| Fun and practical science lessons that encourage active participation!
The Discovering Science series is designed to introduce students to a broad range of science concepts. The activities are grouped into topics which encourage students to predict, observe, record and explore. The Teaching Tips pages provide the essential background science knowledge for the activities to assist with planning the lesson. The preparation required for each activity is minimal.
Each topic and activity has:
- comprehensive teacher support notes
- detailed equipment lists
- clear, step-by-step instructions
- safety advice.
Book 4:
- How birds adapt to their environments
- Bird feathers and skeletons
- Observing birds in the local area
- Designing and conducting investigations
- Characteristics of mealworms
- Life cycle of a mealworm
- Testing using variables
- Consumer awareness
- Analysing advertisements
- Characteristics of water
- Evaporation and condensation
- How materials are recycled
- Collecting data about waste and recycling
- Properties of sound
- How sound is conducted
- Investigating pitch and how to change pitch
- Earth's rotation and its effect on day and night
- Effect of the sun on plant growth.
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