Produced in 2007, this is an an International Review of Curriculum and Assessment (INCA) thematic probe to compare compulsory assessment systems which the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) asked National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) to undertake. It gathered information via the 20 INCA...

Produced by the Charles Darwin Trust, the activities in these materials help students to consider biodiversity within a habitat. To observe change over time, in 1846 Darwin planted a hedge at Down House. Twenty years later, he surveyed the hedge and recorded those species that had disappeared and new plant arrivals...

This resource includes a set of activities to link the features of specialised cells to their function and focus on the language needed to describe and to explain. There are several powerpoints which include all the cards and worksheets needed to run the activities described in the teaching notes.

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This unit on geometrical reasoning from the National Strategies aims to make a significant contribution to the development of teaching and learning of geometrical reasoning. It was planned for the end of Year Nine in order to provide an opportunity to draw together students’ existing geometrical knowledge within a...

An activity to build an animal shelter for the winter which provides suggestions for the range (and types) of materials required.

The original Nuffield O-level Biology texts were published in the mid-1960s. About ten years later the texts and guides were revised following an evaluation of the materials.

Many teachers who had experience of using the materials contributed to the evaluation...

Stage III was the last part of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme for O-level Chemistry. It was designed to give students the opportunity to apply the skills and ideas they had met in Stages I and II to a number of selected fields of study. At O-level each student was...

The Nuffield Foundation revised and republished Nuffield Advanced Physics in 1985. The original carefully-thought-through structure of the course was retained but there were significant changes in the form of the published resources.

The project decided to...

In these videos, STEM Ambassadors describe why they took on the role and the benefits both for the students they visit and for themselves. The first video, Auditioning the STEM Ambassadors, was made by students who tested 16 STEM Ambassador finalists of a competition to choose a number who would feature in a series...

These level six books from Nuffield National Curriculum Mathematics, on Number and algeb...

Stage two of Nuffield National Curriculum Mathematics consists of three books at level five, one each for Number and algebra...

Teach Computing is an educational programme provided by the National Centre for Computing Education. It provides high-quality support for the teaching of computing in schools and colleges, from key stage 1 through to A level. The extensive range of training, resources and support covers elements of the curriculum...

This series of interactive excel sheets look the forces within strings.

The first sheet shows an adjustable mass hanging on an inextensible string, and demonstrates the fact that the tension is equal to the weight....