Part 1: Planning Pyramid

Grade or Level: Adult Learner

Unit Title: DAP Activities for Preschoolers

Description of unit…

To teach direct care teachers who are newly working with preschoolers what DAP means
and how to develop/implement activities within their classroom.

STAGE 1- STANDARDS/GOALS
What should students understand, know, and be able to do? Stage one identifies the desired
results of the unit including the related state content standards and expected performances,
enduring understandings, essential questions, knowledge and skills.

Content Standard(s)

Generalizations about what students should know and be able to do.

Content Standards Primary Expected Performances

Students will be able to

identify what Students will explore a variety of
“developmentally case studies in early childhood
appropriate” means. education and creating a Venn
Diagram that illustrates cases
that are developmentally
appropriate and cases that are
not.

Students will identify Students will divide into groups

cognitive activities that are
developmentally appropriate
for a preschooler and what is
not.
Students will classify
developmentally appropriate
activities for a preschooler for
a specific center area –
Dramatic Play, Blocks,
Science, Art, Manipulatives
and Outdoors.
Enduring Understandings
Insights learned from exploring
generalizations via the essential questions
(Students will understand THAT…)
K-12 enduring understandings are those
understandings that should be developed
over time, they are not expected to be
mastered over one unit or one year.
Overarching Enduring Understandings:
- Meaning of DAP
- How to create DAP activities and
environment
Unit Specific Enduring Understanding
- Create DAP activities for preschoolers
- Implement DAP activities for
preschoolers
- Create a DAP environment for
preschoolers
and chart what is
developmentally appropriate
and what is not. Each group will
present their activities to peers.
Each group will receive and
provide feedback to each other.
Students will be divided into
five separate groups and will be
assigned a specific center area.
Students will create 5 activities
for that center area and present
it to their peers. Each group will
receive feedback from the
instructor.
Essential Questions
Inquiry used to explore generalizations
 -
 What does developmentally appropriate mean?
 -Can you identify a developmentally appropriate
activity for a three-year-old?
 -Can you identify what is not a developmentally
appropriate activity for a three-year-old?
 Knowledge and Skills

What students are expected to know and be able to do

Knowledge
The students will know…
- The meaning of developmentally appropriate (DAP)
- How to create and implement activities for preschoolers

Skills
The students will be able to…

- Create DAP activities for a preschooler

- Implement DAP activities for a preschooler
- Create a DAP environment for a preschooler