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 Two, revolve around the themes of:

• Electricity and Magnetism
• Light and Sound
• The Weather and its Effects
• Forces and their Effects
• Human Effects on the Environment

Also available:

• Starting Science 1: Animals, Matter, Plants
• Starting Science 3: Living Things, Keeping Warm, Structure of Materials/Chemical Changes