The "Starting Science" series is designed to introduce students to some of the important skills associated with a hands on approach to the subject. In completing this series of thematic investigations children are required to utilize skills such as observing, classifying, recording, predicting, sequencing, comparing and contrasting, identifying, and labelling.

The activities in this book, Book One, revolve around the themes of:

• Matter
• Plants
• Animals

Also available:

• Starting Science 2: Electricity and Magnetism, Light and Sound, Weather, Human Effects on the Environment
• Starting Science 3: Living Things, Keeping Warm, Structure of Materials/Chemical Changes