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Summary: Excellent Tool
Review: I recently showed this book to the Elementary principal in my building. She was extremely excited and wanted to know where to buy a copy. We have been trying to design a county curriculum but our school has mostly dropped out of this because of the lack of direction or design in the process.This book provides that direction and design. Although we may alter some things for our own curriculum, the idea of showing how understanding grows from kindergarten to the high school level is excellent. At many schools, including mine, there is no communication between grade levels. At my high school, this is not a problem, but only because I teach every single science course from grades 7-12. I am able to create a unified curriculum, and am using this book to help me in that process. I am finding much greater understanding, comprehension, and interest on the part of my students than I had before I started doing this. Most of the difficulties I have encountered are with the older students who are accustomed to a more "textbook-driven" curriculum from before I started teaching here. I am hoping to make this tool available to the elementary staff as well so that we can have a good (or at least unified) K-12 curriculum that develops ideas instead of just tossing out whatever concepts the textbook discusses.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent Tool
Review: I recently showed this book to the Elementary principal in my building. She was extremely excited and wanted to know where to buy a copy. We have been trying to design a county curriculum but our school has mostly dropped out of this because of the lack of direction or design in the process. This book provides that direction and design. Although we may alter some things for our own curriculum, the idea of showing how understanding grows from kindergarten to the high school level is excellent. At many schools, including mine, there is no communication between grade levels. At my high school, this is not a problem, but only because I teach every single science course from grades 7-12. I am able to create a unified curriculum, and am using this book to help me in that process. I am finding much greater understanding, comprehension, and interest on the part of my students than I had before I started doing this. Most of the difficulties I have encountered are with the older students who are accustomed to a more "textbook-driven" curriculum from before I started teaching here. I am hoping to make this tool available to the elementary staff as well so that we can have a good (or at least unified) K-12 curriculum that develops ideas instead of just tossing out whatever concepts the textbook discusses.
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Summary: Page Keeley, Science Specialist
Review: This book is a "must have" resource for science, mathematics, and technology educators who want to see the story of science teaching and learning unfold over time. These maps of ideas, which start with fundamental K-2 understandings, are constructed to show how ideas build over time, how they interconnect, which ideas lead to others, and what important prerequisites exist. This book will forever transform your thinking and planning for curriculum, instruction, and assessment. There is no other resource like this. Project 2061 has done it again- a simply elegant, extremely useful tool for standards-based educators!
Rating:
Summary: Page Keeley, Science Specialist
Review: This book is a "must have" resource for science, mathematics, and technology educators who want to see the story of science teaching and learning unfold over time. These maps of ideas, which start with fundamental K-2 understandings, are constructed to show how ideas build over time, how they interconnect, which ideas lead to others, and what important prerequisites exist. This book will forever transform your thinking and planning for curriculum, instruction, and assessment. There is no other resource like this. Project 2061 has done it again- a simply elegant, extremely useful tool for standards-based educators!
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