Curriculum

The Science Curriculum Committee met on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 to continue work integrating state standards and assessment anchors into the UM Science Curriculum. Science Instructional Supervisor, Jennifer Straub, offered these two documents as proposals, subject to review and comment by the committee. Links to these documents appear below. As you review the documents, please keep in mind that by spiraling the K-8 curriculum, the attempt is to remove the redundancy (needless repitition). A true sprialed curriculum is repitition that becomes more sophisticated with each repitition.



[|Allegheny IU 3's Science Curriculum Framework]. This was used as one of the primary resources to write UM's Science Curriculum Recommendations. This on-line framework provides a standards based approach for science that focuses on essential questions and big ideas. Considerable time was taken to make the framework teachable and consistent with PA and national standards for science.

PDE has released a science glossary, which should serve as a common vocabulary for our science curriculum. Here is the file, courtesy of J. Straub!

Attached is the newly revised curriculum template. Please use this template when developing each of the units that make up our science curriculum: (Note: This is a revised file in spreadsheet format!--07/12/07)