Work done in this Nuffield 13 to 16 module followed from the unit called ‘Senses’. This B unit provided enough material for six double periods in the third year of secondary school (year nine). The teachers’ guide included 11 worksheets to supplement the students’ booklet. The general introduction in the teachers’...

This Nuffield 13 - 16 module is one for the start of the three-year programme. This B unit provided enough material for six double periods in the third year of secondary school (year nine). The teachers’ guide included six worksheets to supplement the students’ booklet...

The science in a Topic students’ book Ships provides a range of activities that enable children to develop ideas about floating, balance and stability. There are models to make and test which lead to ideas about the centre of gravity of stable and unstable objects. Ways of propelling and steering ships and the use...

Soap through the Ages was one of the first series of Unilever Educational Booklets. The booklet gives a survey of the soap industry from its beginning on the shores of the Mediterranean to the 1950s.

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Soap-Making was one of the first series of Unilever Educational Booklets. Written in the late 1950s, the booklet describes the principles of detergency and gives an account of both the batch and continuous methods of soap making.

Some of the content of this booklet was updated and represented as part of...

Soapless Detergents was one of the first series of Unilever Educational Booklets. Written in the early 1960s, the booklet gives an account of the research and development that gave rise to soapless detergents. At the time this was still a relatively new industry and the environmental concerns about some of the...

From NASA, this is a set of high quality images and information about the solar system. The set of materials features the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Earth’s Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, asteroids, comets, meteors and meteorites, the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud, and moons of the solar system...

This Nuffield Primary Science book consists of 11 colourful, and highly illustrated, double-page spreads aimed at students aged 7-9. The book ends with a glossary and index.

Contents
*Blow your...

Beginning with the confrontation between Galileo and the Church, this book follows some of the discoveries which led to modern cosmology and technology, to the excitement of science fiction, and modern space technology.

This Nuffield Advanced Chemistry Special Study enabled students to see something of the scope of the field of biochemistry, and to appreciate its dependence upon chemical principles The objectives were: *to show the fundamental chemical nature of living processes. *to consider the similarity of the chemical...

This Nuffield Advanced Chemistry Special Study enabled students to see something of the scope of the field of chemical engineering, and to appreciate its dependence upon chemical principles The objectives were to show:
*that chemical engineers are concerned with...

This Nuffield Advanced Chemistry Special Study enabled students to see something of the scope of the field of food science, and to appreciate its dependence upon chemical principles. The objectives were:
*to show the function and place of food in the human organism...

This Nuffield Advanced Chemistry Special Study enabled students to see something of the scope of the field of ion exchange, and to appreciate its dependence upon chemical principles. The objectives were to show: *the nature of ion exchange materials, and in particular that they are all insoluble acids or bases or...

The Science in a Topic students’ book Sports and Games begins with exploring games and sports in the present, past and other countries. Investigations include bouncing balls, reaction times, the impact of games played on grass, the tension in racquets and what affects the movement of a ball through the air....

This Nature of Science book looks at the history of astronomy and how scientists understanding of the solar system, forces and gravity has developed. The story includes the revolutionary ideas of Copernicus, Galileo and Newton and the theory of magnetism.

The chapters are:

1. Stars and gods

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