This Exploring the Nature of Science book is divided into units each of which deals with an episode in the history of science. The units involved a variety of teaching and learning methods. 

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This is one of a set of resources developed to support the teaching of the primary national curriculum. They are designed to support the delivery of key topics within design and technology and maths. This resource focusses on drawing a plan view of a classroom.

Different types of drawing are used to...

This Topic Brief was published as part of the ASE’s LAMP Project. This unit was developed from work carried out with non-academic boys and girls in the age range 14 to 16 years. It was tried with some success on groups of between 12 and 15 in an urban comprehensive school of 1750 pupils. The average reading age of...

Medical Emergencies, from the Centre for Science Education, is a set of teaching materials which offer a cross-curricular approach to learning about engineering. Students design and make a hanging storage device that could, ideally, be folded up to make a rucksack or...

This booklet was written to provide a guide to the National Curriculum for students in compulsory education, those aged five to sixteen. Published in 1989, it examines the legal requirements of the curriculum in the light of the Education Reform Act (ERA) of 1988. Chapters aim: • to show how the ERA requirements...

The Mineral Process Chemistry special study was originally published by the Mineral Industry Manpower and Careers Unit (MIMCU) in 1980 as a supplement to the studies published earlier by the Nuffield Foundation. In the first revision of the course, in 1984, this title was incorporated into the project’s list of...

The Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences Biology book was illustrated in full colour in both editions. There was no change in content between the two editions. The file for this resource is the second edition which used more colour in the design. The text included explanatory text, and questions. Symbols in the margins...

The contents of the Biology strand of Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences were broadly the same in both the first and second editions of the publications. The second edition of the Teachers’ Guide showed how the course matched to the 1992 version of the National Curriculum...

The aim of this experiment is for students to be able to determine for themselves the threshold voltage needed to activate a range of LEDs of different colours. From these values, combined with a knowledge of the wavelengths of each LED, students can plot a graph to determine a value for Planck’s constant. The...

Published by the Nuffield Foundation this Revised Nuffield Advanced Biology Practical Guide is linked to chapters 11-14 of Study Guide I. Technical information and notes for teachers about the practical activities is given in...

Published by the Nuffield Foundation this Revised Nuffield Advanced Biology Practical Guide is linked to chapters 22 - 25 of Study Guide II. Technical information and notes for teachers about the practical activities is given in ...

In the Nuffield Advanced Physics course, published by the Nuffield Foundation, the original authors were keenly aware of the need to design an end-of-course examination that was not only technically 'reliable' but was also 'valid', in that it tested the stated aims of...

Produced in 2008, these Secondary National Strategy lesson plan sequences were written to help teachers in planning for and teaching specific ideas important to their learning from Key Stage Three to Key Stage Four.

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This booklet is part of the ‘Innovations in Practical Work’ series published by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP). Solar cells use light from the Sun to generate electricity, and it is now quite common to see solar-powered consumer devices. What has held...

Part 2 of the TRUMP Astrophysics resource package dealt with the observational properties of astronomical objects and was therefore concerned with the analysis and interpretation of observations.

Like Part 1 of the TRUMP package, this part contained study notes (self-study material for teachers), teaching...