The National Science Education Standards set broad content goals for teaching grades K-12. This volume provides a procedure to help education decisionmakers evaluate and choose materials for the science classroom. It includes a guide outlining the entire process for school district facilitators, and provides review instruments for each step.
"Selecting Instructional Materials" explores how purchasing decisions are influenced by parent attitudes, political considerations, and the marketing skills of those who produce and sell science teaching materials. It will be indispensable to state and local education decisionmakers, science program administrators and teachers, and science education advocates.
