Power Station Project
The Power Station Project is a simulated case study from the Science in Society series dealing with the various decisions that have to be made when a new power station is being planned. It was designed as an integral part of the Energy section of the Science in Society course. It is assumed that an Electricity Generating Board is…
Ginn Science: Year One Resource File
Ginn Science Year One Resource File for teachers was first published in 1988 and revised in 1995 to accommodate the 1995 National Curriculum in England and Wales. The revised file, of over 200 pages, contains full instructions for use of the materials provided to support science throughout Year One in England or Primary Two in Scotland…
10. Electronics of Control Systems
This Association for Science Education (ASE) publication about the Electronics of Controls Systems was developed in association with Marconi. At the time, the company was in the front rank of the world's defence electronics industry. Its wide range of activities also included space systems and computer-based and sonar underwater…
Sky and Space
The Learning Through Science teachers’ guides and pupils’ assignment cards for the unit on Sky and Space give suggestions for activities children could undertake. The cards are divided into groups according to their subject, such as stars, planets, the weather, space, etc. On the cards the grouping is denoted by a symbol.…
Colour
The Learning Through Science teachers’ guides and pupils’ assignment Cards for the unit on Colour give suggestions for activities children could undertake. The cards are divided into groups according to their subject: art and colour, looking at colour, colour and ourselves, chemistry and colour, and colour in the environment.…
SATIS General Guide for Teachers
The SATIS 'General Guide for Teachers' is a booklet which complements the Teachers' Notes published with the individual SATIS units. It gives more general information about the proejct, about some of the teaching methods, and about other ways of introducing social and technological aspects into the secondary science…
Nuffield Science 11 to 13: Year 2
The second year of the Nuffield 11-13 course is divided into more traditional units geared towards an understanding of science in everyday life, and in its relation to society. The title ‘How science is used’ for the second year book conveys both the continuity and change. A concern for processes maintains the continuity…
Nuffield Science 11 to 13: Year 1
The Nuffield 11 to 13 project provided a book for students and a Teachers’ Guide for each year of the course together with a file of Worksheets. The student books were not conventional textbooks. Less space than usual was given to exposition and factual information. The main aim was to generate interest using case studies to…
Science In a Social CONtext: Teachers' Guide
The SISCON teachers guide gives planning help and suggested approaches to each of the units. It includes sample questions, references for further study, suggestions for field trips, experiments and discussion questions. The chapters in this book are: *Planning details - Who is the course designed for?, How much time is needed…