Section 1 Introduction


How this course works This Oxford Successful Natural Sciences Grade 8 course is part of a series that meets the requirements of the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) for the Senior Phase. The series consists of two core components each for Grade 8: a Learner’s Book and a Teacher’s Guide.


The Learner’s Book


The full-colour Learner’s Book provides content knowledge, core concepts and skills development. It includes activities for learners to develop, practise and consolidate their knowledge and skills. Teachers receive guidance on how to teach important concepts. Written texts are supported by illustrations that help to explain content. All examples, activities and illustrations are representative of all cultural groups. Activities steadily become more challenging so that learners progressively develop


their understanding of concepts. The Teacher’s Guide


The Teacher’s Guide provides you, the teacher, with all the planning, teaching and assessment tools you need to successfully teach this subject.


How this Teacher’s Guide should be used The Teacher’s Guide supports you by: • defining the subject, the National Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement


(CAPS) and teaching terminology


• indicating pacing, content and resources in content overviews, and structuring the course into lessons with clear teaching guidelines according to the CAPS


• providing background information (prior knowledge and skills covered in previous grades and/or interesting subject/topic backgrounds)


• providing suitable remediation and extension activities for each lesson • providing suggested answers for every activity • providing formal assessment tasks, marking guidelines and rubrics as required by the CAPS


• providing the chapter and unit at the bottom of the page to enable easy referencing between components


• offering additional resources that support core content. 6


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