Including Instructional Planning and Sequence By Duplass

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Including Instructional Planning and Sequence By
Duplass

• Putting it all together to create a powerful
  social studies program

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Instructional Unit set of related activities
with a unifying element

• 5 Principles for Planning
• 1. Units should be integrated
• 2. Each unit should be clearly defined
• 3. Activities should follow logical sequence
• 4. Feature a variety of Instructional Resources
• 5. Whole-group, small-group, and individual
  activities

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Clearly Defined Units Have

• Historical focus
• Person/People
• Location
• Question/ Problem
• Things
• Concept/Theme

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Logical Sequence Activities

• Determine what the students know and want to know
  by using
• K-W-L Chart
• Open-ended journal prompts
• Discussion

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Sequence of Unit

• Beginning- establish time and place
• (time lines, maps, globes)
• Middle- whole, small, and individual group
  activities
• (writing, visual and performance arts)
• Conclusion- introduce next unit
• (finish K-W-L chart, relationship between
  units, small-group and individual projects,
  acting in plays, writing and drawing,evaluation)
• In the back of the Duplass book there are
  resources for lesson planning.

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2 Reasons for using a variety of Instructional
Resources

• Units will be more enhanced and appealing
• Meet needs of highly diverse students
• Examples charts, graphs, maps, films,
  photographs, field trips, community resources,
  web quest, guest speakers, and childrens
  literature and informational books