Examining Curriculum Materials: Food For Plants

Examining Curriculum Materials: VB: Guiding Interpretation & Reasoning

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 V: Promoting Student Thinking about Phenomena, Experiences, and Knowledge Criterion B: Guiding student interpretation and reasoning Does the material include tasks and/or question sequences to guide student interpretation and reasoning about experiences with phenomena, representations, and ideas?	1. The material includes specific and relevant tasks and/or questions for the experience or reading.
	2. The questions or tasks have helpful characteristics such as framing important issues helping students to relate their experiences with phenomena or representations to presented scientific ideas helping students to make connections between their own ideas and the phenomena or representations observed helping students to make connections between their own ideas and the presented scientific ideas anticipating common student misconceptions focusing on contrasts between student misconceptions and scientific alternatives.
	3. There are scaffolded sequences of questions or tasks (as opposed to separate questions or tasks).