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The Science Lesson Box whiteboard teaching package includes:
Each presentation is broken into lesson size units. When you click on the button on the opening page you go directly to your chosen unit. The units and specific content for each presentation are:
1. A set of PowerPoint based presentations covering all lesson topics shown below. Perfect for introducing the core content and for revision. Includes unique Lesson Box features to create a lesson to suit each class. Activity buttons reveal starter tasks, discussion points, unit recap, class activities and extension tasks. All content can be changed live without closing the presentation. Select talking avatars to give extra information and generate discussion. Keyword definitions revealed and linked to printable vocabulary worksheets. Store your lesson plans within the presentation.
 2. A linked set of Revise and Test presentations to reinforce and assess learning that now include: A narrated video summary of each topic to use prior to the test. PowerPoint based formal tests with printable question and answer sheets. Change and save to match each teaching group or student.
3. A fully licenced network or VLE version of both the above products. Perfect for anywhere learning even on mobile devices.
 plus flash tutorials, full support, full site licence. All elements can be customised (even the avatar input)


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The Content of the Science Products.
Each presentation is broken into lesson size units. When you click on the button on the opening page you go directly to your chosen unit. The units and specific content for each presentation are:

1. Plants & Plant Growth
The units are: Structure, Fertilization, Dispersal and Growth. 
These units cover the structure of flowering plants, the flower, the functions of a flower, fertilization, pollen, pollination, dispersal of seeds and fruit e.g. wind, animal and explosive, making food, photosynthesis, the leaf structure and what happens in respiration. All illustrated with bold images and photos.
2. Variation & Classification
The units are: Variation, Classification, Chains & Webs and Habitats. These units include what is variation? how does inherited variation work?, genes and chromosomes, inherited variation at work, selective breeding, natural selection, environmental variation, discontinuous variation, continuous variation, classification, population, food chains, food webs, animated example of a web of an oak tree, food pyramids, human impact, habitat and adaptation, climates including examples of the Arctic and tropical rainforest. Use bold diagrams and photos with animated sequences to help explanations.
3. Cells
The units are: What are cells? Plant cells, and specialist cells. These units include an introduction to cells what they are, what they do and how they are organised in relation to a flowering plant, what cells look like, other features of plant cells, specialist cells, cells and fusion. Uses clear and bold images and photographs.
4. Human Reproduction
The units are: Reproduction, Pregnancy, Birth and Nature Nurture. The units include puberty, the human reproductive system in males and females, becoming pregnant, the menstrual cycle and fertility, the 40 weeks of pregnancy, how he baby grows and develops, how the baby is nourished and breathes in the womb, giving birth, genetics, and nature nurture.
5. Nutrition and Digestion
The units are: Digestion and Nutrition. These units cover digestion stages including our teeth, enzymes, the stomach, absorption and the intestines, what food consists of, what do nutrients do, growth and energy, a balanced diet, foods and health and chemical tests on foods.
6. Breathing
The units are: Respiratory, Cardiovascular, Blood and Heart Disease. The units include what happens when we breathe, what the respiratory system is, what happens to the air you breathe, how we breathe, how oxygen is absorbed, what is in our breath, respiration, the cardiovascular system what it is and what it does, the heart and the structure of the heart showing blood flow, circulation, the components of blood and heart disease. Use clear bold diagrams with animation throughout to help explain processes.
7. Movement
The units are: Skeleton, Joints, Muscles and Movement. These units include how we move, why we have a skeleton, what our skeleton is like, making it move, joints including synovial ,hinge condyloid saddle, pivot and gliding, what muscles are, the main muscle groups, how muscles produce movement with examples, levers and the part of your senses.
8. Geological Change
The units are: The Nature of Rocks, Mountain Building, Erosion and Weathering and Change. These units include the rock cycle, the structure of the Earth, types of rocks i.e. sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic and how they are formed, plate tectonics, the mechanics of fold mountains, erosion and weathering including physical and chemical e.g. freeze thaw and exfoliation, agents of erosion including wave power and glaciers, deposition and its part in forming new rock, runoff and rivers in relation to the move of sediment.
9. Earth in Space
The units are: Our World, The Solar System, The Sky We See and Satellites. These units include the rotating world, what causes the seasons and why is summer warm with animated diagrams to help explain
, gravity, the solar system with a slide outlining the main facts about each of the moon, the sun and each planet, and also the asteroids the galaxy, the milky way, and comets all illustrated with bold images. why stars move across the sky and the stars of the northern sky rotate around the pole star with animation to help the explanation, artificial satellites and examples of the views they give us from space.