UbD: Chapter 7

This chapter directly relates to what we are working on in class at the moment so I found i to be very useful. This chapter really gave me a better understanding of what we are doing and why. To begin with the essentials question in creating understanding are very important because they lead to smaller or larger areas of information that can be explored within a subject. Under the six facets of learning I really liked the example it showed of brainstorming for the six facets of learning. They were simple questions, but can be used to expand into a larger topic and lesson. Then came the WHERETO which is very important because it allows teachers to not only put together a lesson but as they are doing it makes them realize what the students will learn from it and how to go about doing that learning. This chapter helped me to "pull it all together" as one of the sub titles in the chapter states.