Resource Bank is a series of English, Maths and Science books that reflect current trends in teaching. The series provides teachers with a variety of materials - posters, photocopiables and activity ideas - that focus on particular skills and/or knowledge appropriate to curriculum content. They are structured to reflect the current approach of whole-class teaching followed by small group/individual and class review. Forces will contain *an A1 poster of a full-colour picture of a child on a mountain bicycle, plus three black and white 'mini-posters' providing further resources, such as a scale for a classroom-made forcemeter *lesson plans for the activities focusing on and developing from poster content, divided up according to the KS2 Science PoS, but taking the NI and Scottish Guidelines into account: Opposing forces, Measuring forces, Friction, Gravity, Magnetism, Forces and energy. *supporting photocopiable sheets.

 

This book is part of a book series called Resource Bank Science .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 2. KS2 covers school years 4, 5 and 6, and ages 8-11 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. This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2000 by Scholastic .

Clifford Hibbard is Head of Physics at St Thomas More RC School, Nuneaton, Warwickshire. He is responsible for his school's 'Building Bridges' project in science looking at pupil transfer from KS2 to KS3. He was co-author of '100 Science Lessons: Yr 6'. Karen Mallinson-Yates is Head of Science and a Chemistry specialist at St Thomas More RC School in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. She was co-author of '100 Science Lessons: Year 6'. Ian Mitchell manages the 'Green Egg Company', an initiative that supports and provides educational resources to develop sustainable environmental living. He was author of units 2 and 3 of '100 Science Lessons: Year 5'. Tom Rugg teaches biology at St Thomas More RC School in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. He was co-author of '100 Science Lessons: Year 6'.