ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how to determine the desired results. Determining the desired results is the first step in developing units using backward design. This includes determining the big ideas and developing overarching and topical enduring understandings and essential questions. An analysis of early learning standards is needed to determine the big ideas, enduring understandings, and essential questions that are embedded within the standards. But what standards should be grouped when teaching a unit? This chapter includes a technique for bundling, unpacking, and prioritizing the standards. The chapter is full of illustrative examples, including examples of enduring understandings and essential questions that are developmentally appropriate for children in the early childhood years. A section is also included about relevant enduring understandings and essential questions for those teaching early childhood educators.
