This resource gives KS3 physics learners the opportunity to learn or further develop their understanding of energy changes, generation, and storage in various scenarios. The activities include designing and manufacturing structures and analysing data.

• A series of activities are based on the challenge...

This ASE interactive animation looks at materials and their properties and forces and how they are applied to a real life situation. It requires children to choose aspects of trainers that will keep Mr. Zippy's feet dry and help him to run fast. The students then design their own trainer on screen using 'drag and...

This task consists of three activities and provides students with the opportunity to explore the use of mathematics in a travel and tourism context. Students adopt the role of newly-appointed managers at a travel company and are required to plan a tour of the UK, choosing the destinations, transport and...

This Nuffield Pathways Through Science module was presented in four episodes covering the topics of genetics and evolution, and related issues:
Ne 1: Variety
Ne 2: Inheritance
Ne 3: New forms of life
Ne 4: Issues

This book, published in 1983, contains chapters commissioned by UNESCO and supplemented by material from a meeting of experts on the Incorporation of Science and Technology in the Primary School Curriculum, held in Paris in June 1980. It was aimed at teachers, teacher educators, science curriculum development and...

In this podcast from the Planet Earth Online collection and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Richard Hollingham hears how the underwater world isn't the soundless place often imagined. From chirping, gurgling and snapping sounds from busy coral reefs to clicking sperm whales, scientists are finding...

The Nuffield Advanced Physics Handbook for Teachers was published by the Nuffield Foundation in 1994 to help teachers manage the redrafted version of the Nuffield Advanced Physics syllabus examined for the first time in 1996. It showed teachers how to use the publications for ...

The revised edition of the Nuffield Advanced Science Book of Data was based on the first edition. However there were many changes because of feedback from users, changes in syllabuses, and the availability of better sources of data. The content was changed.

Conversion tables and tables of mathematical...

Most of the Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences Physics 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 physics worksheets at the start of the physics section of the upgrade file.

Most of the...

The Nuffield National Curriculum Mathematics stage five book was split into the same three sections as the previous stages’ books. Each section is divided into chapters giving relevant information and presenting activities to do and questions to answer.

The 13 chapters on Number and algebra ...

The second Student Workbook for Nuffield Physical Science began with an extensive introduction to this novel course for students. The Workbook was not designed as a textbook.

The content of each section was arranged on the same plan, and each contained four types of material: 'Introduction', passages of '...

The Nuffield Science for Key Stage Three course materials for Year Seven were planned as an integrated science course.

The topics

Topic A Being a scientist

Topic B Senses

Topic C Measuring

Topic D Solar System

Topic E Forces

Topic F Elements and...

There are nine units, all at level four, in this book from the Nuffield National Curriculum Mathematics series. Each unit provides information for the student to read and questions and activities for them to do.

The units, which are in short sections, have detailed content descriptions at the top of each...

In this podcast from the Planet Earth Online collection and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Richard Hollingham talks to Professor Meric Srokosz from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton about a new European Space Agency satellite, which was due to be launched on 2 November 2009. 

...