Flexibility to personalise

• with a wide range of starters, activities, plenaries and homeworks per topic, so you can custom-fit the learning experience to each class

• activities designed to cater for a wide range of abilities and learning styles, each with a National Curriculum level assigned

• all elements of the new Programme of Study are fully integrated and clearly marked, including Personal Learning and Thinking Skills

• also available on a CD-ROM version of the Guide that can also be accessed from your ActiveTeach giving you access to the entire course at the touch of a button

plus support for the non-specialist

• with Exemplar Topic Plans for each ability level and the two-year Key Stage 3 let us save you time with our suggested teaching sequence

• with background information for each unit that provides an explanation of the science involved: perfect for NQTs or non-specialists

• with resource lists and topic notes for the technician

This book is part of a book series called Exploring Science 2 .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks.

There are 396 pages in this book. This book was published 2008 by Pearson Education Limited .

Penny Johnson has been an engineer, a science teacher, and a full-time publisher of school textbooks. She is now a full-time freelance writer, consultant, and editor, who has co-written a number of science courses for use at home and in school. She lives in England. Carmela LaVigna Coyle is the author of the bestselling Princesses series as well as three other books. She lives in Denver, Colorado. Steve Gray is an award winning children's picture book illustrator. He has illustrated a number of children's books including Farmer McPeepers and his Missing Milk Cows by Katy Duffield, which was chosen two years in a row by the California Teachers Association to promote Read Across America and was an Arkansas Diamond Honor book winner.