Does the material include suggestions for teachers to find out what their students think about familiar phenomena related to key ideas before they are introduced?

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Indicators of meeting the criterion

1. The material includes specific questions or tasks that could be used by teachers to identify students' ideas.
2. The questions/tasks are likely to be comprehensible to students who have not studied the topic and are not familiar with the scientific vocabulary.
3. The questions/tasks are identified as serving the purpose of identifying students' ideas.
4. The material includes questions/tasks that ask students to make predictions and/or give explanations of phenomena (rather than focus primarily on identifying students' meanings for terms).
5. The material suggests how teachers can probe beneath students' initial responses to questions or interpret student responses (e.g., by providing annotated samples of student work).

Rating Scheme
Excellent: The material provides a sufficient number and variety ^[4] of questions/tasks that meet indicators 1 and 2 and meet indicators 3–5.
Satisfactory: The material provides some questions/tasks that meet indicators 1–4.
Poor: The material provides some questions/tasks that meet indicator 1 or indicators 1 and 2.

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