SCISP Teachers’ Guide 2: Interactions and Building Blocks
This teachers' guide continued introduction to the Integrated Science Project's concepts of pattern and problem. This approach covered qualitative and quantitative generalisations, and used patterns to solve problems. The problems were both practical and theoretical, everyday and laboratory. The importance of science to…
SCISP Topic Book: Science and Decision-making
This Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) topic book was written to accompany the second of the SCISP students’ manuals. This topic book was also used with the later parts of the scheme. Contents 1. The polythene story 2. The search for oil 3. The Park Hill story 4. A detergent story 5. The PVC story…
SCISP Topic Book: Chemical Formulae and Equations
This Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) topic book was written to accompany the first of the SCISP students’ manuals. Contents • The masses and relative atomic masses of atoms • The mole: an important base unit • Some experimental enquiries using the mole unit • Formulae of compounds…
SCISP Topic Book: The Importance of Patterns
This Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) topic book was written to accompany the first of the SCISP students’ manuals. Contents • What is a pattern? • Hard and soft water • Glass • Why plants and animals are as they are • The structure of crystals • The Sun, the Moon and…
SCISP Technicians’ Manual 4: Interactions and Change
The Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) technicians' manuals included classified lists of equipment, preparation guides, technical hints and lists of suppliers. The books were written to enable almost all school technicians to prepare for the Patterns lessons with as little help as possible from the teacher. Contents Classified…
SCISP Students’ Manual 4: Interactions and Change
The Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) manuals for students were not traditional textbooks. They included experiments, practical and theoretical problems, and information (such as photographs, data and extracts from books or newspapers) intended for use in problems and in class discussion. They also contained optional…
SCISP Teachers’ Guide 4: Interactions and Change
In the Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) course, the explanations of change used the concept of interaction under these headings: • Recognising change • A close look at a number of different changes • Stability Contents 1. Recognising change 2. Changes in behaviour 3. Changes in acidity 4.…
SCISP Technicians’ Manual 3: Energy
The Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) technicians' manuals included classified lists of equipment, preparation guides, technical hints and lists of suppliers. The books were written to enable almost all school technicians to prepare for the Patterns lessons with as little help as possible from the teacher. Contents Preface…
SCISP Technicians’ Manual 2: Interactions and Building Blocks
The Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) technicians' manuals included classified lists of equipment, preparation guides, technical hints and lists of suppliers. The books were written to enable almost all school technicians to prepare for the Patterns lessons with as little help as possible from the teacher. Contents Classified…
SCISP Technicians' Manual 1: Building Blocks
The Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) technicians' manuals included classified lists of equipment, preparation guides, technical hints and lists of suppliers. The books were written to enable almost all school technicians to prepare for the Patterns lessons with as little help as possible from the teacher. Contents Classified…
Periodicity and Atomic Structure
This booklet was written to support the Periodicity and Atomic Structure option in the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme Stage III: A Course of Options. The booklet starts with an account of atomic structure which is then related to the periodic table and leads on to a discussion of the periodicity of properties of the elements. Contents Part…
Nuffield Advanced Chemistry: Names and Formulae of Carbon Compounds
This Nuffield Advanced Chemistry programmed text was devised as an introduction to organic nomenclature at a time when the use of systematic IUPAC names in schools was new. This programme was intended for use as an aid to introducing organic chemistry, either as preliminary work before starting Topic 9 or during the early stages…
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Nuffield Advanced Chemistry: Ethanol and Other Alcohols
This Nuffield Advanced Chemistry programmed text was devised as an introduction to organic chemistry. It was offered as an alternative treatment to part of Topic 9 of the basic course. The optional work in Part two of the programme includes useful background work for parts of Topic 13, and elementary ideas on reaction mechanism.…
Nuffield Advanced Chemistry: Examinations and Assessment
The Nuffield Chemistry team worked with the then London Board to develop new styles of assessment to support new approaches to teaching and learning in science first at O-level and then at A-level. Many of the approaches adopted in the 1960s have stood the test of time with the common use of a mixture of fixed response, structured…
Nuffield Advanced Chemistry: The Chemist in Action
The Chemist in Action was designed to give students a more complete picture of the work of the technologist in a number of carefully selected areas than could be provided in the Student Books. In particular its aims were: • to provide examples in the modern chemical industry of the application of basic chemical principles encountered…
Nuffield Advanced Chemistry: Topics 13 to 19
