Unit Plan: Traveling West : Then and Now

Submitted By: Nicole Sheehan

Unit Plan: Reflection Page

1. Where did you get the ideas and materials for this unit plan? Include website names, URLs, book titles and authors. I used the Integrating Language Arts and Social Studies book by Leah M. Melber & Alyce Hunter as well as the Social Studies books given for this course.
Houghton Mifflin 5th Grade Social Studies Book: United States History (p.400-403) for the lesson on Tuesday. I based the lessons around my Tuesday lesson I had written for you previously because I love the 5th grade level curriculum and I find this to be a very diverse topic you can go many places with.

Videos and materials from these sites: http://www.watchknowlearn.org/Video.aspx?VideoID=20874&CategoryID=5 423

http://www.webexhibits.org/butter/index.html

2. What were the easiest and most challenging parts of writing this unit plan? Making this unit plan took me SEVERAL days/ hours. It was very time consuming and I kept revising things to make it fit. I dont know if I am happy with the final choices I have made but its hard to be able to know regardless because I wont be able to test it out until I have my own classroom.

3. What suggestions do you have for yourself for the next time you write unit plans? I would like to be able to collaborate with a person who has experience, which might make it easier for me. However, I feel that it just takes a lot of practice for me to be able to really get how to do it and this assignment really pushed me to go for it and get that practice that I needed.

Nevada State College EDEL 453 - Spring 2014

Karen Powell- Instructor