LAMP Topic Brief 10: Flight
This topic brief was published as part of the ASE’s LAMP Project. The brief was developed for third year pupils following a Nuffield Secondary Science course. It was later trialled in a variety of secondary schools with students of average and below average ability in the 13 to 16 age range. Aims 1. To develop an understanding…
LAMP Topic Brief 1: Fuels
This topic brief was published as part of the ASE’s LAMP Project. The brief was developed for third year pupils following a Nuffield Secondary Science course. It was later trialled in a variety of secondary schools with students of average and below average ability in the 13 to 16 age range. Aims 1. To develop an understanding…
Teacher's Handbook
The Advanced Physics Project for Independent Learning (APPIL) published this Teacher's Handbook to set out the overall picture of the APPIL project and explain its aims and objectives. It is a starting point for teachers and technicians who wish to adopt the course and gives the structure of the course and its relevance to the…
The Physics of Heat Capacity
Part of the Macmillan Monographs in the Physical Sciences series, The Physics of Heat Capacity includes chapters on the heat capacities of gases and solids, and ideas for experimental projects. Chapter 1, on the heat capacities of gases looks at the kinetic theory of gases, thermodynamics and equipartition of energy. The chapter…
Forming a Rhythm Band
This resource uses Cuisenaire® Rods to investigate how to make different sounds by putting the differently coloured rods into a can and shaking them. Children are then asked to create notes for the different coloured rods and use these to write and perform their own songs. Cuisenaire® Rods are a useful mathematical resource…
Changing Rod Stories to Number Sentences
This resource uses Cuisenaire® Rods to create addition stories. Select one rod and the two rods that when positioned side by side are the same length as the original. Then use the white rods which represent 1 to convert the rod story into an addition sentence. Included are teachers' notes and a worksheet to practise converting…
Interpreting One-colour Trains as Fractional Parts
In this resource children are asked to build all of the possible one-colour trains to match the purple rod. Fitting them underneath they then resemble a fraction wall where children can describe the fractional parts of the whole purple rod. They then investigate the other coloured rods and their fractional parts, for example halves…
Recording Subtraction Stories
In this resource, children are asked to create subtractions using different coloured rods and interpret and solve subtraction sentences. Following this they form all of the possible addition and subtraction sentences for three given rods. This activity is a way of introducing or reinforcing subtraction using a concrete, visual representation.…
Colouring All the Trains
In this resource, children are asked to investigate the number of possible trains they can make for a given colour of rod. They then record this information and see if they can find any patterns. It helps develop the skills of logical thinking, looking for patterns and the systematic recording of results. It could be used as a whole…
A New Chemistry
This book was written for chemistry students from the age of 11 to 16. Some of the subject matter would currently be appropriate for Advanced Level Chemistry students. The text is divided into chapters, describing the key concepts. There are end-of-chapter questions to test comprehension, and example exam questions related to…
High Polymers
Part of the Chemistry in Industry series, High Polymers was designed as a source-book for science teachers. Contents: Chapter 1: • Polymerization of monomers through addition, condensation, and copolymerisation • The structure and properties of polymers Chapter 2: • Plastics, including: cellulose-based plastics •…
Fuels, Explosives and Dyestuffs
Part of the Chemistry in Industry series, Fuels, Explosives and Dyestuffs is designed as source-book for science teachers. Chapter 2, on fuels, covers: • The origin and nature of fossil fuels • The properties of fuels that are commercially important • Solid fuels • Fluidised combustion • Air pollution •…
Food and Drugs
This book is the fourth in the series of Chemistry in Industry. The text focuses on how food can be produced and preserved by chemical means; crop protection through the use of fungicides, herbicides and insecticides; the use of pain killers – anaesthetics and analgesics; and how drugs can be used to fight infection. Chapter…
Electronics and A. C.
