Cambridge Science for the NSW Syllabus Stage 5

Cambridge Science for New South Wales Stages 4&5 provides the opportunity for every student to master essential knowledge and skills while providing the right depth of content to ensure students can succeed at high levels.

Ensuring students meet the learning goals are features such as:

• Chapter maps – visual representations of the topic.
• Learning goals – helpful dot points to outline what the students will learn in the chapter ahead.
• Visually appealing Chapter content – presented in a clear uncluttered layout with student friendly language and carefully chosen illustrations, photos and diagrams.
• Quick Check questions – that assess a student’s information retention as they progress through the content plus Explore activities to extend capable students.
• A wide range of hands-on practical activities – teacher demonstrations, student-designed experiments, open-ended investigations and authentic STEM activities integrated throughout each chapter
• Chapter Checklist – with short example questions to help students revise and ensure that every piece of content is linked to a learning objective.
• Reflection activities – encouraging students to make connections to their lives, wonder at how they have been extended and what concepts have challenged them.
• A skills chapter in each Staged book to prepare students for working scientifically.

• Pre-tests
• Auto-marked quizzes
• Videos
• Interactive widgets
• Scorcher quiz
• Workspaces
• Self-assessment tools
• Downloadable graded worksheets
• And more…

• Pre-tests to check prior knowledge
• Two levels of quizzes
• Working programs for section questions
• Graded, downloadable worksheets with suggested responses
• And a powerful Learning Management System with:
  • Task management functions
  • A Test generator
  • Access to all student responses to questions
  • A suite of reporting tools