Science Skills workbook
Workbook aimed at covering all of the skills required to study Applied Science at level 3 - could also be useful for level 2. There are engaging activities for each one which can be embedded into the lesson, used as independent study, or form the basis of a lesson. There are also a couple of useful tables at the back.
Skills covered are:
- Organising units & Coursework
- Writing in the future passive tense
- Writing scientific reports (aim, research, hypothesis, method, results, conclusions, evaluations)
- Referencing
- Researching
- Writing chemical formulae (Organic/Inorganic)
- Standard form and rounding (sig figs/decimal places)
- Balancing chemical equations
- Types of variable (independent, dependent, control)
- Graphs
- Risk Assessments
- Diagrams