Oxford Insight Science Skills and activity books are designed to help students revise course material and explore opportunities for extension.

With an engaging design, full-colour photos and relevant scientific diagrams throughout, these write-in workbooks provide students with additional tools to develop their understanding of the key science skills.

Key features:

• Literacy builder activities develop students’ vocabulary, speaking, comprehension and writing skills
• Questioning and predicting activities develop the skills required to identify questions, make predictions and form hypotheses
• Planning investigations nurture understanding of identifying and controlling variables, fair tests, risk assessments, individual and collaborative work, lab settings, equipment and materials
• Conducting investigations activities develop students’ abilities to follow procedure, perform roles safely, record data accurately, assess the method and identify improvements
• Processing and analysing data and information tasks build students’ skills in summarising and organising data, extracting information from visual representations, performing simple calculations and proposing inferences based on data
• Problem solving activities coach students to suggest possible solutions, evaluate claims and solve inadequacies in data collection or analysis
• Communicating activities introduce students to writing scientifically, presenting results and information and using different formats to communicate
• Skills lab practical activities and investigations give students an opportunity to apply critical thinking, inquiry skills or design an experiment
• Handy hints provide tips on how to approach skills, remember key information and interpret data