Idea Book for Cuisenaire® Rods
This collection of resources provided by ETA hand2mind is a selection of activities from Idea Book for Cuisenaire® Rods, using Cuisenaire® Rods to teach skills and concepts within mathematics. Cuisenaire® Rods are a useful mathematical resource which provides a concrete visual representation as a bridge to developing…
Macmillan Monographs in the Physical Sciences
The Macmillan Monographs in the Physical Sciences were published in the early 1970s. The initial plan was to have an extensive series of titles as an alternative to comprehensive textbooks in physics and chemistry. In the end, only five of the titles were published. The published books were pitched at a level which provided a challenge…
Studies in Biology
These archive materials were produced by the Institute of Biology during the late 1960's until the early 1980's. Over 100 booklets look in detail at different aspects of biology. They describe the trends and developments taking place at the time of writing. Whilst some of the ideas have been superceded, much of the content…
Chemistry in Industry
Peter Tooley was a teacher with a particular interest in the chemical industry. In the 1970s, he wrote a series of booklets describing some of the main areas of the work of the industry. He complemented this series with two booklets suggesting related practical work suitable for post-16 students in schools and colleges.
Nuffield Maths 5-11
Nuffield Foundation provide these resources from the Nuffield Maths 5-11 project, which was originally based on the Nuffield Mathematics Teaching Project, developed in the 1960s. The initial project produced only guidance for teachers, parents and teacher trainers, but was subsequently reviewed and extended, following requests from…
ASE Lab Books
The ASE Lab Books were published in the early 1970s for the Association for Science Education by John Murray. Each title in the series covered one or two topics and brought together the best of the teaching notes and experimental ideas from members of the association that had appeared in the ASE journal, School Science Review. Titles…
Nuffield Mathematics Teaching Project
The Nuffield Mathematics Teaching Project produced a series of twenty modules aimed at supporting the teaching of topics in mathematics which in the project team’s view students found difficult. The modules were aimed at students aged 11 and 12 in the first two years of secondary education. Some of the ideas and content would…
ICI Sixth Form Topics for Schools
The resources in this collection were published by the chemical company ICI between 1971 and 1982. The booklets were the result of a series of workshops at which contributors from industry and schools collaborated to produce a collection of up-to-date materials, written at the right level and directly useful in the teaching of sixth…
Science Teacher Education Project
From 1970, the Science Teacher Education Project (STEP) was supported by the Nuffield Foundation to enable groups of tutors to cooperate in devising and trying out materials that would contribute to the improvement of professional training. In three years the project produced the publications listed below. STEP was a response…
Integrated Science - the Wreake Valley Project
Integrated Science, from the Wreake Vally Academy, is a series of three books designed to support science teaching of students aged 11-14. The books were published in 1976 well before the introduction of the National Curriculum for science. In many ways it heralded the National Curriculum by providing a balanced science curriculum…
Keys to Chemistry
The student books and teacher books in the Keys to Chemistry series were written by Graham Hill and published in the 1970s. The series explained chemistry for students aged 11–16. Each student book was accompanied by a book for teachers (not available here). Book 1 covered the chemistry in an introductory secondary school…
Science in a Topic
Science in a Topic comprises nine books for students and a teacher’s guide to the series, published by Hulton Educational Publications between 1973 and 1985. Science in a Topic was developed to encourage and help teachers to include a first-hand experience which embraces the skills, processes and methods of scientists within…
Mathematics for the Majority
The Schools Council Project in Secondary School Mathematics (renamed Mathematics for the Majority) was set up to help teachers construct courses for students of average and below-average ability that related mathematics to their experience and provided them with some insight into the processes that lie behind the use of mathematics…
Longman Physics Topics
The Longman Physics Topics series was written to provide background material for physics courses that were modern in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The authors were closely associated with the Nuffield Physics Project, and had an intimate knowledge of the spirit of that course. The books were not intended to be textbooks so they…
Continuing Mathematics Project
The Continuing Mathematics Project (CMP), published by Longman in the 1970s, was conceived as a response to the problem of insufficiently numerate students who were studying beyond '0' level. The Dainton Report recommended that " ... normally all pupils should study mathematics until they leave school ...".…
Teaching Primary Science
