A hands-on whole-school primary science programme designed to inspire and engage children.
Put working scientifically at the heart of your curriculum with Switched on Science Second Edition. This fully updated edition covers the English national curriculum from EYFS to Year 6 with six exciting units in each year group.
The practical Teacher's Guides provide step-by-step instructions for teaching the unit with emphasis on helping develop children's investigative and working scientifically skills. Assessment activities and guidance are provided to help teachers identify children working at, above and towards the expected standard. Less experienced teacher's and non-science specialists will find embedded CPD to build their confidence in teaching primary science.
Accompanying digital resources are available online at My Rising Stars www.risingstars-uk.com/myrisingstars. Front of class Powerpoints and downloadable worksheets give teachers easy access to the resources they will need to deliver the programme, saving them hours of preparation. Digital interactive activities, bright modern videos and truly fun practical activities will help inspire inquisitive minds in science. For teacher's apprehensive about running practical science activities, step-by-step CPD will provide helpful support.
'Switched on Science provides lots of fantastic lesson ideas, full of practical activities, that can easily be adapted (if needed) to meet the needs of each class. It is easy to use, even for the non-specialist, and simply makes the planning and teaching of science a breeze. Children look forward to their science lessons and can't wait to find out what they will be exploring next.'
Tim Handley, Year 5 Teacher at Woodlands Primary School
Year 3 topics
1. Earth rocks! - Rocks
2. Food and our bodies - Animals, including humans
3. Mirror, mirror - Light
4. How does your garden grow? - Plants
5. Opposites attract - Forces and magnets
SCIENCE IN ACTION TOPIC 6: Investigate! Nappies - Working Scientifically Skills project.
- ISBN10 151043609X
- ISBN13 9781510436091
- Publish Date 27 July 2018
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 March 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Rising Stars UK Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 122
- Language English