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…
Learning Through Science
Learning Through Science was a project initially sponsored by the Schools Council and the Scottish Education Department. Later it came under the aegis of the School Curriculum Development Committee. Its aims were to help teachers of children between the ages of eight and thirteen to learn science through first-hand experience using…
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…