Decisions in the Science Department: Organization and Curriculum
This book, first published in 1981 by the Association for Science Education (ASE) and Schools Council, looks at the range of decisions that staff in science departments are required to make and the problems associated with making them. This report was the output of the Science Education Project set up after the report Case studies…
Using Constructional Materials
Produced by the Schools Council, this book is part of the Schools Council Art and Craft Education 8-13 project and takes a fresh look at all aspects of craft teaching. The book deals specifically with materials that can be used and stresses that education must familiarise children with those materials that make up their daily environment. •…
Technology and the Schools: Schools Council Working Paper No. 18
This resource is a working paper on the pilot study report of the Schools Council Project Technology. The pilot study was commissioned by the Council in 1966/67 to find out how help could be offered to schools wishing to reflect in their curriculum