Covering the new Australian Curriculum with fresh, local content, a wide range of activities and innovative digital resources to meet the needs of all Queensland science students.
- New curriculum content is clearly addressed with fresh local content and Queensland species or environments are used to demonstrate concepts wherever appropriate, helping students make connections in their science learning.
- Each dedicated skills chapter now includes evaluating and communicating skills to guide students to evaluate and analyse evidence, sources and data.
- The needs of a wide range of students are addressed with an appealing visual design and diverse activities to engage, support and extend students, including new extension content and activities covering mathematical processes, new Making Thinking Visible activities and over 50 hands-on activities per year level.
- Tools for students to keep track of their progress and learn independently include Learning Intentions, Success Criteria checklists, videos, auto-marked questions and interactive widgets.
- The use of cognitive verbs and Marzano’s taxonomy utilised by QCAA, Investigations, and data questions in every chapter help improve student thinking and prepare them for QCE studies.
- Intercultural inquiry skills and First Nations peoples perspectives are appropriately covered as an additional method or practice within the content, and supported with teaching notes in the Online Teaching Suite.
- New diagnostic tools for each content chapter. Set ready-made pre- and post-tests for your students and use the intuitive reporting to identify and target gaps in knowledge.
- Valuable time-saving support for planning, teaching, task managing, assessing, and reporting on student progress is provided through a powerful Learning Management System.
Contents:
1. Science Skills
2. Classification
3. Interactions in ecosystems
4. Planet Earth
5. Forces
6. Simple machines
7. States of matter
8. Mixtures