Resources by Schools Council
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Starting from Rocks
Starting from Rocks was one of four books published by the Schools Council Environmental Studies Project to illustrate a recommended approach for working with students in the 5 to 13 age range. The approach had, as one of its aims, the development by children of a variety of methods of examining and representing...
Structures and Forces, Stage One and Two
This resource suggests classroom activities based on observations of structures such as building, bridges and some natural structures. Students build models to investigate the strength of different structures and materials. There is a list of materials mentioned in the Unit, although the sources suggested need to...
Structures and Forces, Stage Three
The Science 5/13 unit Structures and forces stage three continues to study of structures and forces met in children’s daily experience as in Structures and Forces Stages One and Two. However, in stages one and two the forces met were always balanced and the...
The units for teachers under the collective title of Using the environment were written by Margaret Collis, described in the preface to the books as “a valued friend of the Science 5/13 project” but not a member of the project team. She had written Using the environment as a result of her many years of working with...
The Learning Through Science Teachers’ Guides and Pupils’ Assignment Cards comprise 12 themes, or units, of activities. There are 24 cards for pupils to use within each unit. Each card usually presents basic scientific concepts, but the main thrust of the pupils’ assignments is towards the development of attitudes...
These 13 Science 5/13 units for teachers describe classroom activities related to various topics. The activities are linked to the objectives identified for stages one and two, listed in Objectives for children learning science: guidelines to keep in mind at the back of each unit. It was intended that teachers...
The Science 5/13 project provided resources for teachers for use with children who had reached Stage Three and were developing the ability for abstract thinking. However, an entirely abstract approach was not intended and the work was still to be approached through experience which could be extended through the use...
The Schools Council was set up in 1964 to disseminate...
Technology and the Schools: Schools Council Working Paper No. 18
This resource is a working paper on the pilot study report of the Schools Council Project Technology. The pilot study was commissioned by the Council in 1966/67 to find out how help could be offered to schools wishing to reflect in their curriculum the increasing...
The Continuing Mathematics Project: a Case Study
This report gives a fairly full account of the origins and life of the Continuing Mathematics Project (CMP), together with details of what materials were produced and how it was developed and tested in schools. In addition to a discussion of the way in which a variety of institutions used the materials, four tutors...