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• one-to-one page match with the revision guide so students can find the practice they need quickly and easily
• guided practice questions on every page demonstrate good technique and build confidence
• loads of practice questions in the style of the new exams, with plenty of practice at problem-solving and reasoning skills
• hints and tips help students avoid common pitfalls
• full set of practice papers written to match the new specification exactly.

Part of a comprehensive range of learning and revision support available for Pearson Edexcel and AQA GCSEs from Pearson Revise including: Revision Guides, Revision Workbooks, Revision Cards, Practice Papers Plus and a free online learning portal.
Please note there is also a Revision Workbook for Catholic Christianity and Islam.

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• one-topic-per-page format helps you revise more quickly, without the hassle
• exam-style worked examples match the new specification and demonstrate good exam technique
• ‘Now try this’ exam-style practice questions let you test understanding of a topic
• problem solving support throughout including tricky questions on easy topics and strategies and techniques for answering harder questions.
• complete coverage of the new specification including brand-new topics.
• visual explanations of key concepts help you revise quickly and recall key skills in exams.

Part of a comprehensive range of learning and revision support available for Pearson Edexcel and AQA GCSEs from Pearson Revise including: Revision Guides, Revision Workbooks, Revision Cards, Practice Papers Plus all linked to a free online learning portal.
Please note there is also a Revision Guide for Catholic Christianity and Islam.

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Exam Board: AQA
Academic Level: GCSE
Subject: History: Conflict and tension in Asia, 1950-1975
First teaching: September 2016
First Exams: Summer 2018

Designed for hassle-free, independent study and priced to meet both your and your students’ budgets, this combined Revision Guide and Workbook is the smart choice for those revising for AQA GCSE (9-1) History and includes:

• A FREE online edition
• One-topic-per-page format
• ‘Now Try This’ practice questions on topic pages
• Exam skills pages including Worked examples with exemplar answers
• Exam-style practice pages with practice questions in the style of the exams
• Guided support and hints providing additional scaffolding, to help avoid common pitfalls
• Full set of practice papers written to match the specification exactly

Includes access to a FREE eBook version of your Revision Guide.

Revise anytime, anywhere with an eBook Revision Guide on the new Pearson Revise online revision platform. Includes free knowledge checks, quick quizzes and worked solution videos to help you focus your revision. Simply use the code on the inside cover of the book to access your online version. Available for core subjects including AQA and Pearson Edexcel maths, science, english and Pearson Edexcel history and business studies.

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A book full of practical tips, ideas and guidance for embedding high quality Music lessons into Primary Curriculum teaching. This book has been written specifically for teachers without a Musical background, however, teachers with musical training will also benefit from the array of ideas within. Lessons have been designed without the need for musical instruments to ensure that even the classrooms with minimal resources can still access the learning, even so, using the instruments available to you is highly encouraged.

Content can be extended and adapted easily to ensure a high quality music education that can last the academic year. Lesson ideas are scaffolded to suit every year group, ensuring that all students are challenged, or supported, throughout.

Suitable for new teachers & experienced teachers, non-musicians & musicians.

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‘This is a book that all teachers, not just biology teachers should read.’
—Ben Strathearn-Burrows, Head of Biology, Emanuel School

Introduction
I’ve been motivated to discover what biology is to us as humans. What it means to understand biology, and how I could make it meaningful for my students. I’ve read as much as I could and reflected, I’ve discussed and listened, I’ve taught and observed. This book is about sharing what I’ve learnt with my secondary-school mixed-attainment biology classes.

‘Not only is this book likely to change how you teach biology but also how you perceive yourself within the living world.’
—Dr Alex Sinclair, Institute of Education, St Mary’s University, Twickenham

What you’ll find inside:

• A vision for an integrated and meaningful biology education.
• A framework for teaching for meaning-making, which cuts planning time.
• Ways of creating a unified narrative across disparate topics.
• A taxonomy of understanding that unlocks problem-solving with minimal workload.
• Tried and tested examples from mixed-attainment biology classrooms.

Chapter 1: Meaningful biology relates principally to organisms:
This sets the scene for the whole book. It brings together many threads to define what I see as most meaningful to secondary biology students. And therefore what we could do about it when designing our lessons & curricula and thinking about how students progress through their biology education. Planning for meaning-making has vastly enhanced interest and motivation to learn in my classroom.

Chapters 2 & 3: Teaching for meaning using variation theory:
Next I introduce a powerful—relatively unknown and often misunderstood—pedagogical theory. Variation theory. In these chapters I set out to show how useful it is—and easy to use—in the secondary biology classroom, with many examples.

Chapter 4: How to integrate organisms, ecology & evolution:
Now I pull together the previous chapters to present a new framework for teaching for meaning-making that cuts planning time & focuses on biology.

‘An excellent text demanding we think not just about what we teach but also why and how.’
—Dr Paul Ganderton, Consultant and researcher

Chapter 5: Concepts of the organism that unite a biology course:
Here I discuss two concepts that I think can unify all the topics on the curriculum.
1. Seeing biology through thermodynamic systems lens and
2. Seeing biology through an ecological-evolutionary lens via the concept of life strategies. I lay out the reasons why and discuss how I’ve introduced these ideas with students.

Chapter 6: Teaching systems thinking to help students see interconnectedness:
I show how stock and flow diagrams are very useful for the biology classroom and give examples. Next, I introduce a new taxonomy of understanding biological systems that unlocks problem-solving in biology.

