GEMS and Standards
GEMS
units can play a powerful role
in supporting standards and benchmarks for educational excellence.
Below is a listing of correlations between various State and National
standards and GEMS Teacher's Guides. In a few cases we do not have an actual correlation but a suggested sequence of units that address a significant number of the grade level standards. At the bottom of this page
you will also find information about GEMS Handbooks relating to
standards.
National Standards
Science
Curriculum and National Standards: Find
out how GEMS and other LHS curriculum units align with and can
be used to support the main content categories of the National
Science Education Standards (NSES).
In addition, GEMS has made a number of
resources available for educators that relate to standards:
The Architecture of Reform:
GEMS and National Standards, in addition to a concise
history of how standards and benchmarks came to be, provides
many examples of how GEMS can be used in support of national
standards, a chart which summarizes where GEMS guides fit into
the content standards, and other information on GEMS curriculum
sequences.
The GEMS handbook for early-childhood
educators, Science and Math
Explorations for Young Children, contains descriptions
of age-appropriate National Science Education Standards and
the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Standards
along with all the GEMS and GEMS/PEACHES early-childhood guides
that align with those standards.
Another handbook, The Rainbow
of Mathematics, relates GEMS mathematics guides to the
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Standards.
If you and/or an institution or group you
work with have aligned the GEMS units and curriculum sequences
you use to state or other standards, we would very much like to
see what you have done in full and glorious detail. Having this
information will assist GEMS national workshop presenters and
GEMS Associates in many ways. We will gladly send you a GEMS guide
or handbook of your choice if you are kind enough to send your
work to:
GEMS Standards Aligment
C/O Florence Stone, GEMS Editor
University of California, Berkeley
Lawrence Hall of Science #5200
Berkeley, CA 94720-5200
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