• What topic or theme do you want to focus on with your unit plan?
• What grade level, and content area is this for?
• Why do you think students will be interested/excited about this unit?
• Identify desired results: What should students know, understand, and be able to do? What is the ultimate transfer we seek as a result of this unit? What enduring understandings are desired? What essential questions will be explored in-depth and provide focus to all learning?
• Determine assessment evidence: How will we know if students have achieved the desired results? What will we accept as evidence of student understanding and their ability to use (transfer) their learning in new situations? How will we evaluate student performance in fair and consistent ways?
• Plan learning experiences and instruction: How will we support learners as they come to understand important ideas and processes? How will we prepare them to autonomously transfer their learning? What enabling knowledge and skills will students need to perform effectively and achieve desired results? What activities, sequence, and resources are best suited to accomplish our goals?

I would like to focus on the importance of inclusion and kindness within my unit plan. I want my students to write one nice thing someone did for them during the week and put it in a drawing and have a “Star student” on fridays who will win a pick a prize. This will make the students eager to include their classmates and be kind to one another.

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It will give students an opportunity to share their thoughts on what it means to be kind and include others/their classmates. Showing short videos, getting them one on one, and hearing what they all have to say will make them feel like their opinion is important. Giving them a way to express themselves and share a story on a time they were kind to another student or weren’t included in an activity and how that made them feel would give them a better understanding of what these two words truly mean. 

I want my students to know that it is always better to be kind to everyone because you never know what type of day that individual could be having. Bullying/teasing will never be tolerated. Asking them to play at recess or sit with them at lunch could make the world of a difference in a child’s life and with showing them activities on what it means to be kind, they will understand the concept. That comes with including their classmates in activities inside and outside of the classroom. Evidence would be having them draw pictures, raise their hand and express their thoughts on what it means to be kind and inclusive. By watching and reminding my students on how their behavior should be is a way for me to see if they have achieved the results.