Total coverage of the curriculum for GCSE Core Science
Boardworks offers a wealth of material to help you teach every aspect of GCSE Core Science, such as this step-by-step sequence about the carbon cycle. With over 2,000 slides of material, Boardworks GCSE Core Science gives you everything you need to teach the new 2011 specifications.
- Provides comprehensive coverage of GCSE Core Science across Biology, Chemistry and Physics.
- Designed expressly to cover the Controlled Assessment and the ‘How Science Works’ elements of the GCSE specifications.
- Comprehensively covers the AQA Science A, OCR Gateway, OCR 21st Century Science and Edexcel exam board syllabuses in line with the 2011 specification.
- The resources are also mapped to the Cambridge and Edexcel IGCSE specifications.
Well-organised resources for whatever you’re teaching
All presentations are logically structured and enhanced by a wide range of material to ensure you get the most out of your lessons. The interactive menu system allows you to browse the resources by specification or by topic, making it easy to find and select material you want to teach with.
- Typical slides combine the main teaching points, clearly conveyed, with informative illustrative material.
- Detailed virtual experiments and simulations clarify scientific concepts.
Time saving and ready-to-teach
Boardworks lessons are ready-to-teach and contain a wide variety of resources, saving you and your colleagues valuable preparation time. Exciting activities, like this one about how insulation can improve fuel bills, help explain complex processes and theories in a fun yet informative way.
- Interesting and varied interactives enhance lessons and motivate your students.
- Accurate diagrams and topical illustrations supplement key facts and aid overall understanding of the subject.
Inspiringly interactive
Embrace the interactive potential of your whiteboard and explore science in a unique, engaging and stimulating way. This visually-appealing interactive activity on analysing indicator species to locate a sewage outfall, makes a great whole-class activity, encouraging debate and discussion at each point.
- The resources contain a wealth of material focusing on 'How Science Works' skills, with useful icons to indicate where this material is covered.
- Boardworks GCSE Science contains extensive material covering Controlled Assessment.
- Use your whiteboard technology to facilitate class discussion and encourage and focus lively debates.
A wealth of exciting ideas
Present important scientific ideas and theories in a visually appealing and easily recalled way. Clearly explain how different metals react with acid, for example, by using this exciting interactive activity without the need for so much as safety goggles!
- Support and enhance practical lessons with thought-provoking virtual experiments and animations.
- Simplify complex scientific theories with interactive diagrams and step-by-step simulations.
- Demonstrate dynamic processes in a unique, thorough and easily understood manner.
Easy-to-use, flexible resources
With Boardworks GCSE Core Science, you can easily tailor the resources to the needs of your students. This engaging virtual experiment about electricity distribution can be incorporated into lessons as required: as a precursor to running a practical in the lab, for example, or for revision purposes.
- All presentations are created in PowerPoint for ease of use, versatility and editability.
- Presentations can be added to and enhanced with your own ideas and resources.
- Activities can be used flexibly, both to support your own teaching methods and to meet the different learning needs of your students.
Additional teaching support
Boardworks presentations contain numerous additional features which can enhance your lessons in a multitude of ways. For example, the wealth of worksheets in the resources, which accompany each presentation, are great for homework or for extension activities.
- The comprehensive interactive menu system makes it straightforward to find and select the material you want to teach, by topic or by specification, and easily incorporate it into your lesson structure.
- The detailed contents guides that accompany the resources are well-organised, easily navigable and great for lesson planning.
Engaging summary material
Round up your lessons with engaging summary activities. For example, use this voting and opinion poll activity about quarrying limestone to review the key facts covered in the Quarrying topic. Whatever your teaching style, Boardworks resources contain everything you need to comprehensively cover a subject from start to finish.
- Motivating summary material helps students to master the subject and facilitates revision.
- Multiple-choice quizzes and evaluative exercises cover the entire content of the course.
- Voting and opinion poll activities explore pertinent issues and encourage discussion and debate.
