Description
- The series aims to foster scientific thinking by engaging learners in activities involving experiment planning, prediction-making, and result-gathering.
- Each unit concludes with a project, such as using sand to investigate impact craters, to synthesize learning and demonstrate real-world applications.
- Designed for learners with English as a second language, the course features vocabulary boxes, clear diagrams, and supporting illustrations.
- Key features include “Getting Started” boxes at the beginning of each topic to activate prior knowledge and “Think like a scientist” tasks for hands-on scientific inquiry.
- The topics covered in the series align with the earth and space strand of the curriculum framework.
- Summary sections at the end of each topic allow learners to reflect on their learning.
- Answers to all questions are available in the accompanying teacher’s resource.
- Downloadable tests with answers offer assessment opportunities.
- The table of contents outlines the topics covered in each unit, including photosynthesis and the carbon cycle, properties of materials, forces and energy, maintaining life, reactivity, sound and space, genes and inheritance, rates of reaction, and electricity.
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