Comparison of Curriculum Development Practices by, Kelting-Gibson, Lynn M. Source: Educational Research Quarterly, 2005, 29, 1, 26-36.

Uses Wiggins and McTighe's Understanding by Design (backwards design model) and Danielson's Framework for Professional Practice (knowledge of content & pedagogy, knowledge of students, selection of instructional goals, knowledge of resources, design of coherent instruction, and assessment of student learning in unit and lesson plans).

What tools exist for the new roles of teachers, students and parents (nurollz?).

1. WIDS?
2. WebQuest?
3. Moodle / BlackWeb
4. IDMS

GoKnow - PDA site including PAAM software. (Soloway group)

HP Grants

1. Grade Programs
2. Reporting tools (e.g., IDMS)

- Blue Web'n

• Extensive collection of resources. Rated.
• Still must drill down to find useful, objective/unit appropriate tools.
• Wolfram Science site - highly rated, very well designed, but ultimately a rather shallow science dictionary. Wikipedia gave much more in-depth descriptions. Carbon dating from Wolfram vs. Wikipedia.
• Proctor & Gamble site - found some more interactive activities - interesting environmental simulation. The Formulator
• How Everyday Things Are Made came up on the Technology list

Making changes

• Circles (Japanese)

1. Clarity Innovations - Numerous useful tools including the Coast-to-Coast Podcast and an edtech news filter.
2. Weinberger Keynote recommended by Strudler. Synopsis
3. Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia) Interview on CSPAN's Q&A. Synopsis
   1. Gollum - Wikipedia Interface
4. Jean-Cluade Bradley of Drexel Presentation - Bradley's BlogSpot
   1. Screencasting
   2. Podcasting
   3. Has an iTunes course
   4. Boiler Cast
   5. Used advanced yahoo search to restrict to creative commons license.
5. United Streaming - Videos - subscription required.
6. Business is good for publishers. How much do we spend on 'publications'? Try $873,000,000 . . . in July, 2005. That's just K12. Higher ed kicked in another $883,000,000. From the math I picked up at Wikiversity (jab, jab), that makes for a 1,756,000,000 July. Hmmm, combine that with the $100 laptop and you have 17,560,000 laptops (+ Wikipedia). Source
7. What does that work out to for the year you ask? “El-Hi (elementary/high school) sales were up 0.1 percent ($4.30 billion), while higher education sales rose 1.8 percent, with sales of $3.45 billion. Standardized test sales grew by 12.4 percent ($923.9 million).” Source. $8,670,000,000. hmmm, now we have 86,700,000 laptops. Yeah!
8. According to NCES, in the latest year for which data is available, we had 55 million k-12 students and 16 million enrolled in degree granting institutions. The solution is pretty obvious to me.

• Nevada
  1. Physical Science
  2. Physical Science, Concept A, Matter, Gr3-5 “Students know matter exists in different states (i.e., solid, liquid, gas) which have distinct physical properties.”
  3. Physical Science, Concept B, Forces & Motion, Gr 3-5 “Students know Earth's gravity pulls any object toward it without touching it.”
  4. Life Science, Unifying Concept A: Heredity Gr 3-5 “Students know reproduction is an essential characteristic for the continuation of every species.”

• California
  1. K-8 by Grade, 9-12 by subj - Overview
  2. Grade 3, Physical Science, 1e “Students know matter has three forms: solid, liquid, and gas.”
  3. Grade 2, Physical Science, “Students know objects fall to the ground unless something holds them up.”
  4. Grade 2: Life sciences “2.a Students know that organisms reproduce offspring of their own kind and that the offspring resemble their parents and one another.”

• Nebraska
  1. Physical Science - Source,
  2. Grades K-1, 1.3.1 “Observe and classify materials as a solid, liquid, or gas.”
  3. Grade 8, “Investigate and describe the influence of gravity on objects in the solar system.”
  4. Grade 4, Life sciences “4.1.1 Describe the various structures of plants and animals necessary for survival and reproduction.”

• Texas
  1. Essential Skills. Science 7B 3rd Grade “identify matter as liquids, solids, and gases.”
  2. Grade 3, “Students investigate magnetism and gravity.”
  3. Grade 4, “§112.6. “Identify characteristics that allow members within a species to survive and reproduce;”

Rob - can you add two more standards to this? Science, early grade, content area. Kendall I added a couple more items. There is definitely some correspondence but I guess my general impression was that there are a lot of difference.

1. See science interactions book
   • Concept descriptions
     • Text
     • Visual
     • Auditory (can't be done w/ the text)
   • Activities
   • Review questions
   • New stuff