Unit Plan Template
Recently, the CA Content Standards for science for 7th and 8th graders had changed, and it was very difficult trying to organize everything to finish this assignment. Life science isn't strictly taught at the 7th grade level anymore, so I had to alter my ideas accordingly to accommodate the new changes. My initial plan was to focus on the Growth, Development, and Reproduction of Organisms. However, after I had started my unit plan, I realized that it was too much information to give to my students at one time and did not want to overload them. In the end, I decided that I had to break it into four chunks, turning my unit plan into more of a "sub-unit" plan, as I focused more on the Growth and Development of Organisms (Content Standard LS1.B). Although I only explored the first topic in this assignment, I was able to use my lessons to bridge into the other 3 topics mentioned in the unit plan.