The best way to learn about integrating technology is to start making your own lesson plans! Check out our community for ideas -- and feel free to remix any lesson plan you find on this website (please acknowledge the original lesson plan's creator in your post).

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You may have noticed that our featured lesson plans are all activity-based. In fact, they follow the Understanding by Design (UbD) lesson planning process in order to enhance the student’s learning outcome (McTighe & Wiggins, 2012). You'll learn much more about the UbD process by following the above link, including some sample responses to our recommended questions below.

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If you'd like to try this process, try making your lesson plan backwards! Before considering which technology you'd like to try, first identify student’s desired learning results. In this lesson planning process, you should aim to answer questions 'backwards' from answering questions about the students' final objectives all the way to the actual planning of lesson activities.

 

See if you can answer the following Key Questions from the UbD White Paper, linked to above, as you progress through making your lesson plan:

 

Stage 1: Identify Desired Results

What should students know, understand, and be able to do? What is the ultimate transfer we seek as a result of this unit? What enduring understandings are desired? What essential questions will be explored in-depth and provide focus to all learning?

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Stage 2: Determine Assessment

How will we know if students have achieved the desired results? What will we accept as evidence of student understanding and their ability to use (transfer) their learning in new situations? How will we evaluate student performance in fair and consistent ways?

 

Stage 3: Plan the Learning Experiences and Instruction

How will we support learners as they come to understand important ideas and processes? How will we prepare them to autonomously transfer their learning? What enabling knowledge and skills will students need to perform effectively and achieve desired results? What activities, sequence, and resources are best suited to accomplish our goals?

What will your students know and be able to do after this lesson?

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