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People and Roads

This Nuffield Working with Science unit used the context of roads and road safety to provide opportunities for students to collect and interpret data, carry out experiments and come to a point of view on an issue.

Guidance for teachers and technicians appears in Teachers’ Notes E.

The unit was revised and republished for the CPVE edition of the project in the 1980s. Guidance for this version appears in the Tutors’ Handbook.

Contents
Section 1: Looking at some road user statistics
Section 2: Friction effects
Section 3: Impact
Section 4: Making better roads
Section 5: Road users and the Law
Section 6: Seeing and being seen
Section 7: Going round the bend

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