Curriculum Materials

As we have discussed, the current store of curriculum materials for K-S science teachers is quite uneven. Analysis of science textbooks suggest that, by and large, those used in American classrooms are of a low quality. These texts typically lack coherent attention to concepts in favor of including many topics, and they rarely provide teachers with guidance about how students think about science (Kesidou and Roseman, 2002). Full-scale K-S or K-12 systems of science curricula do not typically

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