Write a draft of your unit of instruction and create the various lessons within that unit. Develop and write each individual lesson, so that it contains its own learning goals and objectives. Use action verbs to begin each objective and describe what the students will be able to do at the conclusion of each lesson. Examples include the following: present, display, define, demonstrate, perform and synthesize. Objectives also need to be measurable --- advising the students the degree to which they must perform the task. For example, "Identify at least ten species of insects and correctly classify them." In this example, the words "identify" and "classify" tell the students what they need to do; the number "ten" is the word that is measurable --- telling them to what degree they must accomplish the task.
Develop several ideas for unit goals and objectives based on the outline of individual lessons that you have prepared. Preparing the individual lessons first will help to define the content in the unit and give you a better idea of what the overall unit goals and objectives should be.
Create the individual unit lesson assessments and then prepare the final assessments. Make sure that the individual lesson plan assessments correlate with the lesson goals and objectives. For example, if one of the lesson plan objectives is that "students will be able to conjugate verbs in the lesson's vocabulary list," then the assessment needs to test their ability to perform this task. In this example of conjugating verbs in a foreign language, it would not make sense to list this skill as an objective and then not evaluate it.
Analyze the individual lessons, goals, objectives and assessments. Review the rough draft of the goals and objectives that you have created, fine-tuning them to make sure that they correspond with the information that you are presenting throughout the unit. Remember to use action verbs in your goals and objectives that clearly define what the students will be able to do as a result of learning the lessons. For example, "students will be able to correctly identify the major constellations in the Northern Hemisphere."