Includes index.

The role of activities and investigations in science education -- Life and living processes -- Humans as organisms -- Green plants as organisms -- Variety, adaptation and interdependence -- States of matter and physical change -- Mechanical properties of materials and objects -- Explaining physical changes -- Chemical changes -- Obtaining and making materials -- Earth science -- Energy -- Electricity -- Forces and their effects -- Gravity and magnetism -- Sound -- Light -- The Earth in space.

This volume aims to help teachers develop a basic repertoire of activities through which young students can learn to observe, investigate, predict, interpret and communicate in a scientific way.