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An active learning experience
NaturalSciences
ALL LEVELS NOW AVAILABLE
*Accessible via the Digital Class Book
Think ➜ Do ➜ Learn: an active methodology
•Develop students’ thinking skills effectively by actively involving them in their learning process,
stimulating their curiosity and encouraging them to learn through doing.
•Give students a reason to engage with the subject content with opening activities, fun facts and
quests.
•A hands-on approach that makes learning meaningful and active. Students learn through doing a
wide variety of tasks.
•Critical thinking skills are promoted from the very beginning and keep students motivated.
Students learn and acquire scientific skills together•Hands-on experiments consolidate students’ understanding of scientific
concepts and help them develop key scientific enquiry skills such as asking questions, predicting, planning and analysing results.
•Exciting videos of all the experiments provide a clear step-by-step explanation of how to carry out each experiment. Use them as a powerful presentation tool to prepare students for the experiments or simply to save valuable classroom time.
•Group-work activities in every unit promote oral communication and collaborative learning.
Science and English naturally combined•Think Do Learn’s team of authors know what
really works in the classroom. They combine expertise both in teaching Sciences in English and in English language teaching.
•Careful grading of language makes it easier for students to understand and learn new content.
•Links between Natural Sciences and Arts and Crafts through an integrated cross-curricular approach will enable students to build on their prior knowledge.
An active learning experience
Create your own project!
Personalizing your project has never been easier• Enjoy maximum flexibility and personalize your project: a modular offer is available for each curricular
content block that will enable you to mix and match as you wish.
• Each module is available separately, both in printed and digital format.
• Introduction to scientific enquiry, the first curricular content block, is integrated throughout all the modules as a key part of the Think Do Learn methodology.
* AMBER EDITIONS: these editions are specific to certain Comunidades Autónomas only, depending on their regional curriculum.
Read on and discover all there is to know about Think Do Learn
Natural Sciences
Module 0 Module 1 Module 2 Module 3 Module 4
PRIMARY 1 Our bodies and health Living things
Matter and energy*
Technology: objects and machines*
PRIMARY 2 Our bodies and health Living things
Matter and energy
Technology: objects and machines
PRIMARY 3 Living things Our bodies and health
Matter and energy
Technology: objects and machines
PRIMARY 4 Living things Our bodies and health
Matter and energy
Technology: objects and machines
PRIMARY 5 Our bodies and health* Living things Matter and
energyTechnology: objects and machines
PRIMARY 6 Living things* Our bodies and health
Matter and energy
Technology: objects and machines
For students: Class Book with Story Book and Songs and Story CD (levels 1–2)
Plus Zone: includes fun games, audio files for all the Class Book texts, karaoke versions of the songs and presentations!
Activity Book
Class Book with Songs CD (levels 3–4) Class Book (levels 5–6)
(levels 3–6)NEW! ALL LEVELS
AVAILABLE
All levels
• Experiment time! videos
• Karaoke versions of the songs
• Digital stories with audio and activities (levels 1–2)
• PowerPoint presentations (in Spanish* and English)
• Animations
• Digital flashcards and posters
• Interactive activities
• Talking Book
• Web or video links
• Tests A and B
• Material lists
• Letters to parents
• Unit programmes
• Extra editable worksheets: one per content lesson
• Editable revision worksheets
• Editable support worksheets for adaptaciones curriculares (levels 3–6)
• Editable extension worksheets (levels 3–6)
• Printable templates for Let’s work together!, Experiment time! and Make your own dictionary! lessons
• Printable templates for Make your own poster! (levels 1–4)
• The IWB Class Book also includes a toolkit for use on the IWB.
*Available only in Oxford Premium.
IWB Class Book
For teachers: Class CD with songs and stories
Teacher’s Book
Flashcards (levels 1–2)
Try out the demo and learn more about the digital materials for teachers at the end of the leaflet!
IWB Activity Book (levels 3–6)
1PRIMARY
Class Book
FUN AND VIBRANT CHARACTERS
Meet Ben, Amy and Coco: these colourful characters will accompany students throughout the project, both in the Class Book and in the stories.
CLEAR PRESENTATION - ThinkAn illustration at the beginning of every unit encourages students to interact with the characters and subject matter.
The active listening activity presents content and gives students a reason to interact with the illustration in a motivating way, activating their previous knowledge and generating curiosity.
Curricular content blocks are colour-coded, making them easy to indentify.
Ben
Amy
Coco
Flashcards
Interactive activityWeb link
What’s this? - ThinkA fun vocabulary feature where students have to identify a semi-hidden object that anticipates content to come in the following lesson.
