Examining Curriculum Materials: IA - Unit Purpose

Learning Goal: Benchmark 5E6-8 #1: Food provides the fuel and the building material for all organisms. Plants use the energy from light to make sugars from carbon dioxide and water. This food can be used immediately or stored for later use.

Name of material: Food for Plants by Kathy Roth

Major Criterion

Indicators - What must a material do to meet the criterion?

Yes  or No

Justification and Citation

How does the material meet this indicator? OR

Why does this material fail to meet this indicator? Be sure to give specific examples

Criterion A:

Conveying unit purpose

 

Does the material convey an overall sense of purpose and direction that is understandable and motivating to students?

 

1. A problem, question, representation (or otherwise identified purpose) is presented to students.

 







2. The problem, question, representation (or otherwise identified purpose) is likely to be comprehensible to students.





3. The problem, question, representation (or otherwise identified purpose) is likely to be interesting and/or motivating to students.

 







4. Students are given an opportunity to think about and discuss the problem, question, representation (or otherwise identified purpose).







5. Most lessons are consistent with the stated purpose and those that are not are explicitly labeled as digressions.







6. The material returns to the stated purpose at the end of the unit.