Teacher's Guide to the Series

Science in a Topic Teacher’s Guide to the Series provides notes on each of the sections in the students’ topic books, including equipment and materials needed, and general guidance about the importance of science and the nature of science activity. There is an extended list of advantages and disadvantages of a topic approach. There is discussion and illustration of the skills of science, taken to be observation, comparing and classifying predicting, testing and experimenting, measuring and conclusions. The guide provides a list of the concepts covered within the series and a chart of where these appear in the books. These is also a list showing how the activities in the books can be rearranged under other topic headings, such as air, electricity and animals. It concludes with a detailed index to the topic books.

Contents
Introduction: about the series
Specific notes on each book, including equipment and materials required
Clothes and costume
Communication
Food
Houses and Homes
In the air
Moving on Land
Roads, Bridges and Tunnels
Ships
Sports and Games
Skills, methods and processes of science
The content: concepts covered
Other routes through
The role of the science
Areas of experience
Recording and communication
Integration
The topic approach
Index to the series

Charts
The skills of Science
The methods of science
The fundamental ideas

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