Curriculum Bank is a practical activity-based series which can be used as a planning tool to help devise a comprehensive scheme of work, and as an easily accessible bank of ideas. The lesson plans target specific learning objectives and collectively provide a progressive coverage of the programmes of study. Lively photocopiable worksheets support many of the activities and save valuable teacher time. Guidance for differentiation and formative assessment is incorporated throughout, with specific assessment lessons for summative purposes also included. IT applications and other cross-curricular links are highlighted, as are ideas for display. The practical activities in this book break down the materials section of the Science Programme of Study for Key Stage 2 and Scottish levels C-E into progressive "learning chunks". Through the activities children are given opportunities to use all aspects of scientific enquiry to explore and investigate various materials. There are also summative assessment activities and specific open-ended investigative activities.

 

This book is part of a book series called Curriculum Bank .

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.

There are 160 pages in this book. This book was published 1996 by Scholastic .

Suzanne Kirk is a freelance writer and primary school teacher in Nottinghamshire.

This book has the following chapters: Sorting, grouping and classifying materials according to their properties; investigating changes in materials; investigating solutions and separating mixtures.