Magnets And Springs

Explains esssential facts about magnets and springs, including magnetic fields, electromagnets, stretching springs, and tension, with instructions for experiments.

Explains what magnets and springs are and how they work.

Learn about magnetism, magnetic fields, natural magnets and how a spring works. The topics of magnets and springs are approached in a simple and clear way. The concepts are complemented by new artwork and specially-commissioned photography featuring children. Each step-by-step experiment has been tried in the classroom and is illustrated with photography which encourages children's understanding. Each book is bright, colourful and simple in its design.

Designed to provide the ideal solution for teaching junior science, "New Star Science 3" books are aimed at the third primary school year. These teacher's notes provide a background to the unit as well as photocopiables and assessment material. The focus of this text is "magnets and springs".

New Star Science contains flexible unit packs from Foundation through to Year 6 with all the resources you need to teach Primary Science as you choose or in line with the QCA Scheme of Work. And with new Assessing Pupils' Progress support and BBC Active software, it's the most comprehensive yet flexible science resource in the UK.

This kit has been devised to help teachers of primary science in schools of all sizes. The two-year age band structure, the compact size of the resources, correlation to the QCA Scheme of Work and recommended teaching times all contribute to making teaching science more effective in the school. The Teacher Resource Books contain a comprehensive series of clearly structured lesson plans that enable you to teach the QCA Scheme of Work, with six units in each year.

Presents information on a wide variety of topics in basic biology, chemistry, and physics.