Science Guide Books

[pixiedust]

Sometimes the kids take time to warm up to the books. These series, on first glance, look very wordy and boring but actually there are humorous, witty bits peppered throughout. Ds took to the science and maths immediately but the horrible histories and dead famous took a while. He only started reading them last year.


Champion, I think you are exploring this series due to chenoneau’s sugestion in the other thread. I do agree with her. Science is a very wide topic. The books may not help a child improve grades immediately but hopefully improve the general knowledge and simulate interest in the subject. How about take your dd to popular and ask her to pick one or two books from the series. At least the books are always easily available at home and you can consider to invest in the whole series when she is ready. Just my 2cents worth.

[PiggyLalala]

janet_lee88:

sleepy:

My dd is a huge fan of horrible science & murderous maths. I tried reading but nearly fell asleep by page 3, too dry for me. I better stick to my 亦舒小说

I know Horrible Science but have not seen murderous maths. Have not read my fav 'Women Weekly' for a long time.

The library has the murderous maths series too. Look under the 'maths shelves'. My ds1 loves to read them too.

[Champion]

pixiedust:

Sometimes the kids take time to warm up to the books. These series, on first glance, look very wordy and boring but actually there are humorous, witty bits peppered throughout. Ds took to the science and maths immediately but the horrible histories and dead famous took a while. He only started reading them last year.


Champion, I think you are exploring this series due to chenoneau's sugestion in the other thread. I do agree with her. Science is a very wide topic. The books may not help a child improve grades immediately but hopefully improve the general knowledge and simulate interest in the subject. How about take your dd to popular and ask her to pick one or two books from the series. At least the books are always easily available at home and you can consider to invest in the whole series when she is ready. Just my 2cents worth.

Hi pixiedust,
:thankyou: for your suggestion :hugs: ...I am thinking to loan it from the NLB first to let her read and later monitor her reactions.

Form the experience with her on the Young Scientist Magazines, which I have bought a few issues from some parents here - she read it casually and after that, packed them nicely and put inside her cabinet :lol: ...
So, this time round, I shall not spend any :moneyflies: 1st :lol:

[pixiedust]

cimman:

I had a look at the 2 books you recommended. Both do have questions that are outside of the usual \"test your memory\" questions.


Perfect Match Science Challenging Questions by Manisha Nayak
- I find that the difficulty of the questions are a notch below Longman's. I didn't really enjoy reading this assessment simply because the fonts were in a pale blue color and that made it difficult to read, lack of contrast....

Over the holiday I went to Popular often :evil: so I checked the above. Just want to add here that the pale blue font is Perfect Match P3/P4, the P5/P6 is black font.

To ALL : The Science guidebooks are for supplementary reading. Has anyone come across good summarised notes ? I have seen the notes in assessment books eg. by Janet Sim, Benny Koh etc BUT still looking...

[janet88]

I find that authors of Science assessment books should provide answers with keywords underlined, so that students and parents will know what to remember. Ultimately, that is the prob many students are facing. For section B, kids lose marks there bcos they don't know what keywords are.

Any author who can provide an answer key will help students/parents a great lot.

[Champion]

janet_lee88:

I find that authors of Science assessment books should provide answers with keywords underlined, so that students and parents will know what to remember. Ultimately, that is the prob many students are facing. For section B, kids lose marks there bcos they don't know what keywords are.

Any author who can provide an answer key will help students/parents a great lot.

I feedback to DD1's Science T twice regarding the \"keywords\" that students need to be aware in learning Science and know how to answer to the questions esp in Sect B. Apparently, I don't see any action in this areas and I have to constantly remind DD1 to look out for the \"keywords\" in the questions and then look at the provided answers. From there she does her own underlining and Mummy to assist to check

So, back to the square - Mummy still has to coach!

[janet88]

Champion:

janet_lee88:

Ultimately, that is the prob many students are facing. For section B, kids lose marks there bcos they don't know what keywords are.

Any author who can provide an answer key will help students/parents a great lot.

I feedback to DD1's Science T twice regarding the \"keywords\" that students need to be aware in learning Science and know how to answer to the questions esp in Sect B. Apparently, I don't see any action in this areas and I have to constantly remind DD1 to look out for the \"keywords\" in the questions and then look at the provided answers. So, back to the square - Mummy still has to coach!

Want to depend on teachers ? Forget it. Which is why I'm wondering why kids have to attend school.

[Hifive]

janet_lee88:

I find that authors of Science assessment books should provide answers with keywords underlined, so that students and parents will know what to remember. Ultimately, that is the prob many students are facing. For section B, kids lose marks there bcos they don't know what keywords are.

Any author who can provide an answer key will help students/parents a great lot.

yes, agree with janet_lee88. This will help students a lot.

[janet88]

Son told me his teacher has finished 'Human Circulatory System' within 2 days :faint: ...that means nothing much has been taught. There are many questions on that topic in exam papers.


I'm going through CA2 papers to check out questions for him to read and understand better.

[Brenda10]

hquek:

actually if one is looking for natural sciences, I think the comics may be of value. i recall one psle year question on how to make water if given a set of things. Thought I saw some steps being outlined in one of those survival books. Not sure if I'm hallucinating.


anyways, think those books are fairly popular becos each time there is a sale, those things disappear fast.

http://www.mphonline.com/books/nsearch.aspx?do=detail&pcode=9789833421237

and now that I see the price in ringgit, I'll go jb to check out (after the finger printing mess is sorted out that is). meanwhile, I'm off to bang my head against a wall (paid $7.60, and the price in ringgit is RM10.50).

Hi hquek

Thank you for sharing.

Agree that this series of comis are really interesting.

One of the survival comics that dd read have a picture illustrated of the different size of ears between Dessert Fox and Arctic Fox due to their adaptation. Bigger ears to reduce body heat and smaller ears to reduce the loss of body heat.

The above is similar to one of the open & end question (elephant) came out during PSLE 2010!