Science committee charge

You have been appointed as a member of a science curriculum committee. Your principal tells you that you were selected because of your passion for believing a hands on inquiry science program is in the best interest of the students and society as a whole. The principal has discussed with you the fact that some faculty believe reading and mathematics is more important than science. At teacher's meetings they have stated that it is more important for them to teach students to read in the early grades and teachers in middle school and high school can teach science to those that are interested. They also believe that those teachers are prepared to teach science and liked teaching it.

Others on the committee want to select a text because they don't want to do experiments. They believe that doing so causes classroom management problems and students can learn just as well by reading a text and being drilled over the vocabulary that makes science science.

Still others want a text selected because they see doing curriculum as copying objectives from a text, using the text as a sequence of activities, and using the tests that come with the book as assessment. They say that they will supplement it by doing experiments. However, they seldom find time to do so.

Write a plan of action on how you will deal with this situation.