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LESSONS

• 7 SAFETY IN THE LAB This page focuses on laboratory safety, by asking students to identify dangers and suggest ways of improving safety.

Sc 1: Scientific Enquiry

• 9 WRITE-UPS This page leads the students through the main processes, useful for gaining the optimum marks for investigation presentations.
• 11 EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN This page asks students to identify experimental variables, and how to control them in a common Chemistry practical.

Sc 2: Life Processes And Living Things

• 13 ALIVE OR NOT This page requires that students understand the applications of the characteristics of living things by focusing on a range of animal examples. (SC2; Level 3)
• 15 ORGAN SYSTEMS This page establishes the main plant and animal organ systems and their functions, through a research activity. (SC2; Level 4/5)
• 17 MUSCLES AND BONES This page looks at the main functions of the skeleton, focusing largely on movement and protection. (SC2; Level 4)
• 19 CELLS This page uses diagrams and labels to encourage students to reinforce their learning about cell parts and their functions. (SC2; Level 6)
• 21 ADAPTATIONS This page asks students to study a variety of animals in their habitats, and to identify the ways in which the animals are best suited to those environments. (SC2; Level 3)
• 23 FOOD CHAINS This page helps students to interpret food webs and pyramids AND WEBS of biomass and numbers, by asking students to display information in each form. (SC2; Level 4)
• 25 A BALANCED DIET This page explores the components necessary for a good diet and their particular uses in the body, through a matching and research exercise. (SC2; Level 3)
• 27 PREDATORS AND PREY This page encourages students to explore the relationships, in nature, between predator and prey, by using examples on the page. (SC2; Level 4/5)
• 29 DISEASE This page introduces students to ways of catching (and avoiding) diseases, through a matching and poster activity. (SC2; Level 5/6)

Sc 3: Materials and their Properties

• 31 STATES OF MATTER This page aims to help students understand the properties of solids, liquids and gases, by relating them to their uses. (SC3; Level 3)
• 33 MATERIALS This page asks students to recognise properties displayed on the page and relate them to a variety of uses. (SC3; Level 3/4)
• 35 SEPARATING MIXTURES This page uses separation techniques on the page to ask students to explore new applications of their knowledge. (SC3; Level 4/5)
• 37 CHEMICALS This page recaps knowledge about atomic structure, encouraging more able students to write simple word equations. (SC3; Level 4/5)
• 39 CHANGES OF STATE This page helps students to understand what happens to particles as they change between solids, liquids and gases. (SC3; Level 4/5)
• 41 ACIDS AND ALKALIS This page uses indicators and everyday applications to explain the pH scale and neutralisation. (SC3; Level 6)
• 43 REACTIVITY SERIES This page asks students to use a periodic table to familiarise themselves with the reactivity series of metals and displacement reactions. (SC3; Level 6)
• 45 OXIDATION REACTIONS This page uses the reactions of rusting and combustion, asking students to extend their understanding by planning an investigation. (SC3; Level 6)

Sc 4: Physical Processes

• 47 ENERGY This page uses diagrams to help students to recognise different types of energy and explore renewable and non-renewable energy sources. (SC4; Level 6)
• 49 ENERGY TRANSFERS This page encourages students to look at energy transfers, energy conservation and ways of saving energy. (SC4; Level 6)
• 51 SWITCHED ON This page covers basic electrical circuitry, by using a stepped approach to understanding the components and their configurations. (SC4; Level 3/4)
• 53 FORCES This page introduces types of forces and their applications, moving on to a consideration of the speed of an object and how this might be measured. (SC4; Level 3/4)
• 55 MAGNETS This page asks students to solve polarity problems, moving on to the exploration of electromagnetism and its applications. (SC4; Level 4)
• 57 LIGHT This page reminds students of the visible spectrum and extends into an investigation of how the angle of light affects the length of shadows. (SC4; Level 4)
• 59 SOUND This page asks students to explore the mechanism of hearing, through an examination of the characteristics of sound waves. (SC4; Level 3/4)
• 61 SOLAR SYSTEM This page helps students to remember the names and order of planets, extending into a consideration of what affects the orbit time of a planet. (SC4; Level 5)