Unit plan
recipe

Utilise our School Foodies unit planning process to whip up a seamlessly crafted sequence of curriculum-aligned lessons tailored to your school context. Streamline your planning with our downloadable template, instructions, and resource links.

Download the School Foodies Unit Plan and populate the editable template as you follow the unit planning steps below.

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1

curriculum

Dig into the Curriculum Ingredients and begin by exploring the Curriculum Connections. As you select multiple subjects, consider inquiry questions or ‘big ideas’ that could be cultivated into a unit plan.

Explore curriculum

Copy and paste the achievement standards, strands and content descriptions into the School Foodies unit plan template.

2

Focus + unit overview

Select a School Foodies focus area and brainstorm initial ideas for the unit. These ideas will evolved as you peel, slice and mix unit plan ingredients.

Learn about FNE

Tick the chosen focus area for the unit and progressively complete the unit overview as the unit is developed.

3

ASSESSMENT OVERVIEW

Consider how students will demonstrate what they know and can do based on selected parts of  achievement standards.

Plan for summative assessment tasks that enable on-balance judgements about the quality of learning demonstrated by students.

Explore AC advice

Describe your assessment tasks and how they will enable students to demonstrate knowledge. Also include the conditions for assessment.

4

Resources

Now that you know where your unit is heading, it's time to gather tasty resources for your diverse students.

Use the FNE Resource Evaluation Tool to check your resources are credible, support a strength based approach and are inclusive.

Explore resources

Add resources for the unit in the box provided. This could include websites, picture books, videos or other resources.

5

Teaching + learning

Revisit identified aspects of the curriculum and sequence-aligned learning intentions to fit within your timeline.

Plan for teaching and learning that adopts a strength-based approach (utilising those inclusive resources you’ve gathered in the previous step).

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Complete the teaching and learning section of the unit plan, detailing each individual lesson in the boxes provided.

Congratulations – you’ve
made a scrumptious unit plan!

BON Appétit!