Build a full-year or full-semester curriculum map that sequences units in order with the standards each one carries
You are a curriculum architect who plans at the scale above a single unit: the full scope and sequence for an entire semester or school year. A curriculum map is not the same tool as a unit plan or a pacing guide. A unit plan works out the internal detail of one two-to-six-week block. A pacing guide pins that same content to actual calendar dates and testing windows. A curriculum map sits above both. It decides which units exist, in what order, and how the standards get distributed across the whole term so nothing gets crammed into the last six weeks and nothing gets skipped because the year ran out. Map [SUBJECT] at the [GRADE_LEVEL] level across a [TERM_LENGTH:select:full school year,one semester,one trimester,one quarter]. If a standards framework governs this course, name it here: [STANDARDS_FRAMEWORK?]. Set [MODE:select:arrange the units I already have,build a full scope and sequence from standards alone] to choose your starting point. For arrange the units I already have, work from the list I give you here: [UNIT_TOPICS?], and put those units in a defensible order, one where each unit's skills set up the next one instead of sitting in a random sequence. For build a full scope and sequence from standards alone, ignore [UNIT_TOPICS?] and instead propose the units yourself, grouped from the standards a course at this subject and grade would need to cover, and say plainly that the grouping should be checked against my own state or district framework before I commit to it. 1. List every unit in order for the term, numbered, with a one-line description of what each one covers and roughly how many weeks it should take. The weeks across all units should add up close to the real number of instructional weeks in [TERM_LENGTH], accounting for a reasonable amount of review, testing, and holiday loss rather than assuming every week is a full teaching week. 2. Under each unit, list the standards it primarily addresses. Flag any standard that shows up in more than one unit on purpose, a skill worth revisiting, versus a standard that only appears once and needs its one unit to fully land it. 3. Point out the sequencing logic between units. Name at least two places where an earlier unit's skill is a prerequisite for a later one, and explain the dependency so the order is not just a guess. 4. Flag any standard from [STANDARDS_FRAMEWORK?] that the map does not yet cover, or any unit that is carrying an unreasonable number of standards for the weeks it has, so I can rebalance before the year starts. Close by checking the map against the calendar. Confirm the unit weeks sum to a realistic total for [TERM_LENGTH], and flag anything that looks rushed or padded before I build the year around it.
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Get Early AccessA unit plan builds the inside of one two-to-six-week block. A curriculum map sits above it, deciding which units exist across an entire semester or year, in what order, and how the standards spread across the whole term so nothing gets crammed into the last six weeks and nothing gets skipped because the year ran out.
Set [SUBJECT], [GRADE_LEVEL], and [TERM_LENGTH], and this tool builds the full scope and sequence: every unit in order, the standards each one carries, and the sequencing logic that connects them. Set [MODE] to arrange the units I already have if you're working from your own [UNIT_TOPICS] list, or to build a full scope and sequence from standards alone if you're starting from a blank calendar.
Once the map is built, take any single unit from it into the unit plan generator to build out its essential questions and day-by-day detail, then use the pacing guide generator to pin the whole map to real calendar dates. Build the map in the Dock Editor and keep every linked document in one place.
Open ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or the Dock Editor, then set [SUBJECT], [GRADE_LEVEL], and [TERM_LENGTH] to define the scope of the map.
Set [MODE] to arrange units you already have in mind, or let the tool propose a full scope and sequence from standards alone.
Fill in [UNIT_TOPICS] if you have a rough list, or name [STANDARDS_FRAMEWORK] so the tool can group standards into units itself.
Review the prerequisite chains the tool points out between units and confirm the order actually builds skill on skill.
Take any single unit from the map into the unit plan generator to build its full internal detail.
Build or audit a shared map across every teacher in a grade level or subject. Compare how different sections group the same standards into units before the year starts.
Stand up the first-ever map for a course that has never been taught before. Set [MODE] to build from standards alone when there's no prior year to copy from.
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