CONTENT PAGES - Do & LearnStudents learn content through doing a variety of different activities, including a wealth of active listening tasks.
Fun stickers help students visualize and remember content.
Stickers
Flashcards
Interactive activityWeb link
1PRIMARY
Class Book
CATCHY SONGS AND CHANTS throughout the unit add a motivating element that is sure to make students interact with the content.
Discover how much students have enjoyed the activities with this captivating star-rating feature.
tasks in the first levels include fun, physical activities that will help students consolidate concepts.
Karaoke version of the songExtra worksheets
Interactive activitiesFlashcards
Web links
Use the flashcards to introduce new vocabulary and enhance your lesson with
the extra resources provided!
Digital story with audio and activities
Extra worksheetsInteractive activities
Web links
A story for each unit with Ben, Amy and Coco as the main characters. The stories are linked to specific topics in each unit, bringing them to life while capturing students’ attention and introducing variety.
Learn - A short text at the end of each topic summarizes the concepts and language.
Digital story with audio and activities
Extra worksheetsInteractive activities
Web links
Enhance your lesson with the extra resources provided!
Group-work activities in every unit promote collaborative learning and oral communication.
Real photos of Spanish primary students illustrate each step of the process and support students’ understanding.
Extra worksheetAnimation
Template: Make your own poster!
Web links
Complement your lesson with the extra resources provided!
Experiment video
Template: Make your own dictionary!
Revision worksheet
1PRIMARY
Class Book1
FANTASTIC, EASY-TO-DO EXPERIMENTS!
Reinforce content and language while promoting scientific methodology with simple experiments that cater for all kinds of different learning styles.
Original videos of all the experiments, presented in a captivating TV programme format that is sure to attract students’ attention.
Use them as a powerful presentation tool or simply to save valuable classroom time!
Experiment video
Template: Make your own dictionary!
Revision worksheet
Enhance Experiment time! with the extra resources provided!
1PRIMARY
Class Book
Revision activities at the end of each unit help students consolidate learning by taking a look back at what they have learnt.
Self-evaluation in the My progress section keeps students in touch with their learning process and promotes autonomous learning.
PowerPoint presentation
Tests A and B
Reinforce content and check understanding with these tests.
The Activity Book reinforces content and
language seen in the Class
Book units through a range
of different activities in appealing formats.
NEW!
Unit stickers are provided at the back of the module.
A clear picture dictionary in the My dictionary section at the end of the module includes all the key vocabulary.
1PRIMARY
Class Book
My Big Project allows students to work on the content covered in each module in a more individualized way, bringing what they have learnt closer to them by applying their knowledge to their life and experience!
The Super Scientist Award is a fun and motivating resource that is sure to encourage students to complete the project and put a smile on their faces.
1PRIMARY
Story Book
Ben, Amy and Coco, who are the main characters of the stories, appear in every unit of the Class Book, providing students with an appealing link to the content.
Enjoy a colourful story linked to the unit that reinforces both content and language.
Digital story with audio and interactive
activities
Use the interactive version with integrated audio to bring the stories to life in the classroom.
Digital story with audio and interactive
activities
3PRIMARY
Class Book
CLEAR AND DYNAMIC PRESENTATION - Think & Do!An illustration or a photo collage at the beginning of every unit, with accompanying activities, encourages students to interact with the subject matter and generates curiosity.
Simple pair-work activities, with language support, get students communicating with each other about the topic from the very start!
Interactive activity
Web links
Enhance the topic presentation with the extra resources provided!
Working with the image in a lively way will capture students’ interest, activate their prior knowledge and make them want to learn more about the topic.
A listening activity about curious facts on the subject motivates students and fosters curiosity.
Active and hands-on activities engage students and put them at the centre of their learning process.
Thin k!
3PRIMARY
Class Book
A very special scientist, whom students can name as they wish, will ask a question to initiate class discussion on the topic and stir curiosity.
The READ & ThINk or LOOk & Th INk activities motivate students to look at content by giving them a task.
Activities at the end of each lesson always include at least one listening task and build up from comprehension to more practical hands-on and critical thinking activities.
Students learn content through doing and discussing.
1 2
3
Karaoke version of the song
Interactive activitiesExtra worksheets
Support worksheetsWeb links
Use all the extra resources at your disposal to enhance your lessons!
Colour-coded curricular content blocks make them easy to identify.
An audio (also available online) is included at the end of each topic, for students to check their learning.
