Teaching & Learning Plan Preparation Steps # 1-5

This introduction describes the purposes and perspectives captured in the procedures for creating a plan. Additionally, this introductory
section provides an overall organizational scheme for understanding and using the materials in the Creating a Unit Plan. The purpose for this
packet is to give novice teachers a systematic approach in creating a Unit Plan. The packet includes 10 steps to complete in the teaching and
learning plan development process. More experienced teachers may use variations on the application of these design principles; the 10 steps give
novice teachers a step-by-step process for constructing teaching and learning plans. The steps used to create a Unit plan are delineated below.

Steps 1-10 Step Activity

1. Grading Period Content
Area Planning
2. Unit/Week Organization
3. Scope & Sequence
4. Content Area Standards
 Find 9 concepts (big ideas) that will be the basis for content area within a grading period
(9 weeks are used for a grading period).
 Select one week’s concept (big idea) for your Major Content Area (MCA)
 Divide Major CA into 5 Minor Content Areas (5 smaller ideas, Minor CAs) one for each day of
the week
 Order 5 Minor CAs into days of the week
 Find one content area standard by grades K-12 that teach to each of the Minor CAs

5. Learner Outcomes  Align, review and revise Content Area Standards to develop one learner outcome

6. Pre-Assessment
7. Learning Activities
8. Ongoing Assessment
 Determine assessment task (teaching strategy) that will form 3-5 general levels of
performance for post-assessment rubric
 Find or create 1-3 learning activities for each Day Plan to meet the learner outcomes of Step
5
 Select assessment tools to facilitate & guide progress of learning activities

9. Post-Assessment  Plan one learning product and select rubric for rating student performance

10. Review/Grade/Rubric  Place Grade Points on Rubric

 Step 1
Grading Period Content Planning

Course: United States History_____

Concept 1 (Unit/Week One): The Post war world

Concept 2 (Unit/Week Two): The establishment of the United Nations and International Declaration of Human Rights, International
Monetary Fund, World Bank, and General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

Concept 3 (Unit/Week Three): The role of military alliances, including NATO and SEATO and their effect on the Cold War

Concept 4 (Unit/Week Four): Trace the origins and geopolitical consequences (foreign and domestic) of the Cold War and
containment policy

Concept 5 (Unit/Week/Five): Cold war conflict, crisis, and concerns

Concept 6 (Unit/Week Six): The effects of foreign policy on domestic policies

Concept 7 (Unit/Week Seven): The role of the Reagan administration

Concept 8 (Unit/Week Eight): U.S. Middle East policy and its strategic, political, and economic interests

Concept 9 (Unit/Week Nine): Relations between the United States and Mexico in the twentieth century

Report Card GRADE—Rationale: Students must understand U.S. foreign policy since World War II as well as the US
involvement in the Cold War. Grades will be based on lesson activities, essays, short answers, a variety of test and quizzes and a
group project/presentation.
 Step 2
Dividing Major Content Area into 5 Minor Content Areas

Week/Unit: 5 Minor Content Areas

Week 5 Cold War Conflict, Crisis, and Concern

Content Packet---Day One Learning Plan Minor CA 1: The Korean War

Content Packet---Day Two Learning Plan Minor CA 2: The Bay of Pigs

Content Packet---Day Three Learning Plan Minor CA 3: The Cuban Missile Crisis

Content Packet---Day Four Learning Plan Minor CA 4: The Beginning of the Vietnam War

Content Packet---Day Five Learning Plan Minor CA 5: The War in Vietnam

Rationale: I broke down the major content area, Cold War Conflict, Crisis, and Concern, into these minor
content areas because each day of instruction pertains to an event of the cold war. I feel that it will help students
understand the separate and individual events but at the same time they will be able to realize their connections
to one another and the Cold War. The connections between the events will promote student understanding of
the overall Cold War and its place in United States History.
 Step 3

Determining Scope & Sequence

Conceptual: Scope and Sequence

Overview: The scope refers to the length of learning activity each Minor CA (with associated Standards) will cover in the Unit.
That length is commonly one week. The sequence refers to the order the Minor CAs will occur in the Unit or during the week. This
plan allows teachers to plan by day—to vary the week’s learning activities and to develop curricular content knowledge and skills..

Steps:
Provide a rationale for your Scope and Sequence explaining the reasons for your timing decisions. This may be the most
important decision of your plan.

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5

Teaching & Learning Teaching & Learning Teaching & Learning Plan Teaching & Learning Teaching & Learning
Plan Plan Plan Plan

MCA (1-3 words) MCA MCA MCA MCA

The Korean War Bay of Pigs Cuban Missile Crisis Vietnam War Start Vietnam War End

The over all rational of
my MCA order is
chronological and each
event is a conflict, crisis,
or concern during the
Cold War
The Korean War Was the
first major conflict of the
cold war and was a
containment conflict that
lead to other containment
conflicts like the Bay of
Pigs.
The events of the Bay of I split the Vietnam war The Vietnam war is a
Pigs paved the way to the into two days because it good example of the
Cuban Missile Crisis is too much to cover in effects of the Cold
just one day. War on foreign and
domestic policies and
the containment policy

Worksheet—Step 4
Content Area Standards
Day 1 Teaching & Day 2 Teaching & Day 3 Teaching & Day 4 Teaching & Day 5 Teaching &
Learning Plan Learning Plan Learning Plan Learning Plan Learning Plan

Minor CA (1-3 words) Minor CA Minor CA Minor CA Minor CA

The Korean War Bay of Pigs Cuban Missile Crisis Vietnam War Start Vietnam War End

Content Area Standard Content Area Standard Content Area Standard Content Area Standard Content Area Standard

Trace the origins and Trace the origins and Trace the origins and Trace the origins and Trace the origins and
geopolitical geopolitical geopolitical geopolitical geopolitical
consequences (foreign consequences (foreign consequences (foreign consequences (foreign consequences (foreign
and domestic) of the and domestic) of the and domestic) of the and domestic) of the and domestic) of the
Cold War and Cold War and Cold War and Cold War and Cold War and
containment policy, containment policy, containment policy, containment policy, containment policy,
including the including the following: including the following: including the following: including the following:
following: The Korean The Bay Of Pigs Cuban Missile Crisis Vietnam War Vietnam War
War
 Worksheet—Step 5
Learner Outcomes

Day 1 Teaching & Day 2 Teaching & Day 3 Teaching & Day 4 Teaching & Day 5 Teaching &
Learning Plan Learning Plan Learning Plan Learning Plan Learning Plan

Learning Outcome Learning Outcome Learning Outcome Learning Outcome Learning Outcome

Students will be able Through lecture and Students will be able to Students will use video Students will be able to
to show their group discussion show their clips and primary show their understanding
understanding of the Students will be able understanding of the source documents to of the cause and effect
cause and effect to show their cause and effect (foreign create graphic (foreign and domestic) of
(foreign and domestic) understanding of the and domestic) of the organizers to show the end of the Vietnam
of the Korean War and cause and effect Cuban Missile Crisis and their understanding of War and its connection to
its connection to the (foreign and domestic) its connection to the the cause and effect the Cold War and
Cold War and of the Bay of Pigs and Cold War and (foreign and domestic) containment policy by
containment policy its connection to the containment policy of the start of the using graphic organizers
Cold War and Vietnam War and its and previous knowledge
containment policy connection to the Cold to write a short essay to
War and containment connect the events of the
policy Cold War.