A My World and Textease support pack COLLECTION of 7 titles for KS2 Science with activities on most aspects of the Science curriculum appropriate for this age group. CREATED by a former SCIENCE TEACHER, MORE SCIENCE is an extensive resource with over 200 screens. Click on the links below to view the individual titles in this collection. See THE TITLE AND THE CURRICULUM below for more information.
- screens on circuits, bulbs, switches, sources of energy and ways of producing electricity.
- screens on types of forces including magnetic force, gravity forces and water resistance.
- screens parts of flowering plants, photosynthesis, pollination, fertilisation, growing seeds and transport.
- screens on parts of the body, circulation, teeth, movement, breathing, diet, the effects of smoking and alcohol.
- screens on light and sound, sight and hearing, the earth, moon and planets.
- screens on life processes, food chains, number pyramids, keys, microbes and adaptation.
- screens on the water cycle, recognising, grouping and seperating common materials.
The adaptable nature of the screens and the numerous 'open ended' NEW SCREEN opportunities make MORE SCIENCE an extremely useful teaching aid whereby the number of potential activities is only limited by the imagination of the teacher!
GENERAL INFORMATION:
The Textease format has software speech. The My World format has scaling buttons that are particularly useful for children with VISUAL IMPAIRMENT. The CD-ROM includes both the the My World 3 and Textease format of the software. The My World 3 format self installs. The Textease format must be manually installed.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS SOFTWARE REQUIRES MY WORLD OR TEXTEASE TO RUN.
Both the English and English / Welsh versions of My World 3 are available from ClicSoft.
More Science is also available in Welsh.
The screens provide a variety of activities including dragging, labelling, sorting and investigative activities. Many may lead to related classroom activities e.g. 'hands on' practical work. Buttons enable pupils to access task, help and research panels enabling them to work individually or in groups with minimal teacher supervision. Text buttons, word and picture banks may be used to add further information to the screens.
A 'New Screen' option accessed via the Task panels is a useful extra function. The new screens are normally blank, but have the same buttons as the related screens. They may be customised by teachers and pupils alike and used to extend topic areas or complete tasks set by the teacher. They are useful when the related screens have fixed graphic / or text and for adapting the set activities for pupils with special needs.
This software is particularly useful for introducing new topic areas and revising previous topics. The nature of both My World and Textease means that the screens are adaptable. The software may be used as both text book and exercise book and may be customised by teachers and pupils alike. The screens do not self correct giving children the opportunity to make and justify their own decisions. With differentiation by outcome, each screen thus provides assessment opportunities.
A collection of 7 titles - incorporating ELECTRICITY AND POWER, FORCES AND MOTION, GREEN PLANTS AS ORGANISMS, HUMANS AS ORGANISMS, LIGHT, SOUND & THE EARTH AND BEYOND, LIVING THINGS IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT and MATERIALS AND THEIR PROPERTIES. MORE SCIENCE supports most of the requirements of KS2 Science (ages 7 - 11). The areas of the curriculum covered by this extensive resource are shown under the individual titles below. Full documenatation and sample screen shot PDF files may be viewed by clicking the links on the individual title information.
This title supports many of the National Curriculum requirements for Key Stage 2 relating to ELECTRICITY. Some aspects of the KS3 syllabus have been included to enable gifted and talented pupils to make further progress. A further section on electricity production has been included to support further interest / project work and educational visits.
KEY STAGE 2 – SC4 PHYSICAL PROCESSES - ELECTRICITY:
1a) to construct circuits incorporating a battery or power supply and a range of switches to make electrical devices work.
1b) how changing the number or type of components makes bulbs brighter or dimmer.
1c) how to represent series circuits by drawing and conventional symbols, and how to construct series circuits on the basis of drawings and diagrams using conventional symbols.
KEY STAGE 3 – SC4 PHYSICAL PROCESSES - ELECTRICITY:
1a) how to design and construct series and parallel circuits.
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This title supports many of the National Curriculum requirements for Key Stage 2 relating to FORCES AND MOTION. Some aspects of the KS3 syllabus have been included to enable gifted and talented pupils to make further progress.
