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Primary Science: Knowledge and Understanding 8th Revised edition [Paperback / softback]

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  • Format: Paperback / softback, 288 pages, height x width: 246x171 mm, weight: 510 g
  • Series: Achieving QTS Series
  • Pub. Date: 06-Jul-2017
  • Publisher: Learning Matters Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1526410923
  • ISBN-13: 9781526410924
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  • Format: Paperback / softback, 288 pages, height x width: 246x171 mm, weight: 510 g
  • Series: Achieving QTS Series
  • Pub. Date: 06-Jul-2017
  • Publisher: Learning Matters Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1526410923
  • ISBN-13: 9781526410924
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Now with online resources to support subject knowledge!

Secure subject knowledge and understanding is the foundation of confident, creative, and effective teaching. To help your students master this, the Eighth Edition of this established text now comes with a range of online resources available on the new companion website including:
  • A comprehensive science subject knowledge audit
  • Reflective self-assessment questions per chapter
  • A science subject knowledge checklist
  • Useful web links for primary science teaching
You can use the science subject knowledge audit to assess your trainees’ progress and ensure they better understand their level of knowledge. Grading students' overall performance, highlighting areas for improvement linked to relevant chapter reading, and the ability to share results with their lecturer makes this the ideal science subject assessment tool.

This Eighth Edition, covering the whole curriculum for primary science, has also been updated to include more on why science matters in primary schools and new content on "States of matter," "Rocks and soils," and the "Theory of Evolution." New interactive activities are included to engage students in their learning and enable discussion. Using this book in conjunction with the free online resources really makes this the complete package for developing science subject knowledge. 

Develops secure subject knowledge for primary science with the ability to test understanding through the new online resources.
Foreword -- Dear teacher of science ... ix
About the authors xi
Companion website xiii
Overview: where to find curriculum content in the book xv
1 Introduction
1(6)
About this book
1(1)
Science subject knowledge really does matter!
2(1)
The Teachers' Standards for primary science
3(1)
Curriculum context
3(2)
Outcomes
5(2)
2 Working scientifically
7(12)
Practical activity
9(1)
Skill or process?
10(1)
Scientific attitudes
10(1)
Scientific processes
11(4)
Progression in procedural understanding
15(4)
3 Functioning of organisms: green plants
19(18)
Green plants and the plant kingdom
20(2)
Life processes
22(4)
Cells, tissues and organs: levels of organisation
26(1)
The structure of flowering plants
27(3)
Photosynthesis
30(1)
Transport systems in flowering plants
31(1)
Sexual reproduction in flowering plants
31(3)
Plant health
34(3)
4 Functioning of organisms: animals including humans
37(28)
Humans and the animal kingdom
38(1)
Life processes
39(3)
Cells, tissues and organs: levels of organisation
42(1)
Major systems within the human body
43(12)
Health
55(3)
Other animals
58(7)
5 Evolution and inheritance
65(15)
Species
66(2)
DNA
68(1)
Genes
69(1)
Chromosomes
69(1)
The process of DNA replication
70(1)
Inheritance
71(2)
Evolution
73(1)
Evidence for evolution
74(1)
The evolution of humans
75(5)
6 Living things and their habitats
80(13)
Food chains
81(4)
Food webs
85(2)
Food pyramids
87(1)
Habitats and ecosystems
88(2)
Environmental issues
90(3)
7 Materials
93(19)
What are materials made of?
94(11)
What are solids, liquids and gases?
105(2)
How do solids, liquids and gases expand?
107(5)
8 Changes of materials
112(16)
Dissolving: what does it mean?
113(1)
Changes of state
114(4)
Separating mixtures
118(1)
How do we explain that mass is conserved in physical and chemical changes?
118(10)
9 Rocks, soils and fossils
128(8)
Rocks
129(2)
Fossils
131(2)
Soils
133(3)
10 Electricity
136(14)
Electrons carry electrical charge
137(1)
Good and bad conductors
138(1)
Electrical resistance
139(3)
Electrical current
142(1)
Series and parallel circuits
143(2)
Voltage
145(1)
Cells and batteries
146(1)
Power
146(1)
Work
147(1)
Electrical energy changes
147(1)
Components and circuit symbols
148(2)
11 Energy
150(18)
Energy
152(1)
Force
152(1)
Work
153(1)
Forms of energy
154(2)
Energy and fuel
156(1)
Fuels for generating electricity
157(2)
Chemical changes produce electricity
159(1)
Energy transfers in biological processes
160(1)
Converting energy in our bodies
161(2)
Heat energy
163(1)
Energy changes
164(1)
Efficiency of energy transfers
165(3)
12 Forces and magnets
168(19)
The difference between force and movement
171(2)
The relationship between force and movement
173(10)
Magnetism
183(1)
Electromagnetism
184(3)
13 Light
187(15)
Light comes from a source
189(1)
How does light travel?
190(6)
More about reflected light
196(6)
14 Sound
202(13)
What is sound?
203(6)
The properties of sounds
209(3)
The oscilloscope
212(3)
15 Earth and space
215(17)
The Universe, galaxies and stars
217(3)
The Solar System
220(5)
The Earth--Sun--Moon System
225(7)
Self-assessment questions 232(8)
Answers to self-assessment questions 240(11)
Glossary 251(12)
Index 263
Graham Peacock is Principal Lecturer in Education at Sheffield Hallam University. He has taught children across the primary and secondary age ranges. John Sharp is Professor of Higher Education and Head of the Lincoln Higher Education Research Institute (LHERI) at the University of Lincoln. Rob Johnsey, formerly a primary school teacher, lectured in primary science in the Institute of Education at the University of Warwick for several years. Debbie Wright is the BEd (Primary) Programme Director at Rolle School of Education, University of Plymouth. She has extensive experience of primary teaching, and of lecturing in primary science education. Keira Sewell is an independent educational consultant at Visionary Education (www.visionary-education.co.uk). She has over 25 years experience of supporting the professional development of both trainee and experienced teachers and specialises in science education.