• UbD Related Web Sites
  This site provides support for each phase of the Understanding by Design instructional planning templates. See Phase one for Curriculum development support based on understandings/big ideas.
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• 7th Grade Social Studies--2008-2009 Curriculum Roadmap -- U-46
  Not Broken link (Now a WIKI site, but can view) This is the curriculum map used by School District U-46. The curriculum is based on Essential Questions. (In the explanation of the template, these are defined, I think erroneously, as the big idea. Some of the statements in the Why column are the Big Ideas/Understandings.
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• 8th Grade American History--2008-2009 Curriculum Roadmap -- U-46
  this is the Curriculum Map used in IL School district U-46. It is based on Essential Questions. (They, I think erroneously are referred to as the big ideas.) Some of the statements in the Why column are big ideas/understandings, as taught in IRC courses.
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• Big Ideas in Beginning Reading
  This website is designed to provide information, technology, and resources to teachers, administrators, and parents across the country. Big Ideas in Beginning Reading focuses on the five BIG IDEAS of early literacy: phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, fluency with text, vocabulary, and comprehension.
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• What is the Big6(TM)? Information Literacy Model
  Developed by educators Mike Eisenberg and Bob Berkowitz, the Big6 is the most widely-known and widely-used approach to teaching information and technology skills in the world. The Big6 is an information and technology literacy model and curriculum, implemented in thousands of schools - K through higher education. Some people call the Big6 an information problem-solving strategy because with the Big6, students are able to handle any problem, assignment, decision or task.
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