Electronics and A.C. is one of the titles in the series of ASE Lab Books that were published in the early 1970s for the Association for Science Education. Each title 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. Contents Low…
Electric Currents
This book, from the Longman Physics series, looks at electric currents. The contents include: • the heating effects of current, with examples such as electric bar fires and hot plates • the history of electric lighting and types of filament lamps • the magnetic effects of current flow • the chemical…
Plant Protein Foods
This book, from Unilever, was produced in the context of the availability of proteinaceous foods and world nutritional requirements. A table of foods with percentage content of protein, fat and carbohydrate is provided – together with a breakdown of the comparative animal/vegetable protein consumption by continent. There is…
Chemical Engineering
This book, from Unilever, focuses on the science of industrial processes. The book begins with the example of the manufacture of coconut monoethanolamide – a material which stabilises foam in surface active systems, to discuss the common unit operations of mixing, pumping, filtering, evaporation, distillation and absorption. The…
Micronutrients
This book from Unilever looks at vitamins and trace elements and their role in the body. Diagrams of the chemical composition of these micronutrients are given, including photos of three dimensional molecular models. The contents are: Fat-soluble vitamins: - Vitamin A - Vitamin D - Vitamin E - Vitamin K The water-soluble…
Applications of Synthetic Methods in Organic Chemistry
Applications of Synthetic Methods in Organic Chemistry was one of five Macmillan Monographs in the Physical Sciences that were published in the early 1970s. The book was written for a student who has studied organic chemistry and has some familiarity with the chemistry of the main functional groups in aliphatic molecules. Methods…
Energy Levels in Chemistry
Energy Levels in Chemistry was one of five Macmillan Monographs in the Physical Sciences that were published in the early 1970s. This book is concerned with the molecular model, and with how this model can be developed in an elegant and coherent way to relate the energy levels of a molecule to the energy changes of a system. Contents 1.…
Electrochemistry
Electrochemistry was one of five Macmillan Monographs in the Physical Sciences that were published in the early 1970s. The topics discussed in the monograph were divided into two main groups: • Electrical conduction of electrolytes in aqueous solution • Electron transfer processes Contents 1. The conduction of electricity…
The Principles of Radiochemistry
The Principles of Radiochemistry was one of five Macmillan Monographs in the Physical Sciences that were published in the early 1970s. The purpose of this book was to introduce the principles of radiochemistry to sixth form and first year university students. Emphasis was placed on the principles and the mathematics was been kept…
Relativity
Relativity was one of five Macmillan Monographs in the Physical Sciences that were published in the early 1970s. The book was intended as an introduction to the subject both for sixth forms in schools and for university students. Exercises were included in the text to illuminate important points of the discussion. In addition the…
Nuffield Maths: Bronto Books Set D
Nuffield Foundation provide these resources from the Nuffield Maths 5-11 project, which allow students the opportunity to practice using and reading simple mathematical vocabulary. They support, as well as extend, the basic mathematical concepts introduced to young children. The image of Bronto at the foot of some pages provides…
Nuffield Maths: Bronto Books Set C
Nuffield Foundation provide these resources from the Nuffield Maths 5-11 project, which allow students the opportunity to practice using and reading simple mathematical vocabulary. They support, as well as extend, the basic mathematical concepts introduced to young children. The image of Bronto at the foot of some pages provides…
Nuffield Maths: Bronto Books Set B
Nuffield Foundation provide these resources from the Nuffield Maths 5-11 project, which allow students the opportunity to practice using and reading simple mathematical vocabulary. They support, as well as extend, the basic mathematical concepts introduced to young children. The image of Bronto at the foot of some pages provides…
Nuffield Maths: Bronto Books Set A
Nuffield Foundation provide these resources from the Nuffield Maths 5-11 project, which allow students the opportunity to practice using and reading simple mathematical vocabulary. They support, as well as extend, the basic mathematical concepts introduced to young children. The image of Bronto at the foot of some pages provides…
Supersonic Flight
This book looks at supersonic flight. The shock boundary caused by the abrupt change in pressure is explained with the aid of a diagram. The development of supersonic aircraft is explored, with a look at the overall efficiency of supersonic flight compared to subsonic flight. The effect of kinetic heating from air molecules…
Science Teaching For Rosla
In response to the raising of the school leaving age from 15 to 16 in 1972, Bath University and the British Petroleum Company collaborated with a group of experienced Heads of Department from comprehensive schools to produce this bank of ideas for investigations which would be suitable for the students affected by this change. It…
The Polyethylene Twins
This booklet provides information about the discovery and production of low density and high density polyethylene. The properties of the two thermoplastics are compared and diagrams illustrate the process of polymerisation and the structure of each plastic, with a description of how high density polyethylene can be moulded into rigid…
Petroleum Chemicals
This handbook, published by BP Educational Service, was developed to provide an introduction to the petrochemicals industry for advanced level chemistry courses. It describes industrial processes including the hydration of ethane to ethanol, the production of phenylethene and the cracking of hydrocarbons to produce alkenes. The derivatives…
Industry at Work: a Case Study of the Acetic Acid Process
This book, published by the BP Education Service provides students with information about the manufacture of acetic acid and an understanding of the chemical industry and its role in society. The authors chose acetic acid because the chemistry of this substance was likely to be familiar to students. The methods used to produce…
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