• The carefully controlled language level makes the pages more accessible for lower achievers.
• Carefully-structured questions throughout the text help pupils to consolidate their knowledge and understanding as they go along.
• Summary boxes appear on every double-page spread, reinforcing learning from the main text.
• Core and Foundation Editions have identical pagination, so you can use them side by side in a mixed-ability class.

This is book 2 in Heinemann Science Scheme .

There are 160 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Pearson Education Limited .

Byron Dawson is a form Assistant Head Teacher and has written over 20 science textbooks.

This book has the following chapters: * Food and Digestion * Respiration * Microbes and disease * Ecological relationships * Atoms and elements * Compounds and mixtures * Rocks and weathering * The rock cycle * Heating and cooling * Magnets and electromagnets * Light * Sound and hearing * Glossary * Index