Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Criteria
Score
Influence on
-Curiosity
-Initiative
-Desire
Resource has no
beneficial
influence on any
of the three
measures of
experience
Resource has
beneficial
influence on at
least one of the
measures of
experience
Resource has a
beneficial influence on
all three of the
measures of
experience
Cognitive
Development
-Cognition
-New
Knowledge
Resource weakly
improves cognition
and/or introduces
no new knowledge
Resource
improves learner
cognition on
subject without
introducing new
knowledge
Resource improves
learner cognition on
the subject and
introduces new
knowledge
Level of
Material
-Grade
Appropriate for
Target
Resource is not
grade appropriate
for the target
audience, and
could not be used
for IEFA lesson
using standards
for the grade level
Resource has no
specific indicators
of a target
audience, and
could work for a
general audience
given the right
circumstances
Resource is well
suited for its target
audience and their
level of experience
and could easily be
incorporated for an
IEFA lesson for the
standards given the
target audience
Progressive
Education Tool
-Student
Freedom
-Tailored to
Individual
-Variety of
Teaching
Methods
Resource offers
limited student
freedom to
explore, the
material is nonadaptive to
student needs and
input, and uses
only one teaching
technique
Students have
freedom to
explore content at
their own pace;
however, the
content is nonadaptive and uses
only one teaching
technique
Students have
freedom to explore at
their own pace, using
technology that
adapts to their needs
and input, and the
technology may utilize
multiple teaching
techniques
Multicultural:
Realistic
Representation
Resource fails to
provide any
realistic or non-
Resource
attempts to
present a genuine
Resource covers a
realistic
representation of an
stereotypical
representation of
American Indian
topics
representation of
an American
Indian topic;
however the
depiction is
incomplete or
oversimplified
Multicultural:
Relevance
Resource fails to
provide any
relevant examples
to a culture or the
subject area
Resource
provides relevant
examples for
either the culture
or the subject
area, but not both
Resource provides
relevant examples for
both the culture and
the subject area
Resource
Viability
Resource cannot
support a
complete lesson
plan on its own,
and would require
additional
objectives and
activities
Resource can
support an entire
lesson plan by
itself without any
additional
activities
Resource could
support multiple
lesson plans or a unit
plan
Technology
Resource is one
page of written
words with no
interaction
Resource has
links that take the
user to additional
passive reading
pages
Resource provides
interactive technology,
allowing for active
student participation
Additional Comments: This resource first teaches users about Pueblo Indians, including tools,
food and geography. Users then learn more specific details about day to day life and get a
closer look at the environment. Finally, users test their knowledge while looking for many of the
items the Pueblos used. When the user clicks on each item that they find, an informative
paragraph pops up and informs the user about how the Pueblos used certain items, what they
ate, or why certain resources were important.