Cambridge Essentials Science

For the Pupil

Each class book is accompanied by a pupil CD-ROM. This contains every page of the class book as an interactive PDF that adds pop-up questions, keywords, prior knowledge, outcomes and links to online e-learning activities.

What you get in the interactive PDF of the book

For the Teacher

The Cambridge Essentials teaching experience

Teacher CD-ROM contains the full pupil CD-ROM material and adds links to our updateable online planner. This provides a huge range of materials for teaching, all organised and matched to the book.

Teaching is supported at both levels by a range of worksheets, practicals, multiple-choice and SAT-style tests, e-learning tests, guidance, answers to the questions in the book, starters and plenaries, sample lesson plans, Assessment for Learning tasks, and more. The Planner makes it easy to switch between the books and between sections of a book. All the materials are presented clearly on screen with previews, and are available to download as printable PDFs and as editable files.

What is the benefit to you and your students?

• Affordable - Teacher materials, e-learning resources, book and CD-ROMs, all from just £13.50 per pupil.
• In-depth - comprehensively covers all the subject content whilst integrating How Science Works.
• Flexible - The book is supported by a range of worksheets, summaries, e-learning, lesson plans, tests and Assessment for Learning tasks.
• Updateable - Easy & quick to update with the Key Stage 3 curriculum

The Online Planner

To request a free two week trial contact cdowzell@cambridge.org

The Cambridge Essentials Online Planner makes it easy and quick for you to find all the activities that are associated with any section of the book.

• Updateable - easy and quick to update with key stage 3 curriculum changes.
• From each Topic of the teacher's interactive PDF, there is a link directly into the Planner. The Planner loads with the selected Topic displayed.
• Appropriate guidance (PoS references, learning outcomes, ideas for teaching and extension, functional maths etc) is shown alongside the book page.
• Associated e-learning activities are also displayed alongside the book.
• Worksheets, tests and all the other resources are listed in a menu.
• You can preview the sheets and download them to your computer for printing or editing.

Key features

• Provides guidance about how to use e-learning.
• Wide range of easy-to-download files.
• Editable worksheets, tests etc. are readily available.
• All resources are grouped by Topic for ease of teaching.
• Downloadable calendar gives an adaptable week-by-week schedule.

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Download sample teacher materials

These materials are provided here as PDF files, but the full version of Cambridge Essentials Science also gives you access to files that you can tailor in your word processor.

Activities

• 7A.2 Activity 2– Observing and recording
• 7A.3 Activity 1– Describing cells
• 7H.1 Activity 4– Separating mixtures
• 7H.3 Activity 9– Who wrote on the desk?
• 7L.1 Activity 4– Investigating how light and temperature change during a day
• 7L.5 Activity 8 – Planetary guide

Assessment

7A Assessment for Learning Task – How are animal cells different to plant cells?

• Task sheets 1, 2 , 3
• Mark sheet
• Notes sheet

7H Main multiple-choice test, with answers

Other resources

Answer sheet for book questions – Core 7A.3, Extension 7L.4

Starters and plenaries – 7A.3

Lesson plans – Core 7L.HSW, Extension 7H.2

e-Learning support

Check Your Progress model answers – 7A CP1, 7L CP1

Review Your Work model answers – 7A RW2, 7H RW1

Scientific Enquiry model answers – 7H SE1, 7H SE2