Unit Studies for Teachers

Lesson 7: Putting it All Together on an Ocean Cruise: Build Your Own Study Now!

Step by step you'll watch a completed case study take shape -- one which you can adapt easily for your own use! Following examples and guidelines from previous lessons you'll be guided through the planning and organizing stages to design your own perfectly personalized unit study. Planning sheets as well as generic reproducibles to tailor to your needs are provided to download, print, or adapt!

Included in this lesson:

7-1 Introduction

7-2 Early Planning: Developing Objectives to Match Your Vision
* Creating the Vision
* Developing Objectives
* the Research: Gathering What You Need

7-3 Weeding, Trimming, and Reaping the Harvest
* Narrowing the Focus
* Planning the Learning Activities
* Some Final Thoughts

7-4 Resources

7-1 Introduction

Objectives of this Lesson

Now that you have a handle on what constitutes a unit study and how to gather the material to create one, you'll be guided through each step of the creation of a unit study. You are encouraged to develop your own study as you study each section. By the end of this lesson you should have a good part of your own unit study ready to go in your own educational center of activity.

Recommended Resources

***Note: all books and reading assignments are optional and are provided as additional information for the student.

We will refer to ideas presented in our main text:

How to Create Your Own Unit Study by Valerie Bendt

However, each section is a complete hand-holding checklist of steps to take so the most important resources will be those listed links in the Resources Section which you'll want to use in the research and preparation of your study. It would also be helpful to print out or otherwise have handy the forms given in the text.

Preparation

No prior preparation is necessary. However, do gather any of the resources listed in the Resources Section so you'll be ready to apply them to your own study.