Extensive coverage of the curriculum for P4–P7 Science
Explore science with comprehensive and varied teaching material. Primary Science for Scotland contains over 825 slides, enabling pupils to explore, discover and engage directly with science. This interactive simulation about Earth and Space provides a clear and simple model of the solar system.
- Boardworks Primary Science for Scotland is matched to the broad attainment outcomes for science as outlined in the 5–14 Curriculum for Environmental Studies.
- Attainment outcomes have a number of strands that pupils experience. Each strand is matched to attainment targets at five or six levels (A–E or A–F) that pupils progress through as they master the curriculum. Primary Science for Scotland offers excellent coverage of levels B–E, which are relevant and appropriate for P4–P7 pupils.
Well-organised resources for whatever you’re teaching
All lessons are coherently and logically structured, allowing quick access to the most appropriate and inspiring material. Colour-coding allows you to distinguish between the areas of scientific learning and enquiry at a glance.
- Content is organized according to the broad attainment outcomes, namely Earth and Space, Energy and Forces, and Living Things and the Processes of Life.
- Earth and Space has a blue slide design, Energy and Forces has an orange slide design and Living things and the Processes of Life has a green slide design.
- A ‘search by level’ option allows you to easily find suitable content within each strand.
Easy-to-use and ready-to-teach
Boardworks lessons are fully prepared and contain a wide variety of resources, saving you and your colleagues valuable preparation time. This simulation compares different light beams and clearly explains how light and shadows are created, helping all your pupils to understand the topic.
- Realistic simulations allow students to make observations, interact with the experiment and draw their own conclusions.
- Pupils are encouraged to make predictions and to think about expected outcomes. Simulations and animations can be repeated to reinforce and enrich pupils’ understanding of the topic.
Flexible, customisable resources
All the lessons are fully flexible and can be easily tailored to the needs of your pupils. Because they are in PowerPoint, the units are adaptable to any school’s teaching approach. Slides can be re-arranged, edited and extended to suit the individual needs of your class.
- All presentations are created in PowerPoint for ease of use, versatility and editability.
- The editable resources give you the freedom to be as creative as you wish while remaining confident that attainment targets within each strand are incorporated.
Inspiringly interactive
Embrace the interactive potential of your whiteboard and bring science lessons to life. Activities, like this drag and drop exercise about animals and their habitats, motivate your students and allow them to learn in a fun and memorable way.
- Over 405 interactive slides are embedded throughout the lessons.
- Comprehensive photographs show science in a real-life context.
- Fun and playful illustrations motivate and accelerate learning.
A wealth of exciting ideas
Explore science in a unique, engaging and stimulating way. Virtual experiments allow pupils to make predictions, conduct the experiment, record observations and collect data, graph results and finally, to draw conclusions. Here, pupils create a bar graph with the data collected during an experiment to test the amount of slope required to get an object moving on different surfaces.
- Step-by-step animations introduce and clarify important concepts in an accessible manner.
- Virtual experiments and simulations provide easily observable explanations for the whole class.
Additional teaching support
Boardworks presentations are complemented by numerous additional resources to enhance your teaching and ensure that you, and your pupils, get the most out of the learning resources. The following slide is an example of one of many template slides, which can be printed out and used as worksheets.
- A detailed curriculum map lists the units in each level with the corresponding attainment targets for each strand and attainment outcome.
- Each unit is accompanied by printable teacher’s notes that provide further explanations of scientific concepts and ideas for extension activities.
- The interactive menu outlines what pupils will learn at the start of each chapter.
Engaging and comprehensive from start to finish
Round up your lessons with interesting and varied plenaries, like this comprehension exercise consolidating pupils’ learning about solids, liquids and how they can be separated. Whatever your teaching style, Boardworks resources contain everything you need to comprehensively cover a topic from start to finish.
- A wide variety of plenary and review activities are designed to summarise teaching points, highlight key vocabulary and test understanding – enabling pupils to explain scientific concepts in their own words.