Cambridge Science for the NSW Syllabus - Stage 5 (2nd Edition): Print & Digital

Part of the series Cambridge Science for the NSW Syllabus - 2nd Edition.

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Cambridge Science for NSW Stages 4&5 Second Edition includes an online version of the student book that delivers a host of interactive features to enhance the teaching and learning experience. The Interactive Textbook is available as a two-calendar-year subscription. Your subscription term is defined as follows: if activation occurs between January and July of this year, subscription concludes on 31 December in the following year. If activation occurs between August and December of this year, subscription concludes on 31 December in the year after the following. Digital resources are expressly available for personal use only.

• Explicitly aligned to the new syllabus, each chapter covers 1-2 focus area dot points to give teachers confidence they are covering the requirements
• NEW content covering topics such as sustainability and recycling, climate change, pandemics and disease control, and HeLa stem cell ethics, helps students align science theory with real-world needs and challenges.
• The Depth Study guide also includes examples of different depth study formats and structures are also included along with a checklist and template.
• The extensively revised Working Scientifically chapter in each book incorporates Nature of Science and Practice of Science content and outcomes, as well as NEW pseudoscience content in Science Communication to help students build skills in evaluating sources and drawing conclusions as they undertake tasks and assessments.
• The NEW data science requirements are clearly signposted throughout, with data questions at the end of each chapter to help students apply their understanding and challenge them to analyse and interpret different forms of scientific data.
• All practicals are carefully scaffolded to guide students from fundamental to more advanced skills and cover at least two of the Working Scientifically syllabus outcomes.
• Explore! activities include new secondary-source investigations that ask students to discover, examine and use secondary data and information. These investigations are integrated throughout the text to help students develop their analysis skills.
• Investigations are embedded throughout the content to provide plenty of opportunities for students to engage with real-world science and digital technologies, and to apply and develop the practical and scientific reporting skills that are essential for success in Stage 6 sciences.
• NEW narrated practical videos walk students through experiment set-up and execution and can be used by remote or absent students, or to familiarise themselves with the techniques and processes before attempting the practical in class. Videos are indicated by an icon in the print book.
• A wide range of other hands-on practical activities, including teacher demonstrations, student-designed experiments, and authentic STEM activities are integrated throughout each chapter to help students relate the topic content to the experiment or activity.

Authors

• Gemma Dale

  Gemma is a senior biology teacher at a Brisbane school who has also taught chemistry and physics in the UK. She has a tertiary background in ecology and a Masters of Science in Biodiversity and Conservation. She has worked with the Department of Environment and Heritage in Australia as a bat and gecko ecologist. She has also completed an Education Doctorate (EdD) specialising in scientific literacy.

• Rachel Horton

  Dr Rachel Horton is a secondary Science and senior Chemistry and Physics teacher, having taught in Queensland, Victoria and most recently New South Wales. She also has a tertiary background in Microbiology and Infectious disease research, with a range of peer reviewed publications from her work at Universities in England, Canada and Australia.

• Suzanne Wilson

  Suzanne Wilson’s journey in science education has focussed on engaging students to think critically and creatively about the world around them, inspiring curiosity and future-focused problem solving. Teaching science to students at all levels, she specialises in Physics, Science Extension and Earth and Environmental science. She has taught at public and independent schools, co-ed and single-sex schools, teaching both the HSC and IB curriculums.