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Comprehension and additional task exercises pages 24 and 25 from Next Page Science. Suitable for 6th to 9th grade US. Accompanying PowerPoint, word searches and answers available for free from www.nextpagescience.com. This exercise covers: • Aerobic Respiration as the chemical reaction by which cells release energy using oxygen • Its similarity to burning • Anaerobic respiration and why it is sometimes required • Muscle burn through lactic acid production • Fermentation (brewing) and baking (p

Comprehension and additional task exercises pages 56 and 57 from Next Page Science. Suitable for 6th to 9th grade US. Accompanying PowerPoint, word searches and answers available for free from www.nextpagescience.com. This exercise covers: • John Dalton as the scientist who developed the idea of atoms • Definition of an element, compound and molecule • Pictorial examples of elements, compounds and molecules • An exercise recognising the differences between compounds and elements • Amazing WHAT

Comprehension and additional task exercises pages 6 and 7 from Next Page Science. Suitable for 6th to 9th grade US. Accompanying PowerPoint, word searches and answers available for free from www.nextpagescience.com. This exercise covers: • Differences between plant and animal cells • Organelles and their functions • Labelling diagrams of cells • Specialised cells and their functions • Levels of organisation (organ, organs systems etc)

Comprehension and additional task exercises pages 132 and 133 from Next Page Science. Suitable for 6th to 9th grade US. Accompanying PowerPoint, word searches and answers available for free from www.nextpagescience.com. This exercise covers: • What heat energy is • Heat flow always being from hot to cold. Getting into a hot and cold bath as an example • What temperature tells us • How a ‘traditional’ thermometer works and other ways of measuring temperature • Internal energy as the attraction

Comprehension and additional task exercises pages 92 and 93 from Next Page Science. Suitable for 6th to 9th grade US. Accompanying PowerPoint, word searches and answers available for free from www.nextpagescience.com. This exercise covers: • The position of metals and non-metals on the periodic table • The properties of metals to include: conductors, strong, shiny, sonorous, dense, high melting points, magnetic metals (Fe, Ni, Co), ductile, malleable and ability to make alloys • The properties

Comprehension and additional task exercises pages 192 and 193 from Next Page Science. Suitable for 6th to 9th grade US. Accompanying PowerPoint, word searches and answers available for free from www.nextpagescience.com. This exercise covers: • What the solar system is and that ours is one of many • A pictorial of the solar system • A mnemonic for remembering the order of the planets • What a satellite is: the moon is our natural satellite and man-made satellites are used for communication, rem

Comprehension and additional task exercises pages 88 and 89 from Next Page Science. Suitable for 6th to 9th grade US. Accompanying PowerPoint, word searches and answers available for free from www.nextpagescience.com. This exercise covers: • The difference between endothermic and exothermic reactions • A pictorial aid for understanding exothermic and endothermic • Simple energy level diagrams as a way of representing the reactions in terms of changes in chemical energy • Examples of endothermi

Comprehension and additional task exercises pages 144 and 145 from Next Page Science. Suitable for 6th to 9th grade US. Accompanying PowerPoint, word searches and answers available for free from www.nextpagescience.com. This exercise covers: • What contact and non-contact forces are • Examples of contact forces to include: the reaction force, upthrust, friction, air resistance and tension • A graph plotting exercise investigating how friction changes with weight • A discussion of the three non

Comprehension and additional task exercises pages 142 and 143 from Next Page Science. Suitable for 6th to 9th grade US. Accompanying PowerPoint, word searches and answers available for free from www.nextpagescience.com. This exercise covers: • What contact and non-contact forces are • Examples of contact forces to include: the reaction force, upthrust, friction, air resistance and tension • A graph plotting exercise investigating how friction changes with weight • A discussion of the three non

Comprehension and additional task exercises pages 108 and 109 from Next Page Science. Suitable for 6th to 9th grade US. Accompanying PowerPoint, word searches and answers available for free from www.nextpagescience.com. This exercise covers: • The earth’s atmosphere as the gases that surround the earth: 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen • Population rise and consumption of fossils fuels causing climate change • Carbon dioxide and methane as greenhouse gases • An explanation of the greenhouse effect

