Power Station Project
The Power Station Project is a simulated case study from the Science in Society series dealing with the various decisions that have to be made when a new power station is being planned. It was designed as an integral part of the Energy section of the Science in Society course. It is assumed that an Electricity Generating Board is…
Inventions
The activities in this resource aim to encourage students to create and invent, and develop aspects of applied science. Students make observations about inventions they may not have heard of and make inferences about how they might be used and why they were invented. The Warwick Process Science was compiled by an experienced team…
Body Maintenance
Ginn Science level three students’ book Body Maintenance was written for students aged seven to eight years and published in 1989. It contains 24 pages and related to the content strand ‘Ourselves and healthy living’. Using full-colour illustrations, it begins with the importance of teeth for human and other animals,…
Time
Ginn Science level three students’ book Time was written for students aged seven to eight years and published in 1989. It contains 24 pages and related to the content strand ‘Earth and space’. Using full-colour illustrations, it draws attention to the importance of time in our daily lives and how animals and plants…
Weather
Ginn Science level three students’ book Weather was written for students aged seven to eight years and published in 1989. It contains 24 pages and related to the content strand ‘Earth and space’. Using full-colour illustrations, it begins by discussing different kinds of weather and distinguishes weather from climate.…
Structures
Ginn Science level three students’ book Structures was written for students aged seven to eight years and published in 1989. It contains 24 pages and relates to the content strand ‘Materials and their uses’. Using full-colour illustrations, it explains how materials that seem weak can be used to produce strong ones.…
Forces
Ginn Science level three students’ book Forces was written for students aged seven to eight years and published in 1989. It contains 24 pages and relates to the content strand ‘Energy and forces’. It begins with examples of human strength and forces needed in using playground equipment and then considers the forces…
Growing Up
Ginn Science level three students’ book Growing Up was written for students aged seven to eight years and published in 1989. It contains 24 pages and relates to the content strand ‘Ourselves and healthy living’. Using full-colour illustrations it gives students information about changes that occur as they grow up,…
Homes and Shelters
Ginn Science level three students’ book Homes and Shelters was written for students aged seven to eight years and published in 1989. It contains 24 pages and relates to the content strand ‘Materials and their uses’. Using full-colour illustrations it introduces readers to the variety of materials used in buildings…
My Bike
The Ginn Science story book My Bike was written for students in Year Two (Primary Three) aged six to seven years and published in 1988. It relates to the content strand ‘Energy and forces’ and is intended for students to read independently. It gives drawings of a bicycle with main parts labelled. Unfortunately the children…
Cranes
The Ginn Science story book Cranes was written for students in Year Two (Primary Three) aged six to seven years and published in 1988. It relates to the content strand ‘Energy and forces’ and is intended for students to read independently. It gives full-colour illustrations of cranes being used to raise loads in a range…
Look!
The Ginn Science story book Look! was written for students in Year Two (Primary Three) aged six to seven and published in 1988. It relates to the content strand ‘Ourselves and healthy living’ and is intended for students to read independently. It tells the story of a girl who made a bead necklace for her mother and thought…
Sniffer’s Walk
The Ginn Science story book Sniffer’s Walk was written for students in Year Two (Primary Three) aged six to seven and published in 1988. It relates to the content strand ‘Ourselves and healthy living’ and is intended for students to read independently. It tells the story of two children taking their dog to the shops,…
The Rainy Day
The Ginn Science story book The Rainy Day was written for students in Year Two (Primary Three) aged six to seven and published in 1988. It relates to the content strand ‘Materials and their uses’ and is intended for students to read independently. It tells the story of a family visiting a park and caught in a sudden rainstorm…
Gerry’s House
The Ginn Science story book Gerry’s House was written for students in Year Two (Primary Three) aged six to seven and published in 1988. It relates to the content strand ‘Materials and their uses’ and is intended for students to read independently. It tells the story of a boy bringing home a gerbil and keeping it…
Our Pets
The Ginn Science story book Our Pets was written for students in Year Two (Primary Three) aged six to seven and published in 1988. It relates to the content strand ‘Other animals and plants’ and is intended for students to read independently. It tells a story about a family’s pet cat and dog, what they do, what…
At the Seaside
The Ginn Science story book At the Seaside was written for students in Year Two (Primary Three) aged six to seven and published in 1988. It relates to the content strand ‘Earth and Space’ and is intended for students to read independently. It tells the story of a family camping near the seaside and what they did on a…
My Day
The Ginn Science story book My Day was written for students in Year Two (Primary Three) aged six to seven and published in 1988. It relates to the content strand ‘Earth and Space’ and is intended for students to read independently. It tells the story of what a boy did on a school day from getting up to going to bed.
