Asking good essential questions

23:11 Evidence

27:25 Learning activities

30:01 Episode summary

32:16 Closing

32:40 Outro

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