Unit Map Templates:

Contents

Select desired template:

• Unit Map - 5 Topics
• Unit Map - 6 Topics
• Current Context Unit Map (Use historical case studies to understand current reality)

Notes & Resources

Note: if you want just a single map, delete the unused slides or copy the desired slide to a new Google presentation.

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Course Question:

Unit 6?

What …?

is about

Course Teaching Thesis:

Unit 5:

How …?

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Unit 1:

How …

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Unit 4:

How … ?

Unit 3:

How … ?

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Unit 2:

What …?

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• Exxx
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5-Topic Unit Template

Main theme of the unit

Lesson or Topic Three

- Main content 1

- Main content 2

- Main content 3

Focus Q: Enter lesson focus Q that helps student answer unit and course Qs?

HT:

Next Unit

Prior Unit

This Unit

Course-Level Question: Enter course question here

Lesson or Topic Five

- Main content 1

- Main content 2

- Main content 3

Focus Q: Enter lesson focus Q that helps student answer unit and course Qs?

HT:

Lesson or Topic One

- Main content 1

- Main content 2

- Main content 3

Focus Q: Enter Focus Q that helps student answer foc unit and course Qs?

Historical Thinking (HT):

​

is about

Connection

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Connection

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Connection

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Connection

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Connection

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Lesson or Topic Four

- Main content 1

- Main content 2

- Main content 3

Focus Q: Enter lesson focus Q that helps student answer unit and course Qs

HT:

Lesson or Topic Two

- Main content 1

- Main content 2

- Main content 3

Focus Q: Enter lesson focus Q that helps student answer unit and course Qs?

HT:

Historical Thinking (The Big 6)

- List main concepts used in unit

Unit Focus Question: Enter unit focus question here. Question connects to course question and focuses unit content.

Teaching Thesis: Enter teaching thesis. Ideally it is a statement that connects the main topics using the ‘connector’ words in the unit map. Be sure the thesis statement answers the focus question and can be arrived by students from the topics and content you map in the unit.

6-Topic Unit Template

Historical Thinking (The Big 6)

- List main concepts used in unit

Unit Focus Question: Enter unit focus question here. Question connects to course question and focuses unit content.

Course-Level Question: Enter course question here

Teaching Thesis: Enter teaching thesis. Ideally it is a statement that connects the main topics using the ‘connector’ words in the unit map. Be sure the thesis statement answers the focus question and can be arrived by students from the topics and content you map in the unit.

Main theme of the unit

Lesson or Topic Five

- Main content 1

- Main content 2

- Main content 3

Focus Q: Enter lesson focus Q that helps student answer unit and course Qs?

HT:

Lesson or Topic One

- Main content 1

- Main content 2

- Main content 3

Focus Q: Enter lesson focus Q that helps student answer unit and course Qs?

Historical Thinking (HT)

is about

Connection

​

Connection

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Connection

​

Connection

​

Connection

​

Lesson or Topic Four

- Main content 1

- Main content 2

- Main content 3

Focus Q: Enter lesson focus Q that helps student answer unit and course

HT:

Lesson or Topic Two

- Main content 1

- Main content 2

- Main content 3

Focus Q: Enter lesson focus Q that helps student answer unit and course Qs?

HT:

Lesson or Topic Three

- Main content 1

- Main content 2

- Main content 3

Focus Q: Enter lesson focus Q that helps student answer unit and course Qs?

HT:

Connection

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Next Unit

Prior Unit

This Unit

Lesson or Topic Three

- Main content 1

- Main content 2

- Main content 3

Focus Q: Enter lesson focus Q that helps student answer unit and course Qs?

HT:

Current Context Unit Template

Main theme of the unit

Historical Case Study Two

- Main content 1

- Main content 2

- Main content 3

Focus Q: Enter lesson focus Q that helps student answer unit and course Qs?

HT:

Next Unit

Prior Unit

This Unit

Course Question: Enter course question here

Contemporary Implication: Learning from the Past

- Main content 1

- Main content 2

- Main content 3

Focus Q: Enter lesson focus Q that helps student answer unit and course Qs?

HT:

Current Issue

- Main content 1

- Main content 2

- Main content 3

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Focus Q: Enter Focus Q that initiates investigation of current context

Historical Thinking (HT):

​

is about

Through examining

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and exploring historical example of

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and exploring historical example of

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and exploring historical example of

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Results in

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Historical Case Study Three

- Main content 1

- Main content 2

- Main content 3

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Focus Q: Enter lesson focus Q that helps student answer unit and course Qs

HT:

Historical Case Study One

- Main content 1

- Main content 2

- Main content 3

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Focus Q: Enter lesson focus Q that helps student answer unit and course Qs?

HT:

Historical Thinking (The Big 6)

- List main concepts used in unit

Teaching Thesis: Enter teaching thesis. Ideally it is a statement that connects the main topics using the ‘connector’ words in the unit map. Be sure the thesis statement answers the focus question and can be arrived by students from the topics and content you map in the unit.

Unit Focus Question: Enter unit focus question here. Question connects to course question and focuses unit content.

Current Context Unit Template

Main theme of the unit

Historical Case Study Two

- Main content 1

- Main content 2

- Main content 3

Focus Q: Enter lesson focus Q that helps student answer unit and course Qs?

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Next Unit

Prior Unit

Course Question: Enter course question here

Contemporary Implication: Learning from the Past

- Main content 1

- Main content 2

- Main content 3

Focus Q: Enter lesson focus Q that helps student answer unit and course Qs?

Current Issue

- Main content 1

- Main content 2

- Main content 3

​

Focus Q: Enter Focus Q that initiates investigation of current context

​

is about

Through examining

​

and exploring historical example of

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and exploring historical example of

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and exploring historical example of

​

Results in

​

Historical Case Study Three

- Main content 1

- Main content 2

- Main content 3

​

Focus Q: Enter lesson focus Q that helps student answer unit and course Qs

:

Historical Case Study One

- Main content 1

- Main content 2

- Main content 3

​

Focus Q: Enter lesson focus Q that helps student answer unit and course Qs?

​

Teaching Thesis: Enter teaching thesis. Ideally it is a statement that connects the main topics using the ‘connector’ words in the unit map. Be sure the thesis statement answers the focus question and can be arrived by students from the topics and content you map in the unit.

Unit Focus Question: Enter unit focus question here. Question connects to course question and focuses unit content.

This Unit

Notes & Resources

• Single Map: If you want just a single map, delete the unused slides or copy the desired slide to a new Google presentation.
• Create unit map collection for entire course in one place
• Duplicate desired slide to add new units
• Can link to unit maps from Course map (move to top slide)
• Eliminate (or move to bottom) any slide you don’t want to use
• Create links from objects or text on slides
• Link to slides in this collection (eg. from course map to unit slides)
• Link to Google drive or web resources
• To create link:
• Select shape or text
• Menu: Insert → Link (or click the link icon )
• Select “Slides in this presentation) or paste external link
• Note: if linking from a shape, be sure you aren’t in typing mode
• Dynamic Map Template
• Includes Course Map, Linked Unit Maps and other detail slides
• Map “Connector Words”

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