KEY STAGE 2 – SC4 PHYSICAL PROCESSES - FORCES AND MOTION:
Types of force:
2a) about the forces of attraction and repulsion between magnets, and the forces of
attraction between magnets and magnetic materials.
2b) that objects are pulled downwards because of the gravitational attraction between
them and the Earth.
2c) about friction, including air resistance, as a force that slows moving objects and may
prevent objects from starting to move.
2d) that when objects are pulled or pushed, an opposing pull or push can be felt.
2e) how to measure forces and identify the direction in which they act.
KEY STAGE 3 – SC4 PHYSICAL PROCESSES - FORCES AND MOTION:
Types of force:
2b) that the weight of an object is the result of the gravitational force between its mass
and that of the Earth.
2c) that unbalanced forces change the speed or direction of movement of objects and that
balanced forces produce no change in the movement of an object.
2c) ways in which frictional forces, including air resistance affect motion.
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The title supports many of the National Curriculum requirements for Key Stage 2 relating to GREEN PLANTS AS ORGANISMS. Some aspects of the KS3 syllabus have been included to enable gifted and talented pupils to make further progress.
KEY STAGE 2 - SC2 LIFE PROCESSES AND LIVING THINGS - GREEN PLANTS AS ORGANISMS:
Growth and nutrition:
3a) the effect of light, air, water and temperature on plant growth.
3b) the role of the leaf in producing new material for growth.
3c) the root anchors plants in the ground, and that water and minerals are transported around the plant.
3d) the parts of a flower, pollination, seed formation, seed dispersal and germination. Variation and classification:
4a) to make and use keys – ICT opportunity.
KEY STAGE 3 - SC2 LIFE PROCESSES AND LIVING THINGS - GREEN PLANTS AS ORGANISMS:
Growth and nutrition:
3a) that plants need carbon dioxide, water and light for photosynthesis, and produce biomass and oxygen.
3b) to summarise photosynthesis in a word equation.
3d) the role of root hairs in absorbing water and minerals from the soil.
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The title supports many of the National Curriculum requirements for Key Stage 2 relating to HUMANS AS ORGANISMS. Some aspects of the KS3 syllabus have been included to enable gifted and talented pupils to make further progress.
KEY STAGE 2 - SC2 LIFE PROCESSES AND LIVING THINGS - HUMANS AND OTHER ORGANISMS:
Nutrition:
2a) about the functions and care of the teeth.
2b) about the need for food for activity and growth
Circulation:
2c) that the heart acts as a pump to circulate blood through vessels around the body including the lungs.
2d) about the effect of exercise on pulse rate.
Movement:
2e) that humans have skeletons and muscles.
Growth and reproduction:
2f) about the main stages in the life cycle.
Health:
2g) about the effect of tobacco and alcohol on the body.
KEY STAGE 3 - SC2 LIFE PROCESSES AND LIVING THINGS - HUMANS AND OTHER ORGANISMS:
Nutrition:
2a) about the need for a balanced diet containing carbohydrates, proteins, fats, minerals,
vitamins, fibre and water, and about foods that are sources of these.
Movement:
2e) the role of the skeleton and joints and the principle of antagonistic muscle pairs.
Reproduction:
2h) how the foetus develops in the uterus.
Breathing:
2i) the role of the lung in breathing including the effect of smoking.
Health:
2m) that the abuse of alcohol affects health.
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The title supports many of the National Curriculum requirements for Key Stage 2 relating to Light and sound plus the Earth andbeyond. Some aspects of the KS3 syllabus have been included to enable gifted and talented pupils to make further progress.
KEY STAGE 2 – SC4 LIGHT AND SOUND:
3a) that light travels from a source.
3b) that light cannot pass through some materials and this leads to the formation of shadows.
3c) that light is reflected from surfaces.
3d) that we see things when light enters our eyes.
3e) that sounds are made when objects vibrate but that the vibrations are not always visible.
3f) how to change the pitch and loudness of sounds.
