ESSENTIAL Science Basic 8 offers you a premium course in Science. The material has been developed to meet the full requirements of the Common Core curriculum for JHS, as developed by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA), carefully addressing all Strands, Sub-strands, Content Standards, Indicators and Core Competencies. Throughout the series, attitudes, values and skills as prescribed by the curriculum, are addressed. Science encourages learners to be responsible and competent citizens who are scientifically literate, creative thinkers, problem-solvers and self-confident communicators that are fully engaged in solving local and global issues experienced in the world around them. The Science Basic 8 Facilitator’s Guide supports you to teach the new curriculum with confidence and offers: step-by-step teaching guidelines; answers to activities in the Learner’s Book; assessment rubrics and checklists that can be used to assess learners formally or informally; memos that can be used to assess learners’ understanding of the concepts learned; activities that can be used for diagnostic assessment; suggestions for how to include local materials and ICT in the learning process; curriculum coverage tables at the start of each Strand indicating how Content Standards and Core Competencies are covered in the course; and remedial and extension activities to support multi-ability learning.