Highly recommended
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Unlike many of the new textbooks for GCSE Science, this one offers more than
just pretty pictures and basic text that barely covers the specification.
Instead the whole design is colourful, bright and replete with interesting
photographs and excellent diagrams. The content sticks closely to the
requirements of the specification and manages to keep a reader's interest by
stopping occasionally to make you think by way of "Have you ever wondered?"
questions, e.g. should we switch to nuclear power to combat global warming?
These sorts of questions are clearly included not to be answered, but to
stimulate debate in the classroom.
The CD (or ActiveBook) provides all of the double page spreads in a
searchable form, very useful for students and teachers alike.
The content covers the B2, C2 and P2 units of the Edexcel GCSE Science
specification, either forming the stand-along GCSE Additional Science
qualification (hence the book title, and the main demand of schools) or as
the second part of the three units needed for separate GCSE sciences. In
common with most modern textbooks, the questions on each of the pages can be
answered by reading the associated text carefully beforehand. Each chapter
finishes with a set of multiple-choice and short-answer questions which seem
accessible, interesting and occasionally challenging.
The book seems to be very well edited: I've only found one error in a
diagram and it doesn't prevent you from answering the associated question.
All in all this is a delightful book to use in or out of a classroom and it
will serve many thousands of students well for their forthcoming GCSE.
Hopefully it will also provoke many to continue studying Science to A-level
or beyond.
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