Scaffolding helps students with the more demanding activities, ensuring they have all the support they need in order to produce language and communicate concepts in English.
Q u ZI
These curious questions will spark students’ interest. The answers are hidden within the unit.
SCI-QUEST
3PRIMARY
Class Book
Group-work activities in every unit promote collaborative learning and oral communication.
Real photos of Spanish primary students illustrate each step of the process and support students’ understanding.
Digital flashcardsAnimation
Extension worksheetTemplate:
Let’s work together!Template:
Make your own poster!
Complement your lesson with the extra resources provided!
Language support helps students to communicate their results in English.
Experiment videoDigital flashcards
Revision worksheetTemplate:
Experiment time!Template:
Make your own dictionary!
ENGAGING, EASY-TO-DO EXPERIMENTS!
Reinforce content and language while promoting scientific methodology with simple experiments that cater for all kinds of different learning styles.
Experiment videoDigital flashcards
Revision worksheetTemplate:
Experiment time!Template:
Make your own dictionary!
Original videos of all the experiments, presented in a captivating TV programme format that is sure to attract students’ attention.
Use them as a powerful presentation tool or simply to save valuable classroom time!
Enhance Experiment time! with the extra resources provided!
3PRIMARY
Class Book
Revision activities at the end of each unit help students consolidate learning.
The activities build up from multiple choice exercises to more demanding activities.
Mind maps and concept maps: a variety of different concept maps that children will progressively learn to do themselves.
Students will acquire the necessary skills to create their own summary diagrams autonomously. In the first unit they are asked to fill in the example provided. Throughout subsequent units they are gradually shown how to create their own diagrams.
PowerPoint presentation
Tests A and B
Self-evaluation in the My progress section keeps students in touch with their learning process and promotes autonomous learning.
Use all the extra resources at your disposal to complement the lesson and
check understanding!
This final activity at the end of every unit helps foster positive learning habits and strengthens vocabulary assimilation.
A clear picture dictionary at the end of the module includes all the key vocabulary.
3PRIMARY
Activity Book
The Activity Book reinforces content and language seen through the Class Book units and further develops students’ writing skills.
A range of different activities in appealing formats keep students motivated and engaged.
Language support throughout helps students with the more demanding production activities, while the activity fosters critical thinking, thus consolidating knowledge.
Thin k!
5PRIMARY
Class Book
POWERFuL IMAGES GRASP STUDENTS’ ATTENTION WHILE THE TEXT-BASED ACTIVITIES ENGAGE ThEM FuRThER IN ThE TOPIC - Think & Do!Getting Started: a section which stimulates students to see what they already know about the subject while they work with the introductory text. The variety of activities (read, listen, think and do) gets them further involved and communicating from the very beginning!
Interesting facts that are sure to capture students’ interest throughout the units!
In levels 5 and 6, there is always a activity to get students to think of what they already know on the subject and what they’d like to find out.
Thin k! SCI-FACT
Interactive activities
AudioWeb links
Enhance the topic presentation with the extra resources provided!
1Lessons start off with a brief introduction to the subject that helps students remember what they have previously seen and focus on the topic.
Getting Started: a pre-reading activity for students to interact with the content. A question or an active activity that prompts students to look at content and communicate with each other.
2
Activities at the end of each lesson: from low-order thinking skills to high-order thinking skills. Students gradually arrive at the more demanding productive activities with all the practice and support they need to carry them out.
3
Students learn content through doing a variety of activities.
5PRIMARY
Class Book
Colour-coded curricular content blocks make them easy to identify.
Every lesson also includes either a written or an oral communication activity.
An audio is included at the end of each lesson for students to check their learning in a motivating way.
AudioExtra worksheets
Support worksheets Interactive activities
Web links
Use all the extra resources at your disposal to enhance your lessons!
All the language support students need to carry out the productive activities, with clear scaffolding throughout.
Listening activities require students to actively participate and respond to content.
Hands-on, activities and activities to get students actively involved with the topic.
Thin k!
5PRIMARY
Class Book
Language support helps students to communicate effectively in English.
Group-work activities in every unit promote collaborative learning and oral communication.
Digital flashcards Animation
Extension worksheet
Template: Let’s work together!
Complement your lesson with the extra resources provided!
Experiment video Digital flashcards
Revision worksheet
Template: Make your own dictionary!
MOTIVATING, EASY-TO-DO EXPERIMENTS!
Reinforce content and language, while promoting scientific methodology with simple experiments that cater for all kinds of different learning styles.
