Teacher Support
Explicit and comprehensive coverage of the new Western Australian Curriculum
New adaptive formative and summative assessments to help you differentiate learning, target support, and measure student growth
Draws on best-practice science teaching to help guide your students to success in science
Even more time-saving support in the Online Teaching Suite for every teacher, including those teaching out-of-field
Authoritative interpretation of the new Western Australian Curriculum by expert authors ensures that you can be confident that the resources are closely aligned to the new requirements. Curriculum boxes at the start of every chapter label relevant curriculum sub-strands and signpost which inquiry strand examples are included in the chapter to ensure curriculum alignment.
The integration of practicals and inquiry skills within the content allows your students to learn skills in context and draw connections between topics.
New comprehensive teacher notes and a curated internet resource list helps you find reliable information relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ knowledge and practices.
NEW ready-made adaptive pre-tests and post-tests are provided for each chapter. Tests are auto-marked and adaptive to student responses. Two report types allow teachers to easily identify gaps in knowledge.
NEW levelled questions have been added to the test generator where teachers can quickly create customised tests from a bank of multiple-choice questions. Tests are auto-marked in the Interactive Textbook or can be printed and used for homework or assessment practice.
Downloadable chapter tests are now carefully levelled with three levels of multiple-choice questions supporting all levels of student ability.
NEW practical videos guide students through targeted practicals which require specific laboratory skills; from using a Bunsen burner in Year 7, through to conducting chemical reactions in Year 10.
Practicals are accompanied by comprehensive teacher notes with a range of additional information, including expected results and photos of experimental set ups. All practicals have been completely revised and enhanced by a lab technician to ensure scientific accuracy and easy application for students across all year levels.
NEW comprehensive Teacher notes for all topics and STEM activities support every teacher, including out-of-field teachers, to deliver the new curriculum.
Levelled questions in downloadable and editable worksheets, and even more prior knowledge and extension material for capable students, allows teachers to cater for the varying abilities of students.
The Online Teaching Suite also gives you access to the full student Interactive Textbook, plus a powerful Learning Management System, including access to student responses in workspaces, a task manager to direct your students on a custom activity sequence based on their scores in measurable tasks, and a range of assessment and reporting tools.
One of the best-practice methods utilised in this series is the Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER) framework. This CER framework encourages students to progressively develop a systematic critical thinking routine that they can use to draw conclusions from practical science experiments. This method develops scientifically literate students who connect their learning to what they discover in experiments and competently produce evidence-based explanations and arguments.
The Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER) framework is implemented across a variety of different activities and question sets, including visible thinking, chapter tests and worksheets.
Practicals contain structured questions to guide and encourage students to form a valid conclusion drawn from evidence and develop key inquiry skills in preparation for WACE Science.
