If you are a fan or a student of “Understanding by Design” by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, you’ll be familiar with the UBD tree for instructional design. I partially developed one for a possible science lab design course for the online classroom. The UBD tree is complete from big idea, through two essential questions down to classroom activities.

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UBD Tree for Science Labs Online by Dan LaSota is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at https://ecampus.uaf.edu/go/ubd-sciab.

There’s also a bonus ten-slide presentation illustrating the design process.