Primary science : knowledge and understanding

✍ Scribed by Kennedy, Jenny

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Leaves: 228
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Many primary school teachers feel that they do not have sufficient knowledge or understanding of scientific subjects, simply because they are not science specialists. Written in clear jargon free style, this book takes a step-by-step approach to all the topics of the National Curriculum for science at Key Stages 1 and 2. Throughout, it gives useful illustrations and real life examples to demonstrate the ideas being raised. Read more...

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This jargon free book is a written for all those primary school teachers who feel that they do not have sufficient knowledge or understanding of scientific subjects, simply because they are not Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: 1. Life Processes / Nigel Skinner --
2. Humans as Organisms / Nigel Skinner --
3. Green Plants as Organisms / Nigel Skinner and Ann Graham --
4. Variation and Classification / Ann Graham and Nigel Skinner --
5. Living Things in Their Environment / Ann Graham and Nigel Skinner --
6. Materials and Their Properties / Geoffrey Wickham --
7. Natural Materials: the Story of Rock / Carrie Branigan --
8. Electricity / Linda Webb --
9. Forces and Motion / Jim Jardine and Jenny Kennedy --
10. Light / Jenny Kennedy --
11. Sound / Geoffrey Wickham --
12. The Earth and Beyond / Jim Jardine and Jenny Kennedy.

✦ Subjects

Science -- Study and teaching (Elementary);Sciences -- Étude et enseignement (Primaire);EDUCATION -- Elementary.

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