3g) that vibrations from sound sources require a medium through which to travel to the ear.
KEY STAGE 2 – SC4 THE EARTH AND BEYOND:
4a) that the Sun, Earth and moon are approximately spherical.
4b) how the position of the Sun appears to change during the day and how shadows change as this happens.
4c) how day and night are related to the spin of the Earth on its own axis.
4d) that the Earth orbits the Sun once each year and that the Moon takes approximately 24 hours to orbit the Earth.
KEY STAGE 3 – SC4 LIGHT AND SOUND:
3g) that sound causes the eardrum to vibrate.
3j) the relationship between the loudness of a sound and the amplitude of the vibration causing it.
3k) the relationship between the pitch of a sound and the frequency of the vibration causing it.
KEY STAGE 3 – SC4 THE EARTH AND BEYOND:
4a) how then movement of the Earth causes apparent daily movement of the Sun.
4b) the relative positions of the Earth, Sun and planets in the solar system.
4c) about the movements of planets around the Sun and to relate these to gravitational forces.
4d) that the Sun is a light source.
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The title supports many of the National Curriculum requirements for Key Stage 2 relating to Living things in their environment. Some aspects of the KS3 syllabus have been included to enable gifted and talented pupils to make further
progress.
KEY STAGE 2 - SC2 LIFE PROCESSES AND LIVING THINGS - LIVING THINGS IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT:
Variation and classification:
4a) to make and use keys.
4b) how locally occurring plants can be identified and assigned to groups.
4c) that the variety of plants and animals makes it important to identify them and assign them to groups.
Adaptation:
5b) about the different plants and animals found in different habitats.
5c) how animals and plants in two different habitats are suited to their environment.
Feeding relationships:
5c) to use food chains to show feeding relationships in a habitat.
5e) how nearly all the food chains start with a green plant.
Micro-organisms:
That micro-organisms are living organisms that are too small to be seen and that they may be beneficial or harmful.
KEY STAGE 3 - SC2 LIFE PROCESSES AND LIVING THINGS - LIVING THINGS IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT:
Variation:
4b) to classify living things into major taxonomic groups.
Adaptation and competition:
5b) that habitats support a diversity of plants and animals that are interdependent.
Feeding relationships:
5e) about food webs composed of several food chains, and how food chains can be quantified using pyramids of numbers.
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The title supports many of the National Curriculum requirements for Key Stage 2 relating to Materials and their properties. Some aspects of the KS3 syllabus have been included to enable gifted and talented pupils to make further progress.
KEY STAGE 2 – SC3 MATERIALS AND THEIR PROPERTIES:
Grouping and classifying materials:
1a) To compare everyday materials and objects on the basis of their properties and to relate these properties to everyday uses of the materials.
1b) that some materials are better thermal insulators than others.
1c) that some materials are better electrical conductors than others.
1d) to describe and group rocks and soils on the basis of their characteristics, including appearance, texture and permeability.
1e) to recognise differences between solids, liquids and gases, in terms of ease of flow and maintenance of shape and volume.
Changing materials:
2a) to describe changes that occur when materials are mixed.
2b to describe changes that occur when materials are heated or cooled.
2c) that temperature is a measure of how hot or cold things are.
2d) about reversible changes including dissolving, melting, boiling, condensing, freezing and evaporating.
2e) the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle.
2f) that non-reversible changes result in the formation of new materials.
2g) that burning materials results in the formation of new materials.
Separating mixtures of materials:
3a) how to separate particles of different sizes by sieving.
3b) that some solids dissolve in water to give solutions but some do not.
3c) how to separate insoluble solids from water by filtering.
3d) how to recover dissolved solids by evaporating the liquid from the solution.
3e) to use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated.
KEY STAGE 3 – SC3 MATERIALS AND THEIR PROPERTIES:
Geological changes:
2e) about the formation of rocks and that the mode of formation determined their texture.
2f) how igneous rocks are formed by the cooling of magma, sedimentary rocks by the
deposition of sediments and metamorphic rocks by the action of heat or pressure on
existing rocks.
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