Name: _Felicia Flary______

UBD Unit Planning Template

Stage 1 - Desired Results
Enduring Understanding:
Grade Level: Second Grade
Homelessness exists in our world

Engineering is complex and intricate

Essential Questions:
How to I make a building that is
strong, stable and cost effective?

Content Areas Addressed (at least

2):
Science
Social Studies

What are the struggles of the

homeless or those in poverty in our
country?

Common Core and/or Illinois

Standards (depending on subject
be sure to include all content areas):
15.C.1b Identify limitations in resources.

Unit Objectives (label with the

assessment number in Stage 2):

15.A.2c Describe unemployment.

Develop a prototype that meets the

needs of people that are homeless in
the community (Assessment 3)

18.C.1 Describe how individuals

interacted within groups to make choices
regarding food, clothing and shelter.
1 18.B.2b Describe the ways in which
institutions meet the needs of society.
18.B.1b
Identify major social institutions in the
community.

Plan and conduct an investigation to

2describe and classify different kinds
PS1of materials by their observable
1.
properties
2- Analyze data obtained from testing
PS1- different materials to determine

Determine what materials build a

strong and stable structure/building
(Assessment 1)
Discuss how cost effects the type of
building materials that are available for
building (Assessment 2)

Name: _Felicia Flary______

2.

which materials have the properties

that are best suited for an intended
purpose

Stage 2 Assessment Evidence (name the three kinds of assessment you

have chosen and provide a brief description of these assessments).
Remember, each assessment MUST assess all subjects in your unit. One
assessment MUST involve technology.
Assessment #1:
Assessment #2:
The interior proto-type of the
The first assessment will be the
homeless shelter that includes the
write up students do in order to
items they believe are necessary to
explain what their homeless shelter
accommodate a certain number of
prototype might need.
people who are seeking shelter.
Assessment #3:
This last assessment is the budget
students have to make in order to
determine what kind of materials to
use in order to build the shelter and
also to determine what is going
inside the shelter.
Stage 3 Learning Plan (briefly outline your unit in the two boxes below)
How Many Lessons of What Length? Bullet Your Lesson Plans (specify
which lesson you will be submitting
This will be a semester length unit
as a full lesson plan):
comprised of science activities about
building strong stable structures as well The lesson plan outlines can be
as learning about the attributes of
seen in the course website:
homelessness as well as becoming
engineeringlocally.weebly.com
activists for people who are seeking a
place to stay.