A scaffolded approach to build science skills in students
Oxford Science Stages 4 and 5 offer complete coverage of the New South Wales Science 7–10 Syllabus with engaging, accessible content.
It emphasizes science skills and knowledge acquisition and provides comprehensive support for teachers, including lesson plans and live-lesson mode.
The platform's market-leading assessment, tracking, and reporting tools save teachers time and provide valuable insights into student progress.
With accessible and high-quality, trusted content delivered on our new platform, this series is an essential resource for junior Science education in New South Wales, ensuring success for both students and teachers.
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Why choose Oxford?
Oxford Science for Stages 4 and 5 is a comprehensive and accessible educational resource designed for the New South Wales Science 7–10 Syllabus.
Complete and comprehensive coverage of the new curriculum
Our series has been carefully revised and updated to align with the updated New South Wales Science 7–10 Syllabus, with key learning design principles incorporated to increase student engagement and deliver improved teaching and learning outcomes.
A new digital experience on the refreshed Oxford Digital
A new in-built feature on Oxford Digital, live-lesson mode allows teachers to digitally connect to students in real time to deliver customisable lessons using our lesson plans as a starting point, with quick access to resources and plans from within the platform.
Key content videos designed with Clickview to engage students and support learning
Oxford Science provides bespoke, curriculum-aligned, key content videos that support the acquisition of knowledge and revision, as well as providing opportunities for flexible instruction – in class, online or flipped.
Develop science skills for HSC success from day one
Oxford Insight Science for NSW 2E provides a clear pathway to Stage 6 success with an explicit focus on scientific skill development. All tasks and activities are skill focused and framed using NESA keywords, aligning the series with the requirements of the new Senior Science syllabi.
New stage-based resources
The series provides a scaffolded approach to skill development across two stage-based volumes, providing excellent value while introducing students to the structure of the HSC and giving teachers the flexibility to teach the syllabus in the order that best suits their class.
Comprehensive support
Key investigations are supported by targeted instructional videos. These videos can be used by schools requiring additional resources to perform experiments and also help support students who miss experiment days. Low-tech practicals are included to support classes without lab access.
Key features of the Student books
Oxford Insight Science for NSW 2E Student books feature a simple, engaging design with targeted on-page features that support student understanding and progression.
Each Student book:
Provides tasks and activities that are explicitly skill focused and framed using NESA keywords, aligning the series with the new Senior Science syllabi.
Features a Working scientifically chapter to teach and clarify key science skills throughout each Stage.
Provides margin glossary definitions for clarification of key terms at the point of learning.
Supports differentiation through Skill builder questions that are scaffolded to target key science skills from the syllabus.
Offers Check your learning questions to review student progress and provide opportunities for extension.
Includes NSW-specific case studies to encourage the real world application of key concepts and skills.
Presents key subject matter using clear, accessible, instructional language and engaging visuals.
Contains a student research project chapter to provide guidance and support throughout the research project.
Oxford Insight Science for NSW 2E offers comprehensive digital support for students and teachers, including Quizlet quizzes, worksheets, sample data and experiments with supporting videos.
Market-leading digital assessment features include auto-marked quizzes, differentiated activities and advanced tracking and reporting tools (including sophisticated Markbook functionality).
Resources for students
Students receive:
- a complete digital version of the Student book with note-taking and bookmarking functionality
- targeted instructional videos for key investigations
- low-tech practicals to support classes without lab access
- engaging worksheets for every chapter, designed to consolidate and extend understanding on key points from the syllabus
- interactive activities to consolidate student understanding of key content
- chapter revision worksheets to further consolidate understanding
- auto-marking multiple-choice quizzes
- free Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary look-up feature
- weblinks
- flashcard glossaries.
Resources for teachers
In addition to the student resources, each Teacher obook offers:
- detailed course planners, teaching programs and lesson plans
- answers for every question in the Student book
- write-in worksheets, risk assessments and lab tech notes for every investigation
- differentiated checkpoint worksheets to suit different abilities and learning styles
- printable (and editable) class tests with answers for every chapter.
With Teacher obook assess, teachers can also set up classes, assign work, monitor student progress and graph results.
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