Science resources to support the pre-2008 Key Stage 3 QCA Scheme of Work. Year 8 is an engaging Class Book that meet the needs of both teachers and pupils for the pre-2008 Science Strategy and Framework for Key Stage 3. The differentiated questions build thinking skills and Scientific Enquiry is intergrated throughout.

 

This book is part of a book series called Spectrum Key Stage 3 Science .

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 168 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Cambridge University Press .

Dr Derek McMonagle is a highly experienced international educational science writer. Marlene Grey-Tomlinson is a Senior Teacher at Excelsior High School in Kingston where she has taught Integrated Science for over 25 years.

This book has the following chapters: Acknowledgements; Introduction; Contents; Unit 8A Food and digestion; Unit 8B Respiration; Unit 8C Microbes and disease; Unit 8D Ecological relationships; Unit 8E Atoms and elements; Unit 8F Compounds and mixtures; Unit 8G Rocks and weathering; Unit 8H The rock cycle; Unit 8I Heating and cooling; Unit 8J Magnets and electromagnets; Unit 8K Light; Unit 8L Sound and hearing; Scientific Investigations; Glossary/index.