Standard 3: Climate for Cultural Diversity

Title Science
ISBN 0-15-322922-5
Publisher Harcourt
Date of Publication 2002

Picture/Graphic Total Number of Pictures/Graphics Percentage of Pictures/Graphics

Representations Represented Represented
Male 37/80 46%

Female 43/80 54%

White 53/80 66%

African American 13/80 16%

Asian 6/80 8%

Native American 5/80 6%

Hispanic 3/80 4%

Content Total Number of Content Pieces Percentage of Content Pieces

Representations Represented Represented
Male 9/17 53%

Female 8/17 47%

White 7/17 41%

African American 5/17 29%

Asian 3/17 18%

Native American 0/17 0%

Hispanic 2/17 12%

 Content Topics Total Number of Pages on Topic Percentage of Pages on Topic

Living Systems 120/610 20%

Life Science
Interactions with 120/610 20%
Nature
Earth Science 128/610 21%
Space and Solar
64/610 10%
System
Matter 56/610 9%
Energy and
120/610 20%
Motion

These numbers show that even in a science text in which the overall representation of people is

not very common, there is still a high percentage of white representation over any other

ethnicity. The text only focuses on specific individuals in certain sections where they discuss a

person in science. Again, for this content there was still a higher percentage of white individuals.

Although those did not have as large of a percentage gap as the general representation there were

fewer overall numbers of these representations. This shows that more supplemental materials

need to be included to ensure that cultural diversity is reflected within the curriculum.