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Science (age 9-11)

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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: Around the World on a plate

  • Do people eat the same food all over the world?
  • Where in the world, do these foods come from?
  • What different foods can you see in this painting?
  • How do taste and smell affect what we eat?
  • What happens to our food once it’s in our mouths?

Unit 2: Weird and Wonderful

  • How do some plants eat meat?
  • Why are some animals such strange colours?
  • What kind of sounds can a lyre bird make?
  • What hides at the bottom of a dark bat cave?
  • What is alive but is too small to see?

Unit 3: Survival

  • What do you need to survive in the Arctic?
  • How can you make dirty water safe to drink?
  • What is it like to sail around the world?
  • How can you use things around you to survive in the jungle?
  • What are conditions like in the desert?

Unit 4: Inventions

  • What is the story of cinemas?
  • What were the first trains like?
  • How can you make a rocket?
  • Famous Inventors
  • The Victorian Invention Quiz

Unit 5: Feel the beat

  • How can everyday objects be used to play music?
  • How can you make an instrument out of bits and pieces?
  • How can sounds be felt?
  • Do you recognise these sounds?
  • The Sound Effects Challenge

Unit 6: Fairgrounds

  • What were fairgrounds like in the past?
  • What science can you see in a Victorian Fairground?
  • How can you make a model fairground ride?
  • What happens when we slide down a helter skelter?
  • Is a fast ride frightening or exciting?

Unit 7: Reach for the Sky

  • How do you make a pressure pot rocket?
  • How do peregrines learn to fly?
  • Why do people build skyscrapers?
  • Which is the highest mountain in the world?
  • How does a hot air balloon fly?

Unit 8: Push to the Limits

  • How long can humans hold their breath for?
  • What makes our heart rate increase?
  • How do we feel when we ride a roller coaster?
  • How did the Native American Indians prepare for battle?
  • What happens when you exercise?

Unit 9: Saving the Earth

  • How can we use less electricity?
  • What does renewable energy mean?
  • What are the effects of global warming?
  • Why are these species endangered?
  • What do you throw away?

Unit 10: Step into the Future

  • What did people in the past think would happen in the future?
  • How will the way we make our food have to change in the future?
  • What does the discovery of water on the Moon mean for the future?
  • What amazing living things might be living in outer space?
  • How is the growing human population affecting our world?

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April 2010
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