Unit Plan: Map Concepts & Analysis Submitted By: Zachary Haro

Nevada State College EDEL 453 - Spring 2014 Karen Powell- Instructor
Unit Plan: Reflection Page
1. Where did you get the ideas and materials for this unit plan? Include website
names, URLs, book titles and authors.
I got the majority of the ideas and materials for this unit plan from the
Houghton Mifflin social studies text book teacher edition, and the course text
Integrating Language Arts & Social Studies. The rest of my ideas for activities
and assessments were inquiry based teaching strategies from other courses,
and Kagan strategies from my mathematics concepts course.



2. What were the easiest and most challenging parts of writing this unit plan?
The easiest part of writing this unit plan was writing the actual Planner part of
it. It was all copy and paste, and really opened my eyes as to how easy
making and organizing a unit can be. The most challenging part was writing
5 lessons that intertwined with each other enough to cover all the same
standards for the week. Making each one different enough so that my
students wont be bored was difficult as well, but I tried to incorporate as
many effective strategies as I could.



3. What suggestions do you have for yourself for the next time you write unit
plans?
Some suggestions I would have for myself would be to choose the standards
and write the planner first. The planner for me serves as a kind of graphic
organizer that I can build my lessons off of, and when I did this unit plan I did
it totally backwards. I would also make sure that try to use a lot of the same
strategies throughout the week because students function better when they
know what to expect. I observed that in a classroom after I had already
written my lesson plans, but it is something that I will definitely incorporate
next time.