Selecting Instructional Materials For Teaching Science. Several panels addressed existing tools and approaches for meeting these challenges important elements of materials to consider and ways that lessons learned. Selecting learning materials teachers rely on textbooks lessons and activities to support classroom instruction often collecting personal favorites over years of working with a subject.
Science teachers often ask about instructional materials that will help them implement inquiry based instructional strategies and provide students with opportunities to develop the abilities and understandings of scientific inquiry. This chapter therefore begins with brief discussions of school science programs and the criteria used to design curricula. Several panels addressed existing tools and approaches for meeting these challenges important elements of materials to consider and ways that lessons learned.
It also is important to consider the context within which specific materials will be used.
4 guide to selecting instructional materials step 1. For states by states hereafter referred to as the ngss. Ngss lead states 2013 is a challenge for curriculum developers and the teachers schools and districts that seek the best choices for their students. It also is important to consider the context within which specific materials will be used.
