Nuffield Chemistry Activities for GCSE

This pack of Nuffield Chemistry activity sheets was designed to match the National Curriculum Science: Chemistry at Key stage Four from 1996. The ideas were drawn from materials produced by various Nuffield projects over the previous ten years. The pack includes student sheets for 89 different activities. Teacher guidance is provided for each activity.

Some of the activities provide opportunities for students to develop their investigative skills and at the same time gain experience in the ways in which scientists carry out systematic enquiries. There are also activities which involve structured discussion in small groups and encourage reporting back orally both to a small group and to the whole class. Other activities encourage students to put words and pictures together to produce their
own science descriptions and explanations.

In addition there are also activities in which students have to interpret or record information in various forms, including tables, charts, graphs, diagrams, and models. Gathering, displaying and interpreting data are an important feature of these activities. Students can work with data from secondary sources in various forms.

Contents
Section C1: Introducing chemical reactions
Section C2: Making use of oil
Section C3: Chemicals from rocks and minerals
Section C4: Materials - their structures and uses
Section C5: Chemistry and the environment
Section C6: Enzymes in action
Section C7: Controlling acidity
Section C8: Fertilizers
Section C9: The Periodic Table
Section C10: Atoms and bonding