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Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences: Teachers’ Guide for Chemistry
The contents of the Chemistry 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.
Contents of both editions
Introduction to Chemistry
Topic C1: Raw materials
Chapter C1: The elements of chemistry
Chapter C2: Petrochemicals
Chapter C3: Chemicals from plants
Chapter C4: Chemicals and rocks
Topic C2: Materials in use
Chapter C5: Materials and structures
Chapter C6: Glasses and ceramics
Chapter C7: Metals and alloys
Chapter C8: Polymers
Topic C3: Chemicals in our homes
Chapter C9: Foams, emulsions, sols and gels
Chapter C10: Keeping clean
Chapter C11: Dyes and dyeing
Chapter C12: Chemicals in the medicine cupboard
Topic C4: Energy changes in chemistry
Chapter C13: Fuels and fires
Chapter C14: Batteries
Topic C5: Soil and agriculture
Chapter C15: Soil
Chapter C16: Fertilizers
Topic C6: The Periodic Table, atoms and bonding
Chapter C17: The Periodic Table
Chapter C18: Atoms and bonding
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