The Science Educator’s Guide to Selecting High-Quality Instructional Materials

Overview

About the Guide

What makes a high-quality instructional material?

Evaluating Quality: Content Alignment and Instructional Support

Step 1. Determine whether the material addresses the science ideas that your students are expected to learn

Step 2. Determine whether the material has the potential to help students understand the science ideas

Step 3. Summarize your findings and recommendations

Tutorial

Forms

You can use the following forms to record your judgments on the content alignment and instructional quality of the material:

Individual Phenomenon or Representation:

Multiple Phenomena and Representations (Summary Table):

Phenomena : Excel table | Word table
Representations : Excel table | Word table