Nelson Thornes Home
Nelson Thornes Shop
 

Welcome to Year 8!

Spotlight Science lessons are offered in Double Page Spread format. Each lesson commences with a starter activity, designed to stimulate students’ thinking and to engage their interest.

Interactive Series Guide Click here to view
this brand new
Interactive Series Guide
for the Spiral Edition.

Each lesson concludes with summary questions for consolidation of knowledge and understanding.

Spotlight Science’s user-friendly style of presentation is unrivalled. Highly imaginative and varied layouts help to sustain students’ enthusiasm throughout the course. It is accessible yet challenging to students of all abilities.

Choose from the QCA Framework Edition or the Spiral Edition to suit your preferred teaching and your students’ preferred learning style.

QCA Framework Edition contents include:
Food and digestion
Respiration
Microbes
Ecological relationships
Atoms and elements
Compounds and mixtures
Rocks and weathering
The rock cycle
Heating and cooling
Magnets and electromagnets
Light
Sound and hearing

The Spiral Edition contents include:
Populations
Using forces
Elements
Food and digestion
Earth and space
Staying alive
Sight and sound
World of water
Energy
Chemical reactions
Electricity
Plants at work

Year 8 Links -

Focus on ICT

Teachers Support Pack

Assessment and Resource Pack

Special Educational Needs Support Pack

The QCA Framework Edition exactly matches the QCA Scheme of Work and the Spiral Edition closely correlates to the QCA Scheme of Work.
Download the mapping documents for the Spiral Edition here.

Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
Scotland
Samples
 
The contents and graphics of this web site are copyright of Nelson Thornes Limited 2003