The Nuffield Advanced Chemistry students’ books were not intended to be conventional textbooks, or background books, or books of data. The books were deliberately left in many ways incomplete. The aim was to provide students with a series of starting points from which to explore the chemistry at advanced level. Students were…
Nuffield Advanced Chemistry: Topics 1 to 12
The Nuffield Advanced Chemistry students’ books were not intended to be conventional textbooks, or background books, or books of data. The books were deliberately left in many ways incomplete. The aim was to provide students with a series of starting points from which to explore the chemistry at advanced level. Students were…
Nuffield Advanced Science: Book of Data (First Edition)
This Nuffield Advanced Science Book of Data was a compilation of basic physical data in SI units for use during the Nuffield Advanced courses in Physics, Physical Science, and Chemistry. The book included all the data required specifically for the Nuffield programmes but the book was deliberately not tied too closely to the requirements…
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Option 10: Historical Topics
The purposes of this Revised Nuffield Chemistry option were to review the historical development of a field of chemistry with special reference to its applied and social aspects; to study the life and work of one or more famous scientists working in the field; to create an interest in the original writings of scientists; and to carry…
Option 9: Analysis With a Purpose
This Revised Nuffield Chemistry option suggested the use of paper, column and thin-layer chromatography to analyse inks, food colours and coins. Quantitative work was based on the analysis of vitamin C in foods. Contents 1. Chromatography 2. The determination of vitamin C in food 3. Analysis now
Option 8: The Chemical Industry
Teachers and students had considerable freedom in their response to this Revised Nuffield Chemistry option because under O-level regulations it was teacher assessed. Practical work was based on a ‘real’ industrial process from the fine chemicals industry. Contents 1. The development of an industrial process 2. The…
Option 7: Periodicity, Atomic Structure and Bonding
This Revised Nuffield Option aimed to help students see their experience of elements and compounds in a more unified and coherent theoretical framework. The treatment was based on experiment but emphasised theory. Contents 1. Periodicity 2. Atomic structure 3. Bonding 4. Groups in the Periodic Table
Option 6: Change and Decay
In this Revised Nuffield Chemistry option, ideas about proton and electron transfer were used to explain the decay of stonework and the corrosion of metals. Practical investigations explored the physical and chemical changes that can lead to the breakdown of stone as well as the factors that determine the rate of corrosion.
Option 5: Plastics
This revised Nuffield Chemistry option began with everyday plastics and sought to demonstrate, measure and explain their properties. Thermoplastics were distinguished from thermosets and the differences explained in terms of the structure and bonding of polymers. A historical section showed how natural materials can be modified to…
Option 4: Metals and Alloys
This Revised Nuffield Chemistry option dealt with physical metallurgy, It related important engineering properties of metals to their structures. Practical work includes casting metals, tensile testing and heat treatment. Contents 1. Metals are crystalline 2. How do metal crystals form? 3. Metallography 4. Casting 5. Atomic…
Option 3: Drugs and Medicines
This was a new option for Revised Nuffield Chemistry. Preparative practical work included the production of chloroform and aspirin as well as the extraction of caffeine from tea. Analytical practical work included titrations and applications of TLC. Contents 1. Drugs from natural sources 2. Anaesthesia and conquest of pain 3.…
Option 2: Colloids
Experimental work in this Revised Nuffield Chemistry option explored the characteristic properties of different types of colloid. The everyday importance of colloids was emphasised and this included a section about cosmetics. Contents 1. What is a colloid? 2. Sols and gels 3. What makes some sols more stable than others? 4.…
Option 1: Water
The first option of Revised Nuffield Chemistry explored the remarkable properties of water and sought to explain them in terms of the polarity of water molecules and hydrogen bonding. Experiments also investigated the properties of detergents and hardness of water. A further topic was the monitoring of water pollution. Contents 1.…
Revised Nuffield Chemistry Teachers’ Guide III
Revised Nuffield Chemistry Teachers’ Guide III provided a commentary to enable teachers to advise and supervise their students. Practical details, science explanations, background reading and questions was all included in the student booklets. Students taking the O-level examinations in Nuffield Chemistry were required to…
Chemists in the World
In Revised Nuffield Chemistry the book called Chemists in the World replaced many of the Stage II and Stage III Background Books from the first edition of the course. In their place the new text, which was largely edited from the old Background books, covered topics in the history of chemistry and modern chemical applications. The…
Revised Nuffield Chemistry: Handbook for Pupils
The Handbook for Pupils was one of the main innovations of Revised Nuffield Chemistry. It was written in response to the many requests from teachers for more support for students in the form of a textbook. The book was in three main parts. The first part covered chemical concepts from periodicity to structure. This part featured…
Revised Nuffield Chemistry: Experiment Sheets II
The Laboratory Investigation sheets for Stage II of the first edition of Nuffield Chemistry were revised and republished as a single set of Experiment Sheets for Stage II in the second edition. The sheets give instructions to students for experiments 41-126 in the revised programme. Some of the experiments feature in both of…