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Thematic Unit Plan

Nonnie K Jones
Ivy Tech Community College

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INTASC Standard
Standard #7: Planning for Instruction
The teacher plans instruction that supports every student in meeting rigorous learning goals by
drawing upon knowledge of content areas, curriculum, cross-disciplinary skills, and pedagogy, as
well as knowledge of learners and the community context.

Name of Artifact: Thematic Unit Plan

Date: September 13th, 2015
Course: EDUC 255
Brief Description: For this specific assignment I created a thematic unit. For my thematic plan I
choose for my unit to be about awesome Dinosaurs. I created it based of the childrens book,
How Do Dinosaurs Play with Friends? I will include the Indiana Academic Standards that the
activity will meet in the unit.
Rationale- To document my understanding of Intasc Standard #7, Planning for Instruction, I
chose to include my thematic unit plan assignment. This indicates that I understand how to plan
for instruction appropriately. It also shows I am able to meet the learning goals of the children.

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Thematic Unit Plan

Language Arts
Read How Do Dinosaurs
Play With Friends and
evaluate the right way
to play with friends.
Social Studies
Speak about who
found Dinosaur
bones and locate
where Dinosaur
bones were found.

Art
Create a picture of
Dinosaurs playing with
friends.
Theme:Dinosaurs
2nd Grade
How Do Dinosaurs Play
With Friends?
By: Jane Yolen
Board book August 1,
2006
Music
Create and sing a song
about Dinosaurs. Listen
to Dinosaur sounds

Science
List Dinosaur names

Mathematics
Demonstrate
addition/ subtraction
by adding and
subtracting Dinosaur
bones.

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Indiana Academic Standards

Language Arts (Reading)

2. RF.1 Demonstrate an understanding of the five components of reading (print concepts,
phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, and fluency and comprehension) to build
foundational reading skills.
2. RL.4.1 Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to
demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot

Social Studies
Standard 1 History Students differentiate between events that happened in the past and
recently, recognize examples of continuity and change in local and regional communities, and
consider ways that people and events of the past and present influence their lives
2.1.3 Identify individuals who had a positive impact on the local community
2.1.7 Read about and summarize historical community events using a variety of resources (the
library, digital media, print media, electronic media, and community resources).

Mathematics
2. NS.1: Count by ones, twos, fives, tens, and hundreds up to at least 1,000 from any given
number.
2. CA.1: Add and subtract fluently within 100.

Music
Standard 1
K.1.4 Sing short memorized songs, maintaining a steady beat.

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Standard 4
K.4.2 Create a short melodic pattern to sing or play on a classroom instrument based on a limited
pitch range such as a minor third or the pentatonic scale.

Art
Standard 1
K.1.1 Explore art as a visual record of human ideas.
K.1.2 Speculate on the function of a work of art.

Science
2.3.2 Compare and contrast details of body plans and structures within the life cycles of plants
and animals.