The Ontario Curriculum Unit Planner has been developed as a software application by the Ministry of Education to support educators in the development, sharing, and managing of instructional materials that help implement the Ontario curriculum. To this end, the Ministry has sponsored the development of curriculum units and course profiles, in conjunction with Boards of Education and the Ontario Curriculum Centre (OCC) and placed these units and profiles on the Ontario Curriculum Unit Planner (OCUP) website and/or the OCC website for public access and download.

1. Teachers, boards, associations, and organizations are welcome to copy, edit, and adapt these units and profiles created in the Planner – including individual activities (subtasks), combinations of activities (units), combinations of units (elementary programs and secondary course profiles), instructional materials (blackline masters, resources lists etc.) – for non-profit educational purposes.

2. Teachers, boards, associations, and organizations may copy, for educational purposes, any instructional materials (blackline masters, resources lists etc.) that were created as part of Ministry sponsored units/profiles separately to a disk for free distribution as long as the following statement which reflects the copyright and contextual integrity of the unit/profile, appears on the packaging of any such disk:

"The teaching materials included on this disk were originally part of instructional units created using the Ontario Curriculum Unit Planner and are copyright by The Queen's Printer for Ontario, 2001. They are made available on this disk with permission. In using these instructional materials, you may wish to consult the original units at www.ocup.org for the context provided in the original unit regarding teaching/learning and assessment strategies."

3. Teachers, boards, associations, and organizations may include and or combine their own developed units and profiles with Ministry-sponsored units and profiles (e.g., from OCUP/OCC) on a compilation CD under the following circumstances:

• the download of Ministry-sponsored units and/or profiles (e.g., from OCUP/OCC) to a disk for instructional, storage, and access purposes is for subject specific and limited purpose (e.g., family studies related units) that does not duplicate the entire content or province-wide purpose of the OCUP process and website;
• any products (e.g., CD-ROM, website or printed documents) that contain both Ministry-sponsored units and/or profiles (e.g., from OCUP/OCC) and units and/or profiles developed by teachers, boards, associations, and organizations must be offered at no cost except for duplication, shipping, and handling;
• other units and profiles by teachers, boards, associations, and organizations, developed independently of Ministry sponsorship, may be priced separately only when available separately.

4. Teachers, boards, associations, and organizations who develop complementary components [e.g., individual activities (subtasks), combinations of activities (units), instructional materials (blackline masters, resources lists, etc.] to Ministry-sponsored units and profiles and wish to offer them for sale are encouraged to package and identify the "value added" components of their work as discrete entities to allow for easy importing, exporting, copying, and managing of instructional materials by teachers using the Planner.

Compliance with © Queen's Printer for Ontario, 2003

Please also read the notice at www.gov.on.ca/MBS/english/common/queens.html