Overview
This teacher’s guide accompanies Science Works 1, the first of two books aimed at years 7 and 8 and written specifically for the 2007 New Zealand curriculum.
Whether you as teacher have a science background or not, you will find this guide indispensable.
This Teacher’s Guide has 16 chapters corresponding to the 16 in Book 1 for students. Each chapter has the following eight components:
• Central concepts
• Outline
• Answers to end-of-chapter questions
• Websites
• Glossary
• Hands-on-activities
• Further questions
• Summative assessment
Flexible: definitely not a tightly-integrated ‘package’ that needs to be presented in a particular way or in a particular sequence
Highly visual
Accessible writing style
In this chapter we will learn briefly tells students what they will cover
Hands-on activities range from simple observations to proper science experiments that can easily completed in the classroom, without extensive preparation, and without access to specialised science equipment
Questions and Extension activities
Teacher’s books provide support for teachers who do not have a strong science background and contain answers to the end of chapter questions, additional hands-on activities and extra formative questions as well as summative assessment