Welcome to Science Unit Design! A wikied Social Science Unit Design!

Hi this is Daniel Rezac! I'm a middle school science teacher from Chicago. Welcome to the Science Design page. What I want is what all teachers want, to create a killer science unit for my guys for this fall! But, I want this process to be fun and collaborative, not just lonely me sitting in front of a computer all summer. So I figure, why not create a wiki, and have science teachers from all over the world collaborate to create the ULTIMATE science unit design?

Couple of rules here:

1.  I'd like to use the Understanding by Design (Wiggins and Mctighe) template for unit design. For a primer on UbD, check out the UbD_nutshell.pdf.

2.  Right now this is a public wiki, and there is no limit on users, although, I could institute one in the future, depending on how things go.

3.  Standards used: I think we should use National Science standards (then adapt them to our own, once we're done- just to be universal) .

4.  Let's shoot for 6/7th grade.

5. Due Date: August 15th (with a possible two week extension) Some of use might have varying start times to the year, so I'd like this to be done at least a few days before the new year.

First thing: Create a "New Page" for yourself, use the Team Member Template, and tell us who you are, and what your deal is.

Now let's get started!!! Start out on the BIG IDEA page: Let's brainstorm topics/subjects and what do we want our students to be able to do when this unit is done?

That's all I have at the moment-