Pearson Queensland Senior Science

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The new Pearson Biology, Chemistry and Physics Queensland second edition student books offer teachers and students precise, streamlined content to fully meet the 2025 QCE outcomes, featuring refined and focused content with unmatched rigour and quality that you can rely on to save you time and help you teach with confidence.

Teachers will love the improved syllabus mapping, making it easier than ever to understand which syllabus dot points are covered by each section in the Student Books.

Explore the new, enhanced and updated features that make the new second edition Student Books stand out:

• New Science as a Human Endeavour sections
• New Data Analysis tasks at the end of each Chapter review
• Enhanced and updated Skills and Assessment Toolkit
• Enhanced question sets
• Updated Practical Manual of Practical Investigations.
• Updated Unit reviews
• Updated syllabus-compliant Glossary

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The second edition student books include new Science as a Human Endeavour sections, helping students to contextually reinforce learning and providing teachers with a trusted and convenient stimulus for the Research Investigation.

Situated at the end of chapters in each student book, the Science as a Human Endeavour sections are structured to support students in developing the foundational skills needed to enable development of science inquiry skills through the lens of science in the world around them.

 These new sections provide critical support students to launch into Research Investigation IA3 and draw upon building proficiency for the Assessment objectives 1, 2 and 3.  

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The second edition student books include a new Data Analysis section following each Chapter review.

These sections provide practice tasks for qualitative and quantitative data relevant to the subject matter of each chapter, ensuring students have opportunities to respond to questions on a range of topics and using a range of data.

To prepare students for assessment, the Data Analysis tasks are structured to reflect the approach taken in the Data Test IA1 and are aligned with the Assessment objectives 2, 3 and 4.

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The second edition student books include new Skillbuilders and Worked Examples covering all topics.

The Skillbuilders outline a method or technique, providing instructive and self-contained steps to support students in applying science skills when analyzing or utilising knowledge.

The Worked Examples use sequential steps of thinking and working, enhancing student understanding and application of formulas to subject matter through a research-based approach. Each Worked Example is followed by a Try Yourself task, allowing students to apply their learning to a similar problem and practice the skill.

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The Chapter 1 Skills and Assessment Toolkit at the start of each student book has been reworked and fully updated to meet the evolved requirements of the revised QCE 2025 Syllabus and to respond to the current needs of teachers and students.

The material in the Skills and Assessment Toolkits is presented for quick and easy reference and has also been enhanced, providing additional materials to support the Science Inquiry Skills and Assessment requirements.

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The second edition student books include Practical Investigations that have been updated to support the QCE 2025 requirements. Ensuring they can be safely performed and yield effective results in your classroom, all Practical Investigations have been trialled and tested and include full risk assessments and additional support the eBooks.

The updated Practical Investigations:

• provide reliable opportunities for students to develop, practice, and refine science inquiry skills, including
  • gathering primary data to analyse and respond to scaffolded or open-ended science tasks
  • developing a deeper understanding and proficiency of scientific methods
• effectively prepare students for Student experiment IA2, pertinent to Assessment objectives 1 to 6
• support teachers with formative assessment of science inquiry skills.

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Reinforcing learning and preparing students for assessment, each chapter finishes with a list of key terms covered in the chapter and a set of multiple choice and short response questions, reflecting the style and experience of the External Assessment (EA). These questions are organised under the four Assessment objectives for the subject matter:  

1. describe
2. apply
3. analyse
4. interpret.

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Ensuring students are fully prepared for assessment, the Unit Review sections provide clearly mapped questions that completly cover the syllabus and ensure alignment with the right cognition.

The Unit Review questions are organised under the four Assessment objectives for the subject matter:  

1. describe
2. apply
3. analyse
4. interpret.

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The second edition student books have been updated to ensure the comprehensive glossary accurately defines all key terms in alignment with the syllabus context. Key terms are also shown in bold throughout the Student Book and are listed at the end of each chapter.

