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Brief Description of the Lesson/Unit

Goals
Why are you teaching this lesson or unit? What are its goals? What school, district, and/or state standards/benchmarks and outcomes are addressed? What new knowledge, skills, habits of mind, and attitudes do you expect students to gain?

Content
What important content will you teach in this lesson or unit? Will you present the content as a problem, theme, issue, or topic? What role will students play in selecting content? In what ways will this content promote worthwhile and engaged learning?

Prior Learning, Interests, Misconceptions, and Conceptual Difficulties
What student needs, interests, and prior learning are a foundation for this lesson or unit? What conceptual difficulties might students have? How will the lesson or unit address these?

Major Learning Activities
What worthwhile and engaging learning activities and tasks do you plan? What learning actions will they address? How will you use community and technological resources effectively to enhance students' learning?

Materials and Resources
Books and other familiar resources, community resources, and technology resources.

Assessment
What procedures will you use? How will you build them into the lesson? How will you guide students to assess themselves? How can technology enhance assessment?

Management
How will you manage students working in cooperative or collaborative groups? with partners? independently? How will you arrange the classroom physically? Where will students work: in the classroom, in the resource center, in a computer lab, or another location (e.g., at a museum)? How will you deal with students who need extra help? How will you help students who have special needs?

Support Services and Special Teacher Notes
What help will you need with computer hardware or with software, listservs, e-mail, the Internet, or other technology applications? What other help will you need, such as a special education teacher to advise or assist you with special students? What professional development opportunities would you like?

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