Cover; Table of Contents; 1 -- The Role of Activities and Investigations in Science Education; 2 -- Life and Living Processes; 3 -- Humans as Organisms; 4 -- Green Plants as Organisms; 5 -- Variety, Adaptation and Interdependence; 6 -- States of Matter and Physical Change; 7 -- Mechanical Properties of Materials and Objects; 8 -- Explaining Physical Changes; 9 -- Chemical Changes; 10 -- Obtaining and Making Materials; 11 -- Earth Science; 12 -- Energy; 13 -- Electricity; 14 -- Forces and Their Effects; 15 -- Gravity and Magnetism; 16 -- Sound; 17 -- Light; 18 -- The Earth in Space; Index
Summary
This volume aims to help teachers develop a basic repertoire of activities through which young students can learn to observe investigate, predict, interpret and communicate in a scientific way