The Nuffield Foundation began supporting design and technology in 1990 by establishing the Nuffield Design and Technology Project. The project's approach focused on 'combining the intellectual with the practical'. A wide range of curriculum materials were produced that work well in the classroom. This collection...

First published in 1991, Nuffield Secondary Mathematics was a major curriculum development project which, under the directorship of Dr. Kath Hart, provided materials designed to improve all students' understanding of mathematics.

The project was forward-thinking as it put investigative work and thinking...

The Topic books in the Nuffield Secondary Mathematics scheme were number, space, time, measurement, logic and algebra, probability and statistics.

In each topic area, a carefully planned sequence of books enabled a...

Nuffield Secondary Science in the 1960s was a response to the need to improve the teaching of science for the three-quarters of secondary students who were then unlikely to be entered for GCE O-level. The project team aimed to put into practice the approach to science teaching outlined in the Newsom Report,...

The Nuffield Secondary Science Apparatus Guide was produced to help teachers and teachers and technicians with the many new practical activities introduced by the project.

Section A This section lists the apparatus, chemicals and materials needed for the fields of study in each of the eight...

The Nuffield Secondary Science project devised, and trialled, material that was flexible and capable of adaptation so that teachers could draw on the ideas to devise courses suitable for their own students. The material was organised into eight themes. The rationale for...

The Schools Council initiated this evaluation of Nuffield Secondary Science at the point when school trials of the materials were largely complete. As a result the evaluation focussed on the early adoption of the project by schools.

Nuffield Secondary Science carried out the ‘bold experimentation’ necessary to devise a new curriculum for the majority of students in secondary schools that the Newsom Report, Half Our Future had called for in 1963.

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Most of the publications produced by the Nuffield Secondary Science project were designed to provide ideas for teachers. The detailed guidance was intended to help teachers to plan and implement science courses for the three-quarters of young people in secondary schools that would not take O-level.

The books...

This Nuffield Secondary Science theme suggests ways to help students arrive at an understanding of aspects of interdependence, and an appreciation of the importance of animal and plant conservation. The laboratory investigations develop from problems identified during...

This Nuffield Secondary Science theme deals with the continuity of life, not only in the short term from generation to generation, but also in the long term, when the cumulative picture of many generations appears to indicate an evolution. As a result, the theme includes two very important concepts related to...

The summary in the teachers’ guide for Nuffield Secondary Science states that when studying this theme, students learn by asking questions and seeking answers to questions about themselves in particular and about mankind in general.

The Nuffield Secondary Science theme suggests a wide range of experiences and investigations from which the idea of energy conservation can gradually emerge. The resources, like other 1960s Nuffield programmes, describe energy changes in terms of energy conversions from...

This Nuffield Secondary Science theme explores the devices that can be used to extend the range of sensitivity of the human senses.

Areas for investigation
The information in the theme book...

This Nuffield Secondary Science theme is designed to develop an understanding of the extent to which a few physical principles underlie the wide range of phenomena encompassed by the idea of movement in the modern world.