Without a good road map, a car trip can be a wild adventure into the great unknown. While a wild adventure may be interesting, you’re likely to take a few wrong turns and maybe even miss your destination! Don’t let this happen to the students in your class. Give them the road map they need with the Unit Organizer Routine. At the heart of this routine is a form called a Unit Organizer—a road map, if you will — depicting how a particular unit in a course is structured. It shows the different components of the unit that is about to be taught and outlines a schedule of activities for the unit. In addition, it contains space for the name of the unit most recently completed as well as the name of the unit to be studied next. To make the journey more meaningful, students help the teacher construct this map at the beginning of a unit, and add to it as they progress through the unit. As a result, they have a clear idea of what they are learning and how that information relates to other information in the unit as well as to the information in other units.