Examining Curriculum Materials: Category IV: Developing and Using Scientific Ideas
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
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Indicators - What must a material do to meet the criterion? |
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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 |
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Criterion C: Representing ideas effectively Does the material include accurate and comprehensible representations of the learning goals?
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1. The material includes accurate representations related to the learning goals (or asks students to critique representations that are not accurate).
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2. The representations are likely to be comprehensible to students.
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3. The material asks students to consider what the representations show and do not show or invites them to compare the representations to what is being represented..
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4. The representations clearly distinguish between accurate ideas in the learning goals and common naïve alternatives describe in the learning research literature.
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