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Science (age 7-9)

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Everything you need to teach Primary Science and deliver APP

Inspire pupils with these new interactive resources for Age 7–9 and Age 9–11 Science for whole class teaching. They combine the best of BBC television, with fun activities, images and audio, to ensure you have everything you need for imaginative, creative science lessons.

  • No more boring QCA Schemes of Work! Fresh, new units to help you evolve your curriculum and make science meaningful and exciting for children
  • Plan with confidence using the teacher’s support materials on screen and in the teacher’s book.
  • Fully integrated links for cross-curricular teaching, from problem solving with the Victorians to predicting the future of our planet.
  • An assessment Book to make the implementation of APP straight-forward and easy, with skills-focused activities covering all assessment foci.
  • Interactive content which can be personalised for your class, with tools to edit, annotate, mark, print and save.

Contents:

Unit 1: In the Kitchen

  • How did the Victorians make ice-cream?
  • Can you spot the foods?
  • What did the Tudors have for dinner?
  • How is bread made?
  • How many different ways can you cook food?

Unit 2: Grow to Eat

  • Sowing Time on the Victorian Farm
  • How are crisps made from potatoes?
  • What parts of a plant did Victorian farmers use to feed their animals?
  • How did the Aztecs grow vegetables?
  • How do bananas grow?

Unit 3: What could we do with it?

  • How is a hot air balloon made?
  • What is it made from?
  • How did the Incas make a bridge out of grass?
  • How can you test the strength of a grass rope?
  • How do TV Studios produce gunge?

Unit 4: Animal helpers

  • How can animals help us?
  • How can dogs help us to fight crime?
  • How do these animals help us?
  • How do camels help us?
  • What famous paintings feature animal helpers?

Unit 5: Carnival

  • How do you design a carnival costume?
  • How do you make a carnival costume?
  • What happens on Carnival day?
  • What is a carnival float?
  • How does a steel band make music?

Unit 6: Made to amuse

  • How did the Victorians amuse themselves?
  • How does air help a mini-hovercraft move?
  • Do we always see things as they really are?
  • How can you...?
  • What fun can you have with magnets and springs?

Unit 7: A World of weather

  • Where is the coldest place on earth?
  • How strong is the wind?
  • How can music describe the weather?
  • How do we make a weather map?
  • How do we tell people about the weather?

Unit 8: The Time Traveller

  • What was life on Earth like millions of years ago?
  • What can cave paintings tell us about life 15,000 years ago?
  • What did the Ancient Mayans do with rubber?
  • Who was Charles Darwin and why do we remember him?
  • How have the materials we use to make our clothes, changed over time?

Unit 9: Bright Ideas

  • What is the strongest bridge you can build?
  • How do inventors develop ideas?
  • What did the Victorians invent to cook meat evenly?
  • How can we get power from water?
  • Can you identify these bright ideas?

Unit 10: Science Detectives

  • How do fingerprints make us unique?
  • What pieces of the past lie buried in the ground?
  • What can a painting tell us about the history of science?
  • What clues are left behind at a crimescene?
  • Where is all the energy going?

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