Thematic Units Wiki

Welcome to the Thematic Units Wiki
This wiki site can help you develop thematic units for your classroom lesson plans and activities. A wiki is a page collaboratively edited through a web browser. Any user may create, edit, or delete content for the entire community. Other websites may have their own thematic unit content, but their content is static. Only the owner of that site can edit the content. However, this site is different. As a wiki, all of the content found here is customizable!

There will be different pages to organize information, and some other pages to assemble that information into comprehensive lesson plans.



What is a thematic unit?
A thematic unit is a teaching tool used to incorporate a particular theme, topic, or idea to lesson plans. The theme may last any amount of time from a week, to a month, or even longer. This teaching tool is based on the idea that people learn new ideas better if they can apply the new ideas to past experiences. It involves including a theme (apples, farm animals, plants, etc.) with the typical curriculum areas (language/literacy, social studies, math, science, etc.) to tie together and apply the knowledge gained to prior experiences.