Figure H6: Learning for Understanding

Use this worksheet to plan the learning events for your unit. Consider the following questions:
● What discrete knowledge and skill must learners acquire? (Acquisition)
● What understandings (big ideas, organizing principles, and strategies) should the learner internalize?
(Meaning-making)
● What long-term accomplishments do we want learners to be able to achieve on their own? (Transfer)

Unit Topic: _______________________________________________________________________

Acquisition Meaning Transfer

List the relevant knowledge and List the key understandings List the desired transfer
skills. (principles & strategies) applications.

1. Students apprehend, define and 1. Students compare the situation 1.

identify vocabulary related to
politics and historical periods of
violence and armed conflict in
Colombia with the use of
chronicles related to different
actors in
of different actors (the victim, the
aggressor, the State) of armed
conflict in Colombia through a
socratic seminar with the text
2.