This Spiral Edition Student Book is accessible to students of all abilities with a clear, colourful presentation to enhance learning and motivation.

The SEN Packs for Spotlight Science are based on real practical classroom experience and have been developed using feedback from user schools.

This Framework Edition Teacher Support Pack offers support and guidance.

The Framework Edition Assessment Resource Banks provide End-of-Topic tests to help you with evidence for your assessment of Sc2-4, and help you arrive at a level for your teacher assessment.

Each double-page spread provides a complete teaching unit of about one hour. The illustrations are in full colour and are always shown close to the relevant text. The reading age of the sentences and the number of words on a page have been carefully controlled. The sentence structure is simple, accessible and friendly, with clear personalised questions. The pages are carefully designed to show the pupils a very clear route through each spread. Every page has a 'Things to do' section of questions. These are useful for homework, or as extra work for faster students, or for work during staff absence.

Science and Technology explores questions around the central concepts of STEM fields: How do we interact with science and technology on a daily basis? Is technology surpassing biology? What are the ethics of science and technology? Does technology rule our economy? How is the internet changing society? Readings by biologists, climate scientists, journalists, ethicists, novelists, engineers, and others take up these questions and more. Questions and assignments for each selection provide a range of activities for students. The Bedford Spotlight Reader Series is an exciting line of single-theme readers, each reflecting Bedford’s trademark care and quality. An editorial board of a dozen compositionists at schools with courses focusing on specific themes assists in the development of the series. Each reader collects thoughtfully chosen selections sufficient for an entire writing course—about 35 pieces—to allow instructors to provide carefully developed, high-quality instruction at an affordable price. Bedford Spotlight Readers are designed to help students from all majors make sustained inquiries from multiple perspectives, opening up topics such as borders, food, gender, happiness, humor, language, monsters, music, subcultures, and sustainability, to critical analysis. The readers are flexibly arranged in thematic chapters, with each chapter focusing in depth on a different facet of the central topic. The instructor resource tab of each reader’s catalog page includes instructor support with sample syllabi and additional teaching resources.

The Framework Edition Assessment Resource Banks provide End-of-Topic tests for each topic. These can help to provide you with evidence for your assessment of Sc2-4, and help you arrive at a Level for your teacher Assessment.

This physical science volume addresses mixtures and solutions and the technology involved with creating and studying them. Readers will learn about the methods that chemistry pioneers used to arrive at an understanding of the nature of mixtures. Readers will learn how to distinguish mixtures from solutions. Historical examples and contemporary examples from the fields of pharmacology and microelectronics will promote interest and understanding. Diagrams and colorful photographs of scientists at work will help make complex scientific concepts easier for elementary readers to understand.

Modern airborne and spaceborne imaging radars, known as synthetic aperture radars (SARs), are capable of producing high-quality pictures of the earth's surface while avoiding some of the shortcomings of certain other forms of remote imaging systems. Primarily, radar overcomes the nighttime limitations of optical cameras, and the cloud- cover limitations of both optical and infrared imagers. In addition, because imaging radars use a form of coherent illumination, they can be used in certain special modes such as interferometry, to produce some unique derivative image products that incoherent systems cannot. One such product is a highly accurate digital terrain elevation map (DTEM). The most recent (ca. 1980) version of imaging radar, known as spotlight-mode SAR, can produce imagery with spatial resolution that begins to approach that of remote optical imagers. For all of these reasons, synthetic aperture radar imaging is rapidly becoming a key technology in the world of modern remote sensing. Much of the basic `workings' of synthetic aperture radars is rooted in the concepts of signal processing. Starting with that premise, this book explores in depth the fundamental principles upon which the spotlight mode of SAR imaging is constructed, using almost exclusively the language, concepts, and major building blocks of signal processing. Spotlight-Mode Synthetic Aperture Radar: A Signal Processing Approach is intended for a variety of audiences. Engineers and scientists working in the field of remote sensing but who do not have experience with SAR imaging will find an easy entrance into what can seem at times a very complicated subject. Experienced radar engineers will find that the book describes several modern areas of SAR processing that they might not have explored previously, e.g. interferometric SAR for change detection and terrain elevation mapping, or modern non-parametric approaches to SAR autofocus. Senior undergraduates (primarily in electrical engineering) who have had courses in digital signal and image processing, but who have had no exposure to SAR could find the book useful in a one-semester course as a reference.

'Spotlight Science' lessons are offered in double page spread format. Each lesson commences with a starter activity, designed to stimulate students' thinking and to engage their interest. Each lesson concludes with summary questions for consolidation of knowledge and understanding.