
- 193 pages
- English
- PDF
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A Background to Primary School Science
About this book
The Australian Academy of Science has had a long standing interest in the provision of science education to Australian school students. Recognising that skills and attitudes in science are acquired at an early age, the Academy in 1994 launched a major program in science education at primary school level under the title Primary Inves
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Table of contents
- Preliminary pages
- Preface to Revised Edition
- Preface to 1995 Edition
- Contents
- 1. This Thing Called Science
- 2. Getting the Facts
- 3. Change and Energy
- 4. Hearing and Seeing
- 5. The Universe and Everything
- 6. This Earth of Ours
- 7. Weather and Climate
- 8. Magnetism and Electricity
- 9. Atoms, Molecules and Chemistry
- 10. Useful Materials
- 11. Life and Living
- 12. The World of Plants
- 13. The World of Animals
- 14. Living with Nature
- 15. Materials and Structures
- 16. Tools and Machines
- 17. Communicating Information
- Appendix A: Scientific method
- Appendix B: Scientific units
- Appendix C: Science andEthics
- Bibliography
- Index
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