There is increasing pressure on students training to be secondary teac hers to develop their subject expertise and classroom competence in a short space of time. All students on secondary initial teacher trainin g programs must meet the requirements of the National Curriculum relat ing to science knowledge and subject application. Meeting the standard s in secondary science provides the pedagogical knowledge needed to te ach science in secondary schools. Chapters explicitly linked to blocks of curriculum requirements support activities for work in schools and self study information on...