Differentiation Units

The Unit "We're All in It Together" looks interesting to me.  It is a social studies unit that builds on students existing knowledge about communities.  

    the students will know: places within a community, roles within a community and community vocabulary. 

The students will understand that people have needs and wants that are met by the dif. roles in a community, dif. roles provide for a community in dif. ways, Each role is important, without certain roles the community will suffer, All roles rely on each other, people have a responsibilty to cooperate in order for the community to run effectively. 

The students will be able to, explain components of a community, compare, contrast and evaluate community roles, draw conclusions, work cooperatively and independently, write a letter, write directions, use a phone book, analyze a problem, identify and describe own role in community, write/speak persuasively, role-pay. 

I also liked the unit on geometry where it encourages hands on experiences rather that just the "worksheet approach"  

The students will know: the attributes of all lines, types of angles, circle and circle parts, congruent and symmetrical shapes, distinguishing characteristics of polyhedrons, dif. rules for grouping polygons and polyhedrons. 

The students will understand: shortest distance btwn 2 points is a straight line, geometry and symmetry found in nature, structure to everything, using geometric terms is one way to describe structure of our environment, geometry is important in careers, relationship btwn shape of an object and its use. 

The students will be able to: Describe, draw, compare and classify geometric objects, communicate with geometric terms, gather, analyze and apply geometric info in problem solving, work cooperatively in pairs and small groups, establish a project plan and follow it. 

I like that they give examples of many different topics in all these units. I think that this can be a  great resource for us to see examples of units that are differentiated already.