CHAPTER 18MAKING CURRICULUM PHYSICAL: Delivering a Long-Range, Integrated, Design-Based Learning Curriculum

LONG-RANGE PLANNING BOARDS IN DEPTH

Long-Range Planning Boards matter. The time it takes to fabricate them is worth it, because this highly visual and tactile process invariably leads teachers to an invaluable “aha” recognition that developing a monthly integrated curriculum with Design-Based Learning is doable: “Look, I can teach spelling here,” “I can have students calculate measurements here,” or “I can connect a Design Challenge about Movement to a study of the human circulatory system here.”

Long-Range Planning Boards are large (approximately 30 × 20 inches each) to dramatize that a sequence of Design Challenges with cross-subject ...

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