Universal Concepts and Generalizations

Upload a copy of your Big Idea Notes from the video. Be sure to include elaborated reflection on how adding the study of Universal Concepts and Generalizations to your curriculum will enhance students’ experiences. 

Print and fill out the Planning Template using what you plan to teach in the next few weeks. Be sure to show four different content areas, the overarching universal concept, the generalization for each content area, the icons you plan to use to focus student learning, the expert/disciplinarian for each content area, and any extension or independent work students can complete furthering their mastery. 

Dig deeper into your planning by creating a task statement for each content area in your planning template. A task statement includes a thinking skill, the content, an icon or two to focus student learning, and a final product to complete. For example, if a content area is science and your students are learning about the rock cycle:

Analyze the parallels, contributions, and patterns of rock formation and the insights geologists gain from fossils. Justify how a geologist might use the universal concept of change to verify the relationship between the rock cycle and fossils by creating an infomercial. 

If more information is needed to better understand how to create a task statement, click HERE to watch a video.

Write at least four task statements below. 

Thinking about the work you have done in this section in regard to planning for instruction using Universal Concepts and Generalizations, how do you plan to measure for student success? Elaborate on any checklists, rubrics, or systems you plan to use to show students’ understanding and growth throughout the lessons documented in your planning template.