New Science in Everyday Life- Revised Edition Coursebook 7

Features

• Comprehensive Learning Tools to help students quickly grasp and retain key concepts.
• Fact File - Interesting concept-related snippets
• Get It Right - Alerts to commonly held misconceptions
• Word Help - Meanings of difficult words
• Keywords - Definitions of important scientific terms
• Summary - Quick recap of the chapter
• Visual dictionary - Selective terms and their meanings supported by pictures
• Oxford Areal (for Classes 6 to 8): An app that makes your textbook comes alive! Images in the textbook that have multimedia content accessible through Areal are identified with Oxford Areal icon.
• Continuous Assessment Tools to monitor learners’ learning progress.
• Chapter-opening illustrations as interactive warm-ups
• Let’s Remember - Questions after every major topic, oral questions included
• Let’s Create - Suggestions for projects and activities
• Worksheet Life skills and Problem Solving Assessment (PSA) worksheets at the end of every unit
• Comprehensive Assessment Tools to help evaluate learners’ depth of learning through a comprehensive pool of testing modes grouped under Exercises at the end of every chapter, Unit Test papers at the end of every unit, and Test Papers at the end of the book.
• Exercises are designed to develop a wide range of scientific skills through a variety of questions graded under appropriate headers:
  • Let’s Understand - A variety of direct questions
  • Let’s Recall - Concept maps to complete
  • Let’s Evaluate - Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) questions
  • Let’s Discuss - Probing questions for discussion
  • Let’s Observe - Drawing and picture-based exercises
  • Unit Test Papers - A new set of summative assessment test paper for each unit
  • Test Papers - Two formative (short paper-pencil tests) and one summative assessment test papers for each term
  • Fun Time - A puzzle page to make learning fun, and Everyday Science: How Things Work, as cover-extended leaflet, which helps learners understand the science behind everyday things.
  • Environment Tools aim to spread awareness on the environment through: An environment-focused educational story in comic book format
• Green corner - Practical tips and interesting snippets on environment-related topics