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Tool: Exploring a unit's content expectations

Along with developing an understanding of "the Big Picture" for a particular unit, it is important to become familiar with the content expectations and the types of thinking, skills and capacities required of students. Although a certain amount of recall is necessary in learning, today's educators value learning that emphasizes higher-order thinking. Once you become more familiar with the content expectations you are working with, you will be in a better position to think about the relative emphasis on various types of learning across your unit.

Do the content strands or grade level content expectations seem to emphasize lower or higher level thinking?
What kinds of activities will you need to plan in order to support your students' learning in all these areas?
What kinds of activities does it make sense to emphasize?

Subject:		Unit:
Begin with a content strand or or Grade Level Content Expectation included in your unit overview (one content area or cross-content area), and work to the right.	What do students need to remember--recall, recite--to meet this standard? (Bloom’s recall and comprehend, Stein & company's low mental challenge)	What do students need to do--read, solve, create--to meet this standard? (Bloom's apply, Stein & company's medium mental challenge)	What do students need to understand--make connections, give reasons--to meet this standard? (Bloom’s analyze, synthesize, evaluate, Stein & company's high mental challenge)



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