This Nuffield Foundation booklet contains two keys that were designed to be used in Year IV of the Nuffield biology course. They were intended as a rough guide to plants and animals which could be found...

The title of the fifth year of the original Nuffield Biology course is ‘The Perpetuation of Life’. This makes up the final year of the three-year intermediate programme leading to certification at age 16.

The textbook...

The title of the fourth year of the original Nuffield Biology course is ‘Living Things in Action’. This makes up the middle year of the three-year intermediate programme leading to certification at age 16.

The...

The title of the first year of the original Nuffield Biology course is ‘Introducing Living Things’. This makes up the first year of the introductory two-year programme. This introductory phase is characterised by a broad general approach to the subject.

The title of the third year of the original Nuffield Biology course is ‘The Maintenance of Life’. This is the start of the three-year intermediate programme leading to certification at age 16.

The textbook is highly...

The title of the second year of the original Nuffield Biology course is ‘Life and Living Processes’. This makes up the second year of the introductory two-year programme. This introductory phase is characterised by a broad general approach to the subject.

The Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences team devised a science course covering biology, chemistry and physics in two subjects-worth of curriculum time. This was in line with the 1985 government policy statement Science 5 - 16 which set down the requirement for schools to provide courses of broad balanced science for all...

The Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences supplementary Worksheets and Teachers' guide for Biology enabled teachers to prepare students for separate-subject Biology GCSE examinations. The extra worksheets were arranged to fit in with the topics in the teaching order suggested for the...

The Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences Biology course aimed to introduce the biological principles which would help students to explain many of the phenomena they will observe in the natural world. It was also designed to help students towards a greater understanding of the functioning of their own bodies and their...

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...

Most of the Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences Biology Worksheets were the same in both editions of the course. Extra worksheets were published in an Upgrade Pack for the second edition. There is a full list of all the biology worksheets at the start of the biology section...

The rationale and detailed guidance on the teaching of Nuffield Co-ordinated was provided in a single, large Teachers’ Guide. The Guide was arranged in parts. These parts are presented separately in this collection of resources. The first part of the Teachers’ Guide set out the aims and structure of the course. In...

The Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences supplementary Worksheets and Teachers' Guides were published to enable teachers to prepare students for separate-subject GCSE examinations in the three sciences. The extra worksheets were arranged to fit in with the topics in the teaching orders suggested for the main course.

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...

Nuffield Combined Science was planned as a two-year course for students aged 11 to 13. It could be adapted for use with the whole range of ability. The course was very widely adopted. By 1979 it had been taken up, in whole or in part, by over half of all secondary...