Teacher's Guide to the Series

Science in a Topic Teacher’s Guide to the Series provides notes on each of the sections in the students’ topic books, including equipment and materials needed, and general guidance about the importance of science and the nature of science activity. There is an extended list of advantages and disadvantages of a topic approach. There is discussion and illustration of the skills of science, taken to be observation, comparing and classifying predicting, testing and experimenting, measuring and conclusions. The guide provides a list of the concepts covered within the series and a chart of where these appear in the books. These is also a list showing how the activities in the books can be rearranged under other topic headings, such as air, electricity and animals. It concludes with a detailed index to the topic books. [b]Contents[/b] Introduction: about the series Specific notes on each book, including equipment and materials required Clothes and costume Communication Food Houses and Homes In the air Moving on Land Roads, Bridges and Tunnels Ships Sports and Games Skills, methods and processes of science The content: concepts covered Other routes through The role of the science Areas of experience Recording and communication Integration The topic approach Index to the series [b]Charts[/b] The skills of Science The methods of science The fundamental ideas