Extensive coverage of the curriculum for S1–S4 Science
Explore every element of science for S1–S4 with comprehensive and varied teaching material, including this innovative, step-by-step simulation about catalase activity. With over 1,800 slides across 77 presentations, Boardworks gives you everything you need to cover the Scottish science curriculum, and is ideal for teaching the Curriculum for Excellence.
- Boardworks Science for Scotland provides extensive coverage of S1–S2 of the 5–14 Guidelines and is matched to the SQA arrangements for Standard Grade Biology, Chemistry and Physics at S3–S4.
- The wealth of material contained in each presentation enables you to explore and teach your subject in detail.
Well-organised resources for whatever you’re teaching
All presentations are logically structured and enhanced by a wealth of material to ensure you get the most out of your lessons. Typical slides, like this one about stopping distances, combine the main teaching points, clearly conveyed, with relevant illustrative material.
- The easy-to-use menu structure divides the presentations into useful sections, making it easy to select appropriate material for your lesson.
- Accurate diagrams and topical illustrations supplement key facts and aid overall understanding.
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. Fun animations, like this one about orbits, can help explain complex processes and theories in an appealing and informative way.
- Attention-grabbing interactives enhance lessons and motivate your students.
- Interesting and varied activities clarify difficult concepts and allow students to gain a deeper understanding of important scientific ideas.
Inspiringly interactive
Embrace the interactive potential of your whiteboard and explore the concepts of science in a unique, appealing and stimulating way. For example, involve your class in predicting energy changes using this dynamic drag-and-drop diagram.
- Use your whiteboard technology to demonstrate important processes in a unique, thorough and fully engaging way.
- Inspire your students to take science further with stimulating games, interactive graphs and thoughtful animations.
- Over 550 interactive activities are embedded throughout the lessons.
A wealth of exciting ideas
Present important scientific ideas and theories in a visually appealing and easily recalled way. For example, use this interactive drag-and-drop labelling activity to measure students’ understanding of states of matter. The activity can also be use as an introduction or revision exercise on the subject.
- Support and enhance practical lessons with thought-provoking virtual experiments and animations.
- Simplify complex scientific theories with interactive diagrams and step-by-step simulations.
Easy-to-use, flexible resources
With Boardworks Science for Scotland, you can easily tailor the resources to the needs of your students. This true or false activity could be used as a plenary or a revision exercise on adaption. It could also be used at the start of the lesson to determine students’ existing knowledge of the subject matter.
- 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 meet the different learning needs of your students.
Additional teaching support
Boardworks presentations contain numerous additional features to enhance your lessons in a multitude of ways. For example, detailed mapping grids explain how each course is covered, mapping to levels D, E and F at S1–S2 and General and Credit levels at S3–S4.
- The comprehensive interactive menu system makes it straightforward to find and select the material you want to teach, and easily incorporate it into your lesson structure.
- Detailed contents guides give you a handy reference to the materials and are a great aid for lesson planning.
Engaging summary material
Round up your lessons with engaging summary activities. This interactive chromosome activity is an ideal way to ensure your class are able to understand the process of mitosis. 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.
- End-of-topic anagram plenaries and multiple-choice quizzes reinforce understanding of scientific terms and concepts.