The UK's bestselling Key Stage 3 science course, Activate, now has brand-new Intervention Workbooks to support students on their journey to GCSE success. Carefully designed Intervention tasks and a new Pinchpoint tool tackle key concepts and ideas through self-assessment to help students identify areas for improvement and extension. A large variety of practice questions, activities, and checklists provide plenty of opportunity to build skills and confidence throughout the course. Key features: The Intervention Workbooks are designed to tackle key concepts and ideas in KS3 science with intervention strategies designed by assessment expert Dr Andrew Chandler-Grevatt. They include: carefully designed 'Pinchpoint' diagnostic questions for self-assessment, which will help students identify areas for improvement tailored follow-up activities to help students address problem areas and make progress structured activities linked to the differentiated Developing, Secure, and Extending outcomes of the Activate course further revision questions linked to learning outcomes for further support. The activities and interventions in this Higher Workbook focus on extending students' knowledge and supporting them in developing higher-order skills.

 

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 128 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by Oxford University Press .

Jo Locke has 11 years experience teaching secondary science, working on KS3 through to A-level and with experience as a Head of Science. She is an experienced examiner, and has previously examined for International Baccalaureate and Edexcel A-levels. Jo is an author, and has written material for GCSE, BTEC, Entry Level Certificate and A-levels. Jo has an honours degree in Biology and a PGCE from the University of Bath. Dr Andrew Chandler-Grevatt has a PhD in school assessment, and a real passion forscience teaching and learning. Having worked as a science teacher for ten years, of which five were spent as an AST, Andy has a real understanding of the pressures and joys of teaching in the classroom. Alongside his national and international research in school assessment, Andy is a teaching fellow on the PGCE course at the University of Sussex, and is a successful published assessment author. Victoria Stutt has been teaching since 2004, working across key stages and with experience of coordinating KS3. She is an experienced GCSE and A-Level author, and has written successful assessment titles for KS3. Victoria has an honours degree in Chemistry and a PGCE from the University of Sussex. Dr Andrew Chandler-Grevatt has a PhD in school assessment, and a real passion forscience teaching and learning. Having worked as a science teacher for ten years, of which five were spent as an AST, Andy has a real understanding of the pressures and joys of teaching in the classroom. Alongside his national and international research in school assessment, Andy is a teaching fellow on the PGCE course at the University of Sussex, and is a successful published assessment author.