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The Skills and Assessment Books give students the edge in preparing for all forms of assessment. All 2025 QCE Biology, Chemistry and Physics assessments must be completed in writing, making written practice an essential part of assessment preparation. The Pearson Biology, Chemistry and Physics for Queensland Skills and Assessment books ensure students can consolidate learning and conceptual understanding while effectively preparing for the assessment environment.

The new editions are updated and refined to respond to the revised syllabus and provide opportunities to consolidate, develop and apply subject matter and science inquiry skills.

The Skills and Assessment Books consolidate in-class concepts, supporting teachers and learners with a toolkit consisting of:

• scaffolded practical investigations
• key knowledge summaries, a knowledge review and worksheets
• checklists, models and exemplars
• assessment practice
• exam-style Topic review sets
• practice items for internal assessments and external exams.

If your school is only using the Skills and Assessment Book, please contact the Pearson Customer Service team to request access to the answers.

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With the Student eBooks, students can access all student book content, take notes, save bookmarks and more — anywhere, anytime, online and offline, as well as accessing engaging digital resources such as videos, interactives and answers.

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The Teacher eBooks include all Student eBook content plus additional support and guidance to support delivery of the revised syllabus with confidence, including:

• complete answers and fully worked solutions
• practical investigation expected results, common mistakes, suggested answers and full safety notes and risk assessments
• updated teaching, learning and assessment programs and syllabus mapping documents.

If your school is only using the Skills and Assessment Book, please contact the Pearson Customer Service team to request access to the answers.

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• Understanding the course
• Understanding assessment instructions
• Chapter 1 (eBook) Biology skills and assessment toolkit
  • Working scientifically
  • Student experiment
  • Research investigation
• UNIT 1: Cells and multicellular organisms
  • Chapter 2 The fundamental cell
  • Chapter 3 The functioning cell
  • Chapter 4 Cell organisation and specialisation
  • Chapter 5 Organ systems
  • Unit 1 review
• UNIT 2: Maintaining the internal environment
  • Chapter 6 Homeostasis
  • Chapter 7 Disease and its causes
  • Chapter 8 The immune response
  • Chapter 9 Disease patterns
  • Unit 2 review
• Practical Manual
• Science as a Human Endeavour
• Glossary
• Index

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• Understanding the course
• Understanding assessment instructions
• Chapter 1 (eBook) Chemistry skills and assessment toolkit
• Working scientifically
• Student experiment
• Research investigation
• UNIT 1: Chemical fundamentals—structure, properties and reactions
  • Chapter 2 Elements, compounds and mixtures
  • Chapter 3 The atomic world
  • Chapter 4 The periodic table and periodic trends
  • Chapter 5 Analytical techniques
  • Chapter 6 Metals – bonding and properties
  • Chapter 7 Ionic compounds
  • Chapter 8 Covalent compounds
  • Chapter 9 The mole, molar mass and stoichiometry
  • Chapter 10 Energy changes in chemical reactions
  • Unit 1 review
• UNIT 2: Molecular interactions and reactions
  • Chapter 11 Intermolecular forces and chromatography
  • Chapter 12 Gases
  • Chapter 13 Water and aqueous solutions
  • Chapter 14 An introduction to acids and bases
  • Chapter 15 Rates of chemical reactions
  • Unit 2 review
• Practical Manual
• Science as a Human Endeavour
• Appendix
• Glossary
• Index

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• Understanding the course
• Understanding assessment instructions
• Chapter 1 (eBook) Physics skills and assessment toolkit
• Working scientifically
• Student experiment
• Research investigation
• UNIT 1: Thermal, nuclear and electrical physics
  • Chapter 2 Heating processes
  • Chapter 3 Ionising radiation and nuclear reactions
  • Chapter 4 Electrical physics
  • Chapter 5 Electrical circuits
  • Unit 1 review
• UNIT 2: Linear motion and waves
  • Chapter 6 Vectors and linear motion
  • Chapter 7 Classical mechanics
  • Chapter 8 Energy
  • Chapter 9 Properties of waves
  • Chapter 10 Sound
  • Chapter 11 Light
  • Unit 2 review
• Practical Manual
• Science as a Human Endeavour
• Appendix
• GlossaryIndex