Term Outline for @Home Screencasts

Here is an example of how I divide content and outline my units. I try to only have students watch three lectures (screen-casts) at home per week. Occasionally there will be 4, in addition they have other work that they complete while watching the screen-casts  I set a due date of Fridays for weekly lectures. Students are encouraged to complete them before coming to class for the week, but their learning is not impacted if they do them over the course of the week. They have a checklist for the term on when things are due so that they can keep track of their progress, and work ahead if they choose. Here is a sample of how I broke up the lectures students watch for the first term:

Unit	Week	Due Date	@Home Screen-casts
Introduction	1	September 14	Social Sciences Skills of an Historian Tools of an Historian
Archaeology	2	September 21	Archaeology Important Findings *Master Test 1 Due
Early Man	3	September 28	Very Early Man Old Stone Age The Neanderthals
Early Man	4	October 5	Cro-Magnon Man Cave Paintings Neolithic Age *Mastery Test 2 Due
Mesopotamia	5	October 12	Introduction Geography Rise of Sumer
Mesopotamia	6	October 19	Religion Education Family Life
Mesopotamia	7	October 26	Gilgamesh Sargon I Hammurabi Contributions *Mastery Test 3 Due
Mesopotamia: Later Mesopotamian Empires	8	November 2	Hebrews Phoenicians *Mastery Test 4 Due
Mesopotamia: Military Empires	9	November 9 Term Ends Nov. 11	Assyrians Chaldeans Persians *Mastery Test 5 Due