1. FINDING RESOURCES Now that you have written the outline of your unit, it is time to find resources that you can use to support your unit and flesh out your lessons. What caption would you write for this picture?

2. WHY SHOULD WE FIND RESOURCES? We can find resources for: Our students to use in completing the activities and culminating tasks that we already developed Ourselves to use when we are writing units Include your resource list on the last page of the UBD template. This lets other teachers better utilize your units.

3. TEXTBOOKS – FOR WRITING UNITS Look at the word problems Special “investigations” Teacher edition Example: 7th Grade Math textbook, Percents chapter: Many health authorities recommend that a healthy diet contains no more than 30% of its Calories from fat. If Jennie consumes 1,500 Calories each day, what is the maximum number of Calories she should consume from fat? (Glencoe Mathematics Course 3, page 222)

4. OUR FAVORITE WEBSITES Google Google (e.g. search for “math art middle school ubd”) Know how to effectively search Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com)http://scholar.google.com Search scholarly journals/periodicals Google Books (http://books.google.com)http://books.google.com Full-text and previews of many books Amazon.comAmazon.com or Barnes and Noble (www.BN.com) Search for books and have your Magnet specialist order them

5. COLLABORATION WITH EXPERTS Public organizations MTA/NYC Transit, DEP/EPA Cultural Institutions Museums, Moveable Museum Hall of Science Art Galleries Corporations ConEd Sony Banks Call them and see if they are willing to do a school visit

6. PUBLIC LIBRARY E-RESOURCES NYPL.org, QueensLibrary.org Full Text Databases: JSTOR, EBSCO, ProQuest Journals Newspapers/Magazines Statistical information Digital Media E-books and Audio books PC/Mac/iPod/Burn to CD Streaming/Downloadable video TumbleBooks Animated, talking picture books Standardized test prep and practice

7. NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY Unique Offerings Bookflix Classic fictional video storybooks and Scholastic e-books Freegal Music 3 downloads per week from catalog of Sony Music Digital Gallery 700,000 images, manuscripts, maps, posters etc.

8. AFFORDABLE CONTENT If the library resources are inadequate… Amazon Unbox Video $1.99 episodes Purchase once, share with many History Channel, NatGeo, Science Channel, Discovery, etc. iTunes More convenient for Mac schools Mostly $1.99 episodes, share with limited number of peers PodCasts free Netflix Non-fiction and documentaries

9. OTHER WEBSITES MoMA.org Modern Teachers Online The Online Collection Destination Modern Art MetMuseum.org Verizon Thinkfinity www.thinkfinity.org Lesson plans, PD, and activities

10. UNIQUE ONLINE TOOLS Web 2.0 Tools ietherpad Debategraph Wetransfer Scribd Keepvid Organize and share websites with students! http://edudemic.com/2010/07/the-35-best-web-2-0-classroom-tools-chosen-by-you/