Stage 3: The Learning Plan

Learning Plan-Stage 3

Supporting Students to Meet the Desired Outcomes

The final step of UbD is the Learning Plan. The learning plan includes all of the instructional materials and resources for the selected content, the instructional strategies to engage, motivate, and support students, and the activities that students will perform to become more skilled and knowledgeable about the enduring understandings and specific content.

The Learning Plan should provide a range of scaffolded learning opportunities that will support students to understand and apply the skills, knowledge, and understandings. They should also get practice in demonstrating their learning in forms appropriate to the assessment tasks. The Learning Plan is the most flexible and responsive part of the curriculum.

Think about and plan how you will meet the need of diverse learners. What universal design for learning will ensure equity in the learning environment.

The Learning Plan is NOT a set of completed lesson plans.

• It is a brainstormed sequence of the main activities in the unit, which will later be developed into your lesson plans.
• What learning experiences and instruction will enable students to achieve the desired results?

The Learning Plan from the UbD: What are Rational Numbers UbD example- Stage 3

1. Have students respond to: What do I already know about rational numbers, fractions, decimals, and percents?

2. Discuss student responses and revisit “What is a number?”

3. Introduce the essential questions, key terms, and the performance task

4. Present lesson on unit rates and its application to rational numbers

5. Discuss the various types of unit rates found in the real world

6. Present lesson on ratios and types of representation

7. Present lesson on using proportions to solve real-world problems

8. Assess students by having them take a quiz

9. Return and discuss quiz, clarify any misunderstandings

10. Academic Prompt: In what kind of situations would it be beneficial and not beneficial to use fractions, percents, and decimals?

11. Have students use research material that has already been gathered to begin working on performance task & answer any further questions

12. Present lesson on using percent proportions

13. Present lesson on converting fractions, decimals, and percents

14. Discuss the appropriate use of fractions, decimals, and percents.

15. Academic Prompt: Does it really matter what kind of rational number we use?

16. Present lesson on fractions of a percent & its use

17. Students take a brief quiz

18. Observe and watch students as they work on finishing their performance assessment

19. Return & discuss quiz with students, clarify any misunderstandings

20. Review with students concepts for upcoming test

21. Students take test on fractions, decimals, and percents

22. Conclude the unit with project presentations and completion of a self-evaluation

(Risinger, 2005)