Examining Curriculum Materials: Food For Plants

Examining Curriculum Materials: IVF: Providing Practice

Benchmark # & description: 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 F: Providing Practice Does the material provide questions and/or tasks in a variety of situations for students to practice knowledge or skills related to the learning goals?	1. The material includes questions or tasks for students to practice using knowledge or skills related to the learning goals in real world contexts.
	2. The material provides practice using unfamiliar contexts and questions or tasks (ones which students have not previously encountered) as well as familiar ones.
	3. The material makes it clear to the teacher and the students what precisely is being practiced.
	4. The material provides practice using sets of questions or tasks sequenced from simple to complex.
	5. The material provides students first with opportunities for guided practice with feedback and then with practice which gradually decreases the amount of support