Resources by Nuffield Foundation
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Weather
This Nuffield Working with Science unit was designed to help students to appreciate why the study of weather is important. The topic was planned to cover factors that influence the weather and the reasons why weather forecasters need to collect a large amount of...
Weather
Work done in this Nuffield 13 - 16 module followed from the S unit called ‘Cars on the move’. This X unit provided enough material for eight double periods. It could be selected to complete either a Science or a Further Science course. The teachers’ guide included seven...
The Nuffield Mathematics Project Weaving Guides are single-concept books which give detailed instructions or information about a particular subject.
The first two guides are concerned with the advent of calculators and computers and how they might be used to develop mathematical concepts.
The use...
What Can You Learn from a Textile Tree?
In this unit from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology, students design and make a simple tree structure using a variety of textiles, paper and card.
The unit allows students to handle and experience a variety of textiles and relate them to their everday uses. They make textile sample...
What Display Will Your Class Share?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. Children design and produce a classroom display about a current topic in another subject.
The children will work in groups and as a whole...
What Do Plants Use for Food?
Work done in this Nuffield 13 - 16 module followed from the unit called ‘Food and digestion’. This B unit provided enough material for six double periods in the third year of secondary school (year nine). The teachers’ guide included four worksheets to supplement the...
What Is an Acid?
This is one of the 14 Background Books published for Stage III of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book is mainly an account of theories of acidity with examples to explain the importance of acids.
There are two parts to this book:...
What Is It?
The Nuffield Foundation provide this resource which can be used to introduce the idea of representing objects using plans and elevations. Students will have the opportunity to identify everyday objects photographed from plan and elevation views, draw 3D sketches of solids from their plan and elevation views, as...
What Message Will Your Billboard Send?
From the Nuffield Foundation, this resource contains a series of teacher support sheets and student record sheets that provide seven and a half hours work. In this activity, children work in groups to design and make a moving billboard for a specific purpose within their school or classroom.
The project...
What Music Would You Like to Make?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology in which children design and make a simple musical instrument and use it to play a part in a piece for four players.
There are opportunities to explore rhythm, simple melody lines and the arrangement of parts.
This resource...