Examining Curriculum Materials: IID - Taking Account of Student Ideas

Learning Goal:

Name of Material

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

Category II: Taking Account of Student Ideas

Criterion D: Addressing commonly held ideas

Does the material attempt to address commonly held student ideas?

 

 

1. The material explicitly addresses commonly held ideas.

 



 

2. The material includes questions, tasks, or activities that are likely to help students progress from their initial ideas, for example, by

  • explicitly challenging students' ideas, for example, by comparing their predictions about a phenomenon to what actually happens
  • prompting students to contrast commonly held ideas with the scientifically correct ideas, and resolve differences between them
  • extending correct commonly held ideas that have limited scope.

 



 

3. The material includes suggestions to teachers about how to take into account their own students' ideas.