The Hot Day
The Ginn Science story book The Hot Day was written for Year One (Primary Two) students aged five to six years and published in 1988. It relates to content strand ‘Materials and their uses’. In full colour illustrations, it tells a story about an ice cream melting and dripping onto the ground on a hot day. There are captions…
Follow the Footprints
The Ginn Science story book Follow the Footprints was written for Year One (Primary Two) students aged five to six years and published in 1988. It relates to the content strand ‘Earth and space’. In full-colour illustrations it tells a story of two children following footprints and tracks in mud, soft sand and left after…
My New House
The Ginn Science story book about My New House was written for Year One (Primary Two) students aged five to six years and published in 1988. It relates to the content strand ‘Materials and their properties’. The full-colour pages depict photographs of the various stages of a house being built. Captions of a few words…
The Cold Day
The Ginn Science story book about a Cold Day was written for Year One (Primary Two) students aged five to six years and published in 1988. It relates to the content strand ‘Materials and their uses’. It tells a story about a girl going out to play on cold day and putting on clothing when various parts of her become cold.…
Summertime
The Ginn Science story book about Summertime was written for Year One (Primary Two) students aged five to six years and published in 1988. It relates to the content strand ‘Earth and space’. It illustrates, in full colour, the activities what a boy likes to be able to do and wear in summer, with a short sentence on each…
Winter
The Ginn Science story book about Winter was written for Year One (Primary Two) students aged five to six years and published in 1988. It relates to the content strand ‘Earth and space’. Through full-colour illustrations and no words it depicts various winter scenes showing people in thick warm clothing involved in activities…
The Garden Hose
The Ginn Science story book about the Garden Hose was written for Year One (Primary Two) students aged five to six years and published in 1988. It relates to the content strand ‘Energy and forces’. The full-colour illustrations describe a family using a garden hose in various activities which show the force of the water…
Fetch!
The Ginn Science story book Fetch! was written for Year One (Primary Two) students aged five to six years and published in 1988. It relates to the content strand ‘Energy and forces’. In full-colour pages, with words on only the first and last, it shows a family throwing objects into a pond for a dog to fetch. The dog…
Down the Slide
The Ginn Science story book Down the Slide was written for Year One (Primary Two) students aged five to six years and published in 1988. It relates to the content strand ‘Energy and forces’. In full-colour pages, it shows children playing on a slide, how one gets stuck and slides down sitting on a jumper. On each page…
I Can’t Reach
The Ginn Science story book I Can’t Reach was written for Year One (Primary Two) students aged five to six years and published in 1988. It relates to content strand ‘Ourselves and healthy living’. In full-colour pages, it describes how a small boy needs help to reach things that are too high for him but can reach…
Birthday Presents
The Ginn Science story book about Birthday Presents was written for Year One (Primary Two) students aged five to six years and published in 1988. It relates to the content strand ‘Ourselves and healthy living’. It tells a story through full colour drawings with few words of a girl with her birthday presents, feeling them…
Ginn Science: Year One Resource File
Ginn Science Year One Resource File for teachers was first published in 1988 and revised in 1995 to accommodate the 1995 National Curriculum in England and Wales. The revised file, of over 200 pages, contains full instructions for use of the materials provided to support science throughout Year One in England or Primary Two in Scotland…
The Search for Simple Substances
A Nature of Science reader that tells the story of how scientists have searched for some simple substances from which everything else might be made. The story starts with the discovery that fire could help to obtain metals from rocks and ends with Mendeleev’s triumphant discovery of the periodic law and the development of his…
10. Electronics of Control Systems
This Association for Science Education (ASE) publication about the Electronics of Controls Systems was developed in association with Marconi. At the time, the company was in the front rank of the world's defence electronics industry. Its wide range of activities also included space systems and computer-based and sonar underwater…