Backward Design - UNIT PLAN TEMPLATE

Title: Animal Detectives

Year Level: Year 5/6

Teacher: Jake Schleicher

Focus Curriculum Area (s): Science & English

Duration: 3 weeks (10 lessons)

STAGE 1: Curriculum Links

(What do we want students to learn? From the Australian/SCASA Curriculum)
General
Capabilities
(GP)

Ethical Behaviour

Personal and Social

ICT
Intercultural

Crosscurriculum
Priorities
(CCP)

Aboriginal and TSI

Asia and Australias

Sustainability

Literacy

Histories and
Culture

Numeracy

Engagement with Asia

Year Level
Content
Descriptors

Knowledge

Understanding

Year Level
Achievement
Standards

Skills

(What are students expected to learn?)

Critical and Creative Thinking

High-light elements of the standards

being assessed

(What are students expected to be able to do?)

LEARNING OUTCOMES: What relevant goals will this unit of work address? Draw these out of the content descriptors and the
achievement standards.
Students will be able to......

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UNDERSTANDING BY DESIGN STAGE 2: ASSESSMENT EVIDENCE

Task description: (Summative task that cater for students across the full range of abilities)
Through what authentic performance tasks will students demonstrate the desired understandings?
Concise statement about

what students are expected to do

product options (written, oral, graphic, multi-modal)
target audience
grouping options (individual, pair, triad)
when will this assessment be due (end of unit of work? After first topic?)

Assessment Criteria: Derived from Achievement Standard or Content Descriptions and Skills or Scope and Sequence
Assessment recording template: (what will be recorded and in what format?)
Feedback: (What sort of feedback will students receive?)
Self-assessment: (How will students reect upon and self-assess their learning?)

UNDERSTANDING BY DESIGN STAGE 3: PLAN LEARNING EXPERIENCES AND INSTRUCTION

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What

events will help students:

Experience and explore the enduring understandings and essential questions in the unit?
How will you equip them with needed skills and knowledge?
Achieve the desired results identifies in Stage 1?
Equip students to complete the assessment tasks identified in Stage 2?
Learning Experiences

Assessment For/As Learning

(Formative Assessment)

Resources

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