Science Teaching Manuals | Dr Dave's Teaching Manuals | Dr David Purvis

Everything you need to teach a unit on the Digestive System is here, with full-color illustrations, hints and tips and detailed activities. There are diagrams and colorful images for classroom presentations on the accompanying CD.

The aim of the manual is that children are enabled to discover and construct knowledge for themselves and that teachers have the resources and information to make the learning exciting. There are dozens of activities and topics to choose from at various levels and a wonderful 'end-of-it-all' class demonstration to simulate how the digestive system works.

The easy demonstrations use basic materials such as crackers, construction paper, oil and marshmallows. There are reproducible worksheets to offer as homework or in-class assignments; safety tips, advice on how to keep students focused, enrichment extensions, vocabulary word lists and puzzles to reinforce the learning of them.

If you have ever struggled to understand and teach basic electricity, this book and CD provide the fundamentals of circuits, insulators and conductors, batteries, resistance and magnetism, also how to make an electromagnet, and a battery from lemon juice. There are dozens of practical experiments, jokes to enjoy and ideas for taking things further for gifted students.

Included throughout: safety advice and budget tips, quizzes and wordgames and an awareness of likely student reactions to  the material being taught.

A visually stunning book and accompanying CD for the projection of images. This book will inspire teachers and students and enable them to better understand our solar system. The series hallmark of simple explanations with class activities using readily available materials, is beautifully presented here.

Teach the structure of the Sun, show the planets, asteroids and meteors and demonstrate revolution and rotation.

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Another visually attractive and empowering teacher manual and CD from Dr Dave. He covers salinity, tides and currents, the different layers of the Oceans, food chains, fish, mammals and other life, enlivened with jokes that appeal to children and with activities that all can join in.

This is the perfect introduction to chemistry at the elementary level: all about liquids, solids and gases and lots about slime!

Activities include making crystals and the processes of evaporation and condensation.

As in the previous manuals, there are teacher resource materials that include a CD, safety advice and budget tips, quizzes and wordgames and an awareness of real classroom situations and potential hazards.

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This unit is about plant and animal cells, their similarities and their differences. Students will learn about cell parts and functions including the cell membrane, lipids, diffusion, osmosis, prokaryotes and eukaryotes, organelles, the genetic code, and viruses.

This thorough and detailed manual introduces complex subjects through simple yet dramatic experiments.

The parts of the microscope are covered and and how to use one. Practice is given in writing laboratory reports and, as in the other books in the series, it is accompanied by a very useful CD for projection. 

The latest in the series of Dr. Dave’s Teaching Manuals, Chemistry, is accompanied by a CD that contains vivid images and diagrams which you may want to project for your visual learners as you proceed through your instructional presentation. The CD also includes notes for your students to copy.

Topics covered in this Manual include solutions, balancing chemical equations, the pH scale, chromatography and the separation of colored substances. Because the chemistry unit is naturally rich in Physical Science topics, while students are learning about the reaction between vinegar and baking soda for example, they will also be engaging in learning about the Law of Conservation of Mass.

As Dr. Dave guides your teaching, you will be enabling your students to discover and construct knowledge for themselves by using inquiry-based real science.

There are reproducible worksheets, games and activities.