Experiment video Digital flashcards
Revision worksheet
Template: Make your own dictionary!
Enhance Experiment time! with the extra resources provided!
Original videos of all the experiments, presented in a captivating TV programme format that is sure to attract students’ attention.
Use them as a powerful presentation tool or simply to save valuable classroom time!
5PRIMARY
Class Book
Throughout the year, students will acquire the necessary skills to be able to create their own summary diagrams autonomously — a key study skill.
Self-evaluation in the My progress section keeps students in touch with their learning process and promotes autonomous learning.
AudioTests A and B
PowerPoint
presentation
A Glossary at the end of the module includes all the key vocabulary.
Use all the extra resources at your disposal to complement the lesson and
check understanding!
Students reflect on what they have learnt at the end of each unit by looking back at the first activity they did at the start of the unit, thus consolidating their knowledge.
Thin k!
5PRIMARY
Activity Book
The Activity Book reinforces content and language seen in the Class Book units and further develops students’ writing skills.
Language support throughout helps students with the more demanding productive activities and similar illustrations to those in the Class Book help students to identify the subject matter.
PRIMARY
Teacher’s Book
Complete unit presentation including:
•Contents
•Learning outcomes
•Assessment criteria
A unit map clearly illustrates when to use all the resources available (both print and digital) with each lesson, so that you know exactly how to make the most of each lesson!
All levels
LEVEL 5
Each lesson includes:
•A reproduction of the corresponding Class Book page.
•Content objectives, vocabulary and structures seen in each lesson and the materials available for use.
•A step-by-step guide to all the activities and their answers.
•The audio transcripts.
•Extra ideas and additional material associated with the lesson.
LEVEL 3
LEVEL 5
LEVEL 1
PRIMARY
All levels
Student’s Plus Zone
Get your students to benefit from the Plus Zone, their digital resource pack, where they will find:
Materials to use with computers or tablets.
Simple presentations that will help students review the key concepts, structures and language from each unit.
Talking Book: students will find audio files provided for all the Class Book text, for them to listen to whenever they need to!
The Let’s play! section includes fun interactive activities students will enjoy while they learn!
LEVEL 1
LEVEL 3
LEVEL 5
LEVEL 5
LEVEL 3
karaoke versions of the songs will bring them to life in the classroom and at home! (Levels 1–4)
An interactive version of the Stories, including audio, activities and vocabulary sets, allows students to listen to the stories at any time! (Levels 1–2)
1, 3 and 5
Make the most of your digital materials for use on the IWB!
PRIMARY
All levels
Teacher’s IWB Class Book
Experiment time! videos. The experiments have been filmed in a captivating TV show format that is sure to attract students’ attention. Use them as a powerful presentation tool or simply to save valuable classroom time!
• karaoke versions of the songs are sure to add to the fun in your class!
• The animations are designed to illustrate key content in a simple and memorable way.
• Digital flashcards and posters help introduce new vocabulary in a motivating and fun way!
• Web or video links in the Let’s surf! section provide a wide variety of extra learning opportunities.
Digital stories with audio and activities bring the stories to life in the classroom. (Levels 1–2)
PowerPoint presentations (in Spanish* and English) include the key concepts in every unit and can be used to revise.
*Available only in Oxford Premium.
Interactive activities are provided in the Let’s play! section.
Talking Book: audio files for all the Class Book text are just a click away!
• Material lists: a list of all the supplies needed per unit for the experiments or group-work activities.
• Letters to parents indicate the unit content, what resources they can use from the Plus Zone and includes a bilingual list of vocabulary.
• The unit programmes following the latest legislation are also included.
• Extra editable worksheets: one per content lesson.
• Printable templates for Make your own poster! (Levels 1–4)
• The IWB Class Book also includes a toolkit for use on the IWB.
• Editable support worksheets for adaptaciones curriculares (levels 3–6)
• Editable extension worksheets (levels 3–6)
• Tests A and B
• Editable revision worksheets
• Printable templates for Let’s work together!, Experiment time! and Make your own dictionary! lessons
Try out the demo!
http://digital.oupe.es/clil/demo
*Accessible via the Digital Class Book
Materials to use with computers or tablets.
LEVEL 1
LEVEL 3
LEVEL 5
Digital Class Books and Activity Bookswhich include everything in one place!• A page-faithful version of the book
• Integrated audio
• Plus Zone*
*Accessible via the Digital Class Book
*Accessible via the Digital Class Book
Try out the IWB Class Book for teachers!
http://digital.oupe.es/clil/demo
All the digital components are available per module.
