Introduction | Curriculum Development | Conclusion

Curriculum Development: Step One | Step Two | Step Three | Step Four | Step Five

Step Five: Putting it All Together

By now you probably have a fair idea of what this unit is going to look like. The last step is to organize your objectives, activities and assessments into actual lessons.

There are many questions to consider:

• What will the teacher do? 
• What will the student do? 
• Are there some activities that could be either teacher or student directed?
• What technology will be used and how will it be accessed?
• How long will this take?

In addition, project-based learning has several typical characteristics that you should consider:

• Engaging opening to generate student interest
• Role playing/cooperative learning
• Research support/content learning
• Ongoing assessment

There are a variety of templates for developing units available online.

• From Thirteen Ed Online, a plan for creating an inquiry-based unit: http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/inquiry/implement_sub2.html.
• This project-based learning assessment tool can also help you organize a unit: http://www.essentialschools.org/cs/resources/view/ces_res/85
• NRTEC offers an excellent online lesson planning tool: http://www.ncrtec.org/tl/lp/. 

Conclusion