Content Sequencing and Curriculum Mapping

Start with format and scope

The Format and Presentation mind maps offer a starting point for this collection. One shows how information from needs and environment analysis feeds into the curriculum design process. Another focuses on choosing teaching and learning techniques and designing lesson plans. Read them together to see how planning moves from information gathering toward activities.

Next, follow the Scope and sequence flowchart. It sets out elements including aims, objectives, knowledge, skills, methods, resources and assessment. The Scope and sequence of the curriculum design mind map also presents these elements in relation to unit plans. Use the flowchart for an overview, then the mind map to look at the parts of a plan.

Explore sequencing and mapping

Content & sequencing uses a sports example to show skills and subskills. Sequencing the content in a course also includes skills such as listening, speaking, reading and writing, alongside subskills and strategies. Compare the branches to see how the resources organize content for a course.

The Curriculum Mapping mind maps bring together learning outcomes, learning opportunities, competencies and assessment. Their branches include lectures, self-learning, written work and portfolios. They offer another way to consider how parts of a curriculum relate to one another.

Use maps and questions together

This topic page has no quizzes, though quizzes appear as an assessment idea in the Curriculum Mapping maps. A self-written quiz can help you check terms from a map: answer your questions, then return to the branches to review the connections. For example, check how learning outcomes and learning opportunities appear in the mapping resources.

Within the curriculum development unit in Education and pedagogy, this topic brings sequencing and mapping into the wider design process. Choose a map and follow its branches as you plan your next study session.