Student Life and Science Student Book 3

Author: (English) Dowey, Ma, et al., edited by Lan Chun
Publisher:
Publishing Date: 2004-09-01
Features:
- Content closely related to students' daily lives, exercises derived from real-life scenarios reflecting the latest developments in the subject.
- Writing style is warm and humanistic, making it easy and enjoyable to read.
- Abundant high-quality illustrations, rich in modernity, artistry, and scientificity.
- Moderate length with a well-structured layout, offering both depth and breadth.
- Cultivates the ability to apply knowledge in practice, emphasizing inquiry-based teaching and learning.
- Teacher's book is comprehensive, serving as an extension and supplement to the student's book.
- Includes: Student's book, Activity book, Teacher's book.
The Foreign Language Press organized subject and English education experts and scholars, based on the current teaching practices in primary and secondary schools, referred to and drew inspiration from the essence of advanced textbooks domestically and internationally. They balanced the successes and challenges of bilingual teaching pilot programs across regions, pooling wisdom to introduce and adapt this series of bilingual textbooks, Living Science (Livingscience). This series emphasizes subject positioning, ensuring appropriate language difficulty and scientific accuracy, with distinct features:
First, the book is closely aligned with students' lives and learning, focusing on cultivating the ability to apply knowledge in practice, thereby helping students return from the scientific world to the real world.
Second, the content is rich and accessible. Concepts in the textbook are primarily expressed using vivid and colloquial language, with fewer technical terms.
Third, it emphasizes stimulating students' inquiry skills during the scientific learning process, equally valuing both conclusions and the process. Primary school textbooks integrate activities throughout, while secondary school textbooks introduce scientific concepts and inquiry steps early, guiding students to learn and apply science, fostering observation, experimentation, thinking, and self-learning skills.
Fourth, it prioritizes breadth over depth in knowledge. The series mainly covers three major fields: life science, material science, and cosmic science. While systematically explaining the basics of these fields, it emphasizes a holistic course design with cross-disciplinary content.
Fifth, the layout is lively and visually engaging. The inclusion of numerous high-quality illustrations is a key feature of the series, especially in primary school textbooks, which combines real photographs and cartoon images to fully stimulate students' creativity and imagination.
Sixth, it is open-ended. The series provides teachers and students with choices and innovative space in learning content, activities, assignments, and assessments. It also guides students to use diverse resources from schools, families, society, nature, the internet, and various media for inquiry-based learning, enabling students to subconsciously master English while studying science, thereby achieving the goals of bilingual education.