6th to 8th Grade - Gateway 3

Materials provide teacher guidance with useful annotations and suggestions for how to enact the student materials and ancillary materials, with specific attention to engaging students in figuring out phenomena and solving problems.

Materials contain adult-level explanations and examples of the more complex grade/course-level concepts and concepts beyond the current course so that teachers can improve their own knowledge of the subject.

Materials include standards correlation information, including connections to college- and career-ready ELA and mathematics standards, that explains the role of the standards in the context of the overall series.

Materials provide strategies for informing all stakeholders, including students, parents, or caregivers about the program and suggestions for how they can help support student progress and achievement.

Materials provide explanations of the instructional approaches of the program and identification of the research-based strategies.

Materials provide a comprehensive list of supplies needed to support instructional activities.

Materials provide clear science safety guidelines for teachers and students across the instructional materials.

Materials designated for each grade are feasible and flexible for one school year.

Assessment information is included in the materials to indicate which standards are assessed.

Assessment system provides multiple opportunities throughout the grade, course, and/or series to determine students' learning and sufficient guidance to teachers for interpreting student performance and suggestions for follow-up.

Assessments include opportunities for students to demonstrate the full intent of grade-level/grade-band standards and elements across the series.

Assessments offer accommodations that allow students to demonstrate their knowledge and skills without changing the content of the assessment.

Materials provide strategies and supports for students in special populations to support their regular and active participation in learning grade-level/grade-band science and engineering.

Materials provide extensions and/or opportunities for students to engage in learning grade-level/grade-band science and engineering at greater depth.

Materials provide varied approaches to learning tasks over time and variety in how students are expected to demonstrate their learning with opportunities for for students to monitor their learning.

Materials provide opportunities for teachers to use a variety of grouping strategies.

Materials provide strategies and supports for students who read, write, and/or speak in a language other than English to regularly participate in learning grade-level/grade-band science and engineering.

Materials provide a balance of images or information about people, representing various demographic and physical characteristics.

Materials provide guidance to encourage teachers to draw upon student home language to facilitate learning.

Materials provide guidance to encourage teachers to draw upon student cultural and social backgrounds to facilitate learning.

Materials provide supports for different reading levels to ensure accessibility for students.

This is not an assessed indicator in Science.

Materials integrate interactive tools and/or dynamic software in ways that support student engagement in the three dimensions, when applicable.

Materials include or reference digital technology that provides opportunities for teachers and/or students to collaborate with each other, when applicable.

The visual design (whether in print or digital) supports students in engaging thoughtfully with the subject, and is neither distracting nor chaotic.

Materials provide teacher guidance for the use of embedded technology to support and enhance student learning, when applicable.