Features

• Guidance on the key teaching approaches and how to use them in your classroom
• The ‘Background knowledge’ section gives you key information on each unit so you have the detail you need to teach confidently
• The ‘Teaching skills focus’ helps you develop your own teaching style and bring active learning, assessment for learning and differentiation into your classroom with confidence
• ‘Common misconceptions’ highlight areas that learners frequently find challenging and show you how to overcome them
• The lesson plan for each topic shows you how your lessons link to the Cambridge Primary Science curriculum framework
• Downloadable tests, with answers, provide ready-made assessment opportunities

Contents

• 1. The human body
• 2. Materials: properties and changes
• 3. Rocks, the rock cycle and soil
• 4. Food chains and food webs
• 5. Forces and electricity
• 6. Light and the solar system.