Unit Organizer Resources:

VIDEO

• Check out this video about how to use the Unit Organizer in a digital classroom from RAISEup Texas
• Unit Organizer class demo - Carmen Cantrell Video
• Video: Sean Stricland presents a Math Unit Organizer
• 1995 SIM Conference: Course and Unit Organizer Research Video- Keith Lenz
• Video: The Unit Organizer (2002) Video
• Course Design and Implementation Video - Keith Lenz, Bev Colomb, Vicki Ricketts  2014
• Unit Organizer: Map Critical Content, Identify and Sort Concepts (00:03:24) - Gail Cheever
• Content Enhancement Supplements (02:04:24) - Colombo, Herod
• Cue: Unit Organizer, Ms. Atkins (00:00:49)
• Unit Organizer Overview (00:03:20) - Laura Friend, MS Science Teacher, Ferndale, WA
• Unit Organizer Overview by the VDOE T/TAC
• Montana Professional Development: The Unit Organizer Part 1 - Keith Lenz
• Montana Professional Development: The Unit Organizer Part 2
• Montana Professional Development: Introduction to the Unit Organizer
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXvrVqhMyik Kelsey Cooper - researched the UO for her school project
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOUCwUIZQ8g Testimonials
• Cue Unit Organizer - Lisa Atkins
• Do Unit Organizer - Lisa Atkins
• Review Unit Organizer - Lisa Atkins

PPTs

• Unit Organizer Routine presentation (ppt)
• Unit Organizer Routine blank device (ppt)
• Device Google Slide: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wGicNArTbaxGrqHz8OUAq9nv6tmM2qDQEa4dmf8m3P0/copy?usp=sharing

2021 SIMposium Session Materials

• Watch Video (Sue Meyer, Sarah Davidson)
• Session PPT
• Online Content Unit Organizer
• Cue Do Review Frame
• CRAFT Chalk Talk
• SMARTER Planning handout

MORE

• Access Content Enhancement Routine Checklists
• Connectors pdf
• Hotspots for UO
• UO PD Packet
• Intro to Content Enhancement Routines Unit Organizer Example
• Example Unit Organizers
• Description of the Unit Organizer from the SIM website
• Cathy Spriggs 2012 CE and CCSS session
  • UO ppt
• Unit Organizer Syllabus - Florida
• Kansas Project Success Unit Organizer presentation ppt
• DeMayo UO Break Down pdf
• A Unit Organizer Unit Organizer
• A Unit Organizer Pre-Planning guide
• More UO Examples
• UO Activity Sort
• Pass rates for students with disabilities using Unit Organizer in VA and here in different format

MICROCREDENTIALS

• Professional Learning
• Fidelity of Implementation
• Specialist

Stratenotes an Strategram

• StratenotesV2No9.pdf: a preview of the new Unit Organizer
• Stratenotes V6 No8: Using the Unit Organizer for Curriculum Mapping
• Strategram Vol. 7, No. 5, May 1995: The Unit Organizer Routine, Teaching More by Teaching through the Big Ideas

Assets from FLORIDA SPDG Livebinders:

Teacher can access Florida Live Binder assets. Share this link and password:

https://www.livebinders.com/play/play_shared_binder/722314?play_view=play Password CE UO

Cue Do Review

The overall instructional process that guides use of the CE device with the Routine’s Linking Steps.  This instructional process involves:

Cue:  teacher announces the CE routine and explains its use, how it will help students and expectations for student participation

Do: teacher and class collaboratively construct the device using the Linking Steps that “connect” the content to the needs and goals of students

Review: Information presented in the device is reviewed and confirmed, use of the device is reviewed and confirmed, use of the device as a learning and study tool is modeled

The Cue Do Review Frame

Cue Do Review Checklist

Cue Do Review Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfwOSwyAwyA

The Routine

Teaching presentation

Device Templates

Start with the ppt file with locked background. You will still need to create text boes for existing shapes and add new shpes and textboxes for boxes 5 and 9

Locked Background UO

UO Editable

Device Checklist

Fillable checklist

Examples

LDC Organizer Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems

LDC Unit Map

Linear Relationships

Solving Linear Equations

Inference Strategy UO pg 1

Infererence pg 2

Cell Cycle

Cell Cycle expanded map

Implementation Checklist

Fillable checklist

Connectors/Line Labels

Stratenotes article on Connectors and Line Labels

UO in Action VIDEO

Solar System https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2aBWLs-Mjg

Properties of Water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvYMRg0qqBA&t=67s

Unit Organizers and Interactive Notebooks

Conservation of Mass Frame

ELA  UO

FORCES

Kinetic Molecular Theory

Research

• Unit Organizer Routine Research slide
• Boudah, D.J., Lenz, B.K., Bulgren, J.A., Schumaker, J.B., & Deshler, D.D. (2000). Don't water down? Enhance content learning through the unit organizer routine. Teaching Exceptional Children, 32(3), 48-56. This article describes the Unit Organizer Routine and provides an example of how to use the routine, including planning tips, logistical suggestions, ideas for modification, assessment consideration, and a summary of supporting research.
• Boudah, D.J., Lenz, B.K., Schumaker, J.B., & Deshler, D.D. (2008). Teaching in the face of academic diversity: Unit planning and instruction by secondary teachers to enhance learning in inclusive classes. Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2(2), 74-91. This qualitative study indicated teachers began to think more carefully about content organization and difficulty of learning content when they were introduced to and began to use the Unit Organizer Routine.
• Lenz, B.K., & Adams, G. (2006). Planning practices that optimize curriculum access. In D.D. Deshler & J.B. Schumaker (Eds.), Teaching adolescents with disabilities: Accessing the general education curriculum (pp. 35-78). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. This chapter reviews issues related to planning for students with disabilities, different kinds of planning interventions, and studies on teacher planning, including a review of lesson planning, unit planning, and course planning research.
• Lenz, B.K., Adams, G., Bulgren, J.A., Pouliot, N, Laraux, M (2007) Effects of Curriculum Maps and Guiding Guestions on the Test Performance of Adolescents with LD