ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the method for planning a unit that incorporates that pattern language. In B. Hokanson's words, planning with simpler media such as paper is superior because simpler media “impose less of their own structure on the interchange and allow a freer form of idea development”. When planning visually for a specific unit, it is easy to think of engaging tasks that will hook students into the learning process and develop their intrinsic motivation to learn. Depending on the grade level, teachers typically break such periods into two or three segments, including time for students to work on their own. Teachers are the biggest influence on the classroom ethos and, with their students they build one kind of ethos or another every school year from the first day of school onward. In honesty, the first words on unit design came from the hundreds of architects and designers who worked long before any of began teaching.