Chapter 7: Establishing a thinking classroom:
This chapter is focused on the whys and hows of embedding the taxonomy into biology curricula. I give examples of how I use it and examples of my students answers from lower and upper secondary courses.

Chapter 8: Navigating classroom and biological complexity:
This chapter rounds up the book by considering the complexity of our subject and the classroom.

‘Biology Made Real comes with an education health warning—be prepared to have your beliefs challenged.’
—Dr Alex Sinclair

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Reading and writing float on a sea of talk declared James Britton and yet in our current education system, where the pressure is on for students to pass written exams, it is all too easily left adrift. How then, as teachers and educators, can we turn the tide and harness the power of talk in our classrooms?

This is not just an educational choice but rather, given students vastly different experiences of language, a moral imperative.

Amy Gaunt and Alice Stott s must-read book serves as a detailed and engaging guide to get talking in class. It blends the academic research and evidence, with first-hand classroom experiences and practical strategies to enable you to unlock the power of oracy in your classroom and equip your students with the speaking skills they need to thrive in the twenty first century. 

Transform Teaching and Learning Through Talk describes how to: 

• Identify and teach good talk (and listening!)
• Build a classroom culture which values talk
• Create meaningful and authentic contexts for oracy
• Support your quietest students to speak up too!

This book is a rich resource for teachers, drawing upon key academic research and outlining what this could look like in your classroom. Throughout, the authors share personal insights, engaging anecdotes and tried-and-tested approaches drawn from their experience teaching in primary and secondary classrooms. Whether you teach college-age students or those just starting their journey through school, this book will challenge you to think deeply about what you can do integrate oracy into your practice.  

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– Newly revised to accompany the Pearson Edexcel specification for Global Politics, with updated case studies and recent developments from around the world
– Provides synoptic links within global politics, and across UK and political ideas topics
– Includes definitions of key terms and concepts throughout
– Includes quickfire knowledge-check questions and summaries of key content to help consolidate knowledge and understanding
– Features practice questions throughout, helping students improve their analysis and evaluation skills
– Provides answer guidance for exam-style questions online on the Hodder Education website.

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With over 100 pages of fun-filled puzzles, writing, matching, and colouring activities, this book was designed to engage and motivate young children to improve their reading skills and phonemic awareness. These activities will make learning a breeze and give your child a head start in school and life.

This book is designed to target and improve children’s phonemic awareness. Phonics is the relationship between letter names (graphemes) and letter sounds (phonemes). Different letter combinations make different sounds. By improving their phonemic awareness, a child’s reading skyrockets and they gain the ability to decode new words with confidence and ease.

Key Features:

• Over 100 pages of highly engaging phonics activities
• Phase 3 sounds
• Colouring
• Matching
• Puzzles
• Writing
• Specifically designed for ages 4-6
• Importantly, follows the National Curriculum

A good reading skill is the foundation for all future learning and success. Reading gaps prevent students from excelling across the school curriculum.

Don’t miss out on this enjoyable and necessary tool for your child to become a confident learner and master the art of reading! Get your hands on this book now and set your child up for the future.

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Following the success of our best seller “Tracing book for 3 year olds”, we would love to introduce our “Tracing book for 4-5 year olds” with cute little dinosaurs illustrations that make sure to engage your children with exciting learning and playing activities.

If your kids love tracing, this book is definitely a great gift for them. If your kids are interested in dinosaurs, this book is exactly what they want to have.

Our book comprises four parts of tracing and colouring:

• Tracing lines – the journey starts with simple steps of tracing basic lines and complication increases to gain control over their arm, hand and finger movements.
• Tracing letters – after your kids get familiar with lines and enhance their fine motor skills in the first part of the book, we move to tracing letter part, which help them recognize and learn writing the capital letters and lowercase letters.
• Tracing shapes and colouring – those pages have adorable dinosaurs pictures in black and white for tracing and colouring.
• Tracing numbers – this part provides opportunities to develop early Maths skills like recognising numbers and counting.

This book is a part of our series, “Preschool learning books”, each of which suits a particular age. Your kids deserve the most suitable books!

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Exam Board: Pearson BTEC
Academic Level: BTEC National
Subject: Sport

First teaching: September 2016
First Exams: Summer 2017

Ideal for classroom or independent study, this Revision Guide with ActiveBook is the smart choice for learners studying for the externally assessed Units 1 & 2 of the new BTEC Nationals in Sport qualifications.

• The Revision Guide is accompanied by an ActiveBook (eBook) so that learners have the choice and flexibility to access materials anytime or anywhere.
• The visually engaging format breaks the content down into easily-digestible sections for students and provides hassle-free instant-access revision for learners.
• Clear specification fit, with revision activities and annotated sample responses for each unit to show students how to tackle the assessed tasks.
• Written with students in mind – in an informal voice that talks directly to them.
• Designed to be used alongside the Workbook with clear unit-by-unit correspondence to make it easy to use the books together.

Updates to this title

If you purchased this title before 3rd April 2017, you will have an older edition. In light of updates to the qualification, there may be changes required to this older edition, which will be outlined at www.pearsonfe.co.uk/BTECchanges.

An updated edition of this title will release in time for the new academic year in September 2017. This new edition will reflect updates to the qualification that have been made.

If you have the older edition and would like a copy of the new edition, please contact our customer services team, with proof of purchase, on 0845 313 6666 or email customersolutions@pearson.com

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