This year, additional to the everyday teaching I did, I also created three curriculum unit plans (CUPs) – two in social studies and one in engineering.

There was enormous learning and social-emotional growth within each unit, as well as between and across all units.

Please read on to see a detailed plan of my CUPs, as well as how my students learned, and what I learned as a teacher:

Civics: What does it mean to be a good ciitzen? 

Science: What does it mean to be a good engineer? 

Social Studies: What is culture? 

As you’ll read in these CUPs, the essential questions for each of these units are very broad. The intention behind a broad essential question is that it leaves space for discovery and focus my lessons as they dive deeper into the study, but still within the scope of our broader essential questions. These questions often allow for lessons that have a low threshold access point (so everyone can participate), but a high ceiling (so that each individual learner can take the learning where their capacity and interest take them.

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