Cambridge Lower Secondary Science 2nd Edition

Whether they are making circuits, discovering how plants grow or learning how gravity works, these new lower secondary resources help your learners develop critical thinking, communication and collaboration skills. With active learning at its heart, differentiation and assessment for learning opportunities, the series helps your students achieve their potential. You’ll find support for subject-specific vocabulary development and plenty of opportunities to develop scientific enquiry skills. The accompanying Digital Classroom resource includes video, audio and interactive activities to bring your lessons to life. Our accessible teachers’ resources provide everything you need for the course including support and guidance to plan and deliver your lessons with confidence.

With everything you need to plan and run your lessons, this teacher’s resource helps you get the most out of the series. You’ll find starter activities and additional lesson ideas not included in the students’ books, as well as answers to all the questions and exercises. There are language support suggestions, along with clearly identified assessment and differentiation ideas to help you meet all your learners’ needs. Includes access to worksheets with additional differentiation activities and further language development exercises in the accompanying digital resource

Features

• Guidance on key teaching approaches and how to use them in your classroom
• The ‘Background knowledge’ section gives you key information on each unit so you have the detail you need to teach confidently
• The ‘Teaching skills focus’ helps you develop your own teaching style and bring active learning, assessment for learning and differentiation into your classroom with confidence
• ‘Common misconceptions’ highlight areas learners frequently find challenging and show you how to overcome them
• The lesson plan for each topic shows you how your lessons link to the Cambridge Lower Secondary Science curriculum framework
• Downloadable tests, with answers, provide ready-made assessment opportunities

CONTENTS

1. Photosynthesis and the carbon cycle
2. Properties of materials
3. Forces and energy
4. Maintaining life
5. Reactivity
6. Sound and space
7. Genes and inheritance
8. Rates of reaction
9. Electricity