Resources by Nuffield Foundation

Annual Percentage Rate (APR)

This resource is part of a collection of Nuffield Maths resources exploring Personal Finance. The demand is roughly equivalent to that in GCE A level.  The resources include slide shows to introduce the topics, student sheets and teacher notes, as well as other relevant materials.

Students calculate the...

Anthropometric Data

This resource from the Nuffield Foundation allows students to investigate relationships between anthropometric variables and write a report on their findings, which may include the use of scatter diagrams, lines of best fit, regression lines, and correlation coefficients. The spreadsheet contains anthropometric...

Apparatus: A Sourcebook of Information and Ideas

This sourcebook of information and ideas from the Nuffield Junior Science Project is a collection of photographs and descriptions of apparatus designed and made by children and teachers. It was intended for reference and also to give support to teachers who were making...

APR with more than one instalment

This resource is part of a collection of Nuffield Maths resources exploring Personal Finance. The demand is roughly equivalent to that in GCE A level.  The resources include slide shows to introduce the topics, student sheets and teacher notes, as well as other relevant materials.

This resource explores...

Area

This resource consists of seventeen work cards each requiring students to investigate some aspect of area and perimeter of shapes. Associated with each card is a student help sheet and comprehensive teacher notes detailing assumed knowledge for each task, the purpose of...

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Argumentation

This set of resources exemplifies ways in which practical work can be used alongside a pedagogical approach known as argumentation. Argumentation is a core practice used by communities of research scientists, and it is through these activities that science knowledge is developed and agreed. Argumentation activities...

Arranging the furniture

Students design a new layout for the classroom, measuring the furniture, making scaled cut-outs and placing them on a prepared plan.

This resource is part of the Nuffield Maths Level 1 Foundation resource collection.

Assessing Ethics in Secondary Science

This report, published in 2009, is based on a seminar held in London in 2008 at the Nuffield Foundation. It discusses why teaching ethics in science is important and examines approaches to the assessment of ethics in science considering key issues, such as the importance of ethical debate in science classes, the...

Assessing Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences

Assessing Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences was written in the early days of the GCSE and balanced science qualifications as a guide for the many teachers involved in teaching Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences. The book was part of a series about assessment commissioned by...