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Welcome to Year 9!

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:
Inheritance and selection
Fit and healthy
Plants and photosynthesis
Plants for food
Reactions of metals and metal compounds
Patterns of reactivity
Environmental chemistry
Using chemistry
Energy and electricity
Gravity and space
Speeding up
Pressure and moments

The Spiral Edition contents include:
Pollution
Energy
Elements, mixtures and compounds
The active body
Sight and sound
Health
Using forces
Matter
Variation
Chemical reactions
Electricity and magnetism


Year 9 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.

New additions to the Year 9 book include:
Now 40% more pages
More applications of Physics, Biology and Chemistry at work
New Sc1 ‘Ideas and Evidence’ spread for each topic
New spreads on Industrial and Environmental Applications of Science at Work
ICT and use of Data Loggers
Detailed glossary
New summary page for revision of each topic
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