The project Teaching Primary Science was sponsored jointly by the Nuffield Foundation and the Social Science Research Council, between 1970 and 1975. It produced ten books published by Macdonald Educational between 1975 and 1978. These included an introduction and guide to the series and nine books on various topics chosen to build…
LAMP Project
The LAMP Project was sponsored by the Association for Science Education. The aim was to consider the teaching of science to Less Academically Motivated Pupils in secondary schools, with particular regard to the 14 to 16 age range. The need for the project was brought sharply into focus by the raising of the school leaving age. Rationale At…
The Mathematics Curriculum
This collection was produced by the Schools Council Project: The Mathematics Curriculum - A Critical Review. The Project was initiated by the Mathematics Committee of the Schools Council as a result of letters having been received from teachers asking for guidance on the vast amount of new mathematical literature which had been produced…
Leapfrogs Network
Network is a series of books from Leapfrogs which were intended for middle and secondary schools. In content they are less restricting than a simple workcard and may be seen as a source of additional interesting material for class use. There are three groups of books available: Action books are each based on a theme and encourage…
Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP)
The Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) was developed to meet the needs of the able 13-16 year old student. The accompanying GCE O level assessment led to a double certification. The sample scheme of work was devised and published in the early 1970s on the assumption that an average of one-fifth of a school's…
Nuffield Advanced Science: Book of Data
The Nuffield Advanced Science project published a Book of Data. This was designed for reference during the physical science, chemistry and physics courses. This book was intensively used during the physical science course and students had access to the data in all examinations. The book was also important to the chemistry course…
Nuffield Advanced Science: Biology
The materials produced by the Nuffield Foundations' Advanced Biological Science Project did not represent a rigid syllabus. They were devised after careful evaluation of the results of extensive school trials so that they could be used in a variety of ways related to the different circumstances found in schools and the varied…
Revised Nuffield Physics
The Nuffield Physics course for students aged 11–16 was first published in 1966. The course was revised and republished in 1977 following extensive consultations with teachers and visits to see the course in action in schools. Feedback from the O-level examiners also informed the changes made to the programme. The approach The…
Nuffield Advanced Science: Physics
The organisers of Nuffield Advanced Physics set out to build a course that could reveal the structure of physics: the kinds of arguments physicist use, and the nature of the problems they tackle. The team wanted students to become more thoughtful. They pointed out that, in physics, the ability to think effectively depends on having…
Revised Nuffield Biology
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 by answering a questionnaire and some of the teachers and many of their…
Nuffield Advanced Science: Physical Science
The Nuffield Physical Science course explored the regions of common interest to physicists and chemists. The course focussed on the contributions that physics and chemistry make to the study of the structure and properties of materials. The physics topics explored the interlocking roles of matter, energy and radiation and while the…
Mathematics Basic Skills and Practice
This selection of books presented here and published by Longman is part of the prolific output of mathematics books written by K A Hesse to provide carefully graded examples for primary school students to practise computation and work through problems. In each of the series the books follow a similar pattern, starting with simple…
Alpha and Beta Mathematics
Alpha Mathematics and Beta Mathematics, first published by Schofield & Sims in the 1970s, were developed to provide a cohesive, progressively planned course which, when completed, would give students of junior and middle school age a broadly-based foundation in mathematics, deemed essential for future progress. Alpha Mathematics…
5/5- Publication year: 1970 - 1979
Progress in Learning Science (Match and Mismatch)
The Progress in Learning Science project was sponsored by the Schools Council, 1973-77. It produced materials for use in professional development courses in teaching science for primary and middle school teachers. The materials aimed to help teachers to gather and use information about the development of children’s scientific…
Science 5/13
The Science 5/13 project, 1967 to 1975, was sponsored by the Schools Council, the Nuffield Foundation and the Scottish Education Department. It was the first project to state explicitly what it was hoped children aged 5-13 would achieve through work in science. This was set out in the guidelines to Objectives for Children Learning…
Nuffield Working with Science
Nuffield Working with Science was developed in the 1970s to meet the needs of ‘the new sixth former’ in schools and colleges. The programme offered teachers a variety of resources as a basis for courses aimed at students staying on in education after the age of 16 for a one-year course. Students who used the materials,…
Nuffield Secondary Science
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, Half Our Future. This…