Then as a PLC team, you can develop common essential questions, activities, formative assessments, and learning experiences to be used in your classes.You will also be able to work more closely with your colleagues to ensure that you are aligning your lessons to the standards.By unpacking the standards in your PLC groups, you will have the benefit of having meaningful conversations with your colleagues about the standards.Unpacking the standard is the first of many steps in setting up curriculum in UBD.Example: Why do you live here? What factors would cause you to move to another area?.Example: How does where you live, influence who you are?.Essential questions are open ended and designed for students to draw on their own experiences to allow for deeper understanding of the content.As a result of unpacking the standard, meaningful essential questions can be rendered.By unpacking the standard in this fashion, we now have a larger conceptual lens through which we can explore any geographic region over time and compare regions.Standard Unpacked: The geography, climate, and natural resources of a region influence the lifestyle, culture, and economy of its inhabitants.World Geography Standard: The student will analyze the regional development of Asia, Africa, the Middle East,, Latin America, and the Caribbean, in terms of physical, economic, and cultural characteristics and historical evolution from 1000 A.D.What Essential Questions will engage the student to achieve mastery?.How are students going to use the content?.Unwrapping aids in determining instruction.
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