A My World and Textease support pack COLLECTION for KS1 Science with activities on most aspects of the Science curriculum appropriate for this age group. Full documenatation and sample screen shot PDF files may be viewed by clicking the links on the individual title pages. Click on the links below to view the individual titles in this collection. See THE TITLE AND THE CURRICULUM below for more information.
- includes activities on alive and not alive, animals and plants, the body, alike and not alike, food, growth, flowering plants and grouping organisms.
- includes activities on everyday appliances that use electricity, simple circuits, switches, pushing and pulling, changing shape, changing speed and direction, light sources, making and detecting sounds.
- includes activities on different types of homes including animal homes, building houses, recognising everyday materials on the basis of their properties, grouping materials and some aspects of scientific enquiry.
The adaptable nature of the screens and the 'open ended' NEW SCREEN opportunities make STARTING 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.
Starting 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 intervention. Text buttons, word and picture banks may be used to add further information to the screens.
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. They 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. Each screen thus provides assessment opportunities.
A collection of 3 titles - incorporating LIFE PROCESSES AND LIVING THINGS, PHYSICAL PROCESSES and HOMES AND HOUSES. STARTING SCIENCE supports most of the requirements of KS1 Science (ages 4 - 7). The areas of the curriculum covered by this 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.
The programs of study covered by this title are:
SC2 LIFE PROCESSES AND LIVING THINGS:
!a: differences between things that are living and things that have never been alive.
1b: that animals use their senses.
2a: recognise and compare the main external parts of the bodies of humans:
2b: that eating the right types and amounts of food help humans keep healthy.
2f: that humans and other animals can produce offspring and that these offspring grow
into adults.
2g: about the senses that enable humans and other animals to be aware of the world
around them.
3a: plants need light and water to grow.
3b: recognise and name the leaf, flower, stem and root of flowering plants..
3c: that seeds grow into flowering plants.
4a: recognise similarities and differences between themselves and others.
4b: grouping living things according to observable similarities and differences.
4b: grouping things according to observable similarities and differences.
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SC4 PHYSICAL PROCESSES:
1a: about everyday appliances that use electricity.
1b: about simple circuits involving batteries, bulbs and wires.
1c: how a switch can be used to break a circuit.
2a: to find out and describe going faster, going slower, changing direction.
2b: that both pushes and pulls are examples of forces.
2c: to recognise that when things slow down or change direction there is a cause.
3a: to identify different light sources.
3b: that darkness is the absence of light.
3c: there are many kinds of sound and sources of sound.
3d: that sounds travel from sources getting fainter as they do so and they are heard when
they enter the ear.
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SC1 SCIENTIFIC ENQUIRY:
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1b: that it is important to test ideas using evidence from observation and measurement.
2a: ask questions that can be investigated scientifically and decide how to find ideas.
2b: consider what sources of information to use.
2c: think about what might happen.
2d: make a fair test.
2e: use simple equipment appropriately.
2f: make observations.
SC3 MATERIALS AND THIER PROPERTIES:
1a: to explore and recognise the similarities and differences between materials.
1b: to sort objects into groups on the basis of simple material properties.
1c: recognise and name common types of material.
1d: find out about the uses of a variety of materials.
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RELATED TITLE:-
EARLY SCIENCE - a Stand Alone Collection for Foundation / KS1 Science with activities on most aspects of the Science curriculum appropriate for this age group.
SCHOOLZONE EVALUATION OF EARLY SCIENCE
