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E33S6 Today we take a deep dive in unit goals. Goals are the glue of an amazing unit. As such, goals should be clearly defined and decided upon before diving into a unit. Listen to find out more about essential questions, skills, standards and big ideas as unit end goals.  Show Notes Reminder, this is the last episode before we go on winter recess. Our projected date to resume is January 18th. In the mean time, catch up on past episodes! Below is the show's time 0:00 Intro 0:45 Episode introduction and welcome 1:48 Winter Recess reminder 2:10 Shout outs 4:30 Wins and Fails Segment 10:50 Let's get this party (errr...episode) started! 11:46 Goals as the heart of backwards planning 15:20 grade level teams making end-goal decisions 16:40 Essential questions 18:17 Examples of Essential Questions and big ideas 24:31 Skills and end goals 30:02 Standards 35:03 Big Ideas 44:24 Episode wrap up 45:54 Outro Resources: My grade level's Animal unit plans. You can look at the way we have crafted our essential questions: Cl