Comprehension and additional task exercises pages 54 and 55 from Next Page Science. Suitable for 6th to 9th grade US. Accompanying PowerPoint, word searches and answers available for free from www.nextpagescience.com. This exercise covers: • The Greeks having first presented the idea that all substances are made from particles • The differences between solids, liquids and gases in terms of particle spacing and forces of attraction (bonding) • The different properties of solids, liquids and gas

Comprehension and additional task exercises pages 186 and 187 from Next Page Science. Suitable for 6th to 9th grade US. Accompanying PowerPoint, word searches and answers available for free from www.nextpagescience.com. This exercise covers: • The three magnetic metals: iron, nickel, and cobalt • The shape of a magnetic field around a bar magnet and how to plot it using a compass • Cutting magnets in half and the resulting magnets produced • Attraction and repulsion and the shape of the magnet

Comprehension and additional task exercises pages 102 and 103 from Next Page Science. Suitable for 6th to 9th grade US. Accompanying PowerPoint, word searches and answers available for free from www.nextpagescience.com. This exercise covers: • The structure of the earth: crust, mantle, outer liquid core and inner solid core with a pictorial aid • The difference is density, temperature and size of the four layers • Earthquakes and use of seismometers • Earth began as one supercontinent (Pangaea

Comprehension and additional task exercises pages 100 and 101 from Next Page Science. Suitable for 6th to 9th grade US. Accompanying PowerPoint, word searches and answers available for free from www.nextpagescience.com. This exercise covers: • Polymers as man-made materials made from many monomers linked together: polyethene, PVC, PTFE and their uses • Composite materials being made of several parts: mortar, concrete, MDF, carbon fibre and their uses • Ceramics as materials made by baking subs

Comprehension and additional task exercises pages 184 and 185 from Next Page Science. Suitable for 6th to 9th grade US. Accompanying PowerPoint, word searches and answers available for free from www.nextpagescience.com. This exercise covers: • It is only the electrons that can move between objects and this effect can be increase using friction • Objects that gain electrons become negative and objects that lose electrons become positive • A step-by-step description of picking up a piece of pape

Comprehension and additional task exercises pages 98 and 99 from Next Page Science. Suitable for 6th to 9th grade US. Accompanying PowerPoint, word searches and answers available for free from www.nextpagescience.com. This exercise covers: • What an ore is • That metals can be extracted from ores using electricity (expensive) or displacement using carbon (cheaper) • The reactivity series as to why carbon can be used to displace metals from their ores if they are lower than carbon in the series

Comprehension and additional task exercises pages 34 and 35 from Next Page Science. Suitable for 6th to 9th grade US. Accompanying PowerPoint, word searches and answers available for free from www.nextpagescience.com. This exercise covers: • The parts of a flower with a labelling exercise • Pollination, fertilisation and seed production • The four main methods of seed dispersal • Germination • An exercise considering which seeds are most likely to grow and why • An exercise on sequencing polli

Comprehension and additional task exercises pages 32 and 33 from Next Page Science. Suitable for 6th to 9th grade US. Accompanying PowerPoint, word searches and answers available for free from www.nextpagescience.com. This exercise covers: • The difference between medicines and recreational drugs • Examples of medicines include: pain relief, anaesthetics, chemotherapy and antibiotics • The concept of side effects • Differences between a depressant and a stimulant: alcohol, heroin, caffeine, ni

Comprehension and additional task exercises pages 162 and 163 from Next Page Science. Suitable for 6th to 9th grade US. Accompanying PowerPoint, word searches and answers available for free from www.nextpagescience.com. This exercise covers: • The properties of waves (what they do): oscillations that transfer energy, reflect refract and interfere • The difference between transverse and longitudinal waves • Amplitude and wavelength as measured from a transverse wave and a description of frequen

Comprehension and additional task exercises pages 114 and 115 from Next Page Science. Suitable for 6th to 9th grade US. Accompanying PowerPoint, word searches and answers available for free from www.nextpagescience.com. This exercise covers: • Power ratings and what they tell us • Using the equation energy = power x time to calculate energy used in kWh • Examples calculations for a kettle and a TV • An example electricity bill used to show quarterly calculations and the cost of energy consumed