Activate is a new Key Stage 3 Science course for the 2014 curriculum, designed to support every student on their journey through Key Stage 3 to Key Stage 4 success. This Teacher Handbook provides full lesson suggestions that build maths, literacy and working scientifically skills vital for success in the new GCSEs, as well as full assessment guidance for the new curriculum, with assessment for learning checkpoints. This Teacher Handbook accompanies the Activate 1 Student Book, with a spread-by-spread match to the content. Every lesson has a working scientifically objective, so you can be sure you're covering this new area of the curriculum. Use Activate 1 and 2 to cover the Programme of Study in two years. Add Activate 3 for a contextual consolidation and extension of content.

 

This book is at the following key stages: Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4 . 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. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. KS4 covers school years 10 and 11, and ages 15-16 years.

There are 176 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Oxford University Press .

By Aleks Jedrosz, Nicky Thomas and Emma Poole, Edited by Edmund Walsh Simon Broadley has been teaching secondary science for 18 years, specialising in biology and applied science, and with responsibility for leading Biology and BTEC courses. Simon has a PhD and BSc in microbiology. Simon has been an OUP author for seven years, writing student and teacher resources for KS3 and GCSE. Mark Matthews has been teaching secondary science for over 20 years, specialising in Biology and AppliedScience, and with responsibility for leading biology and BTEC courses. Mark has a PhD in Developmental Biology and a BSc in Zoology. An experienced author, Mark has been writing for OUP for seven years, with published student and teacher materials for KS3 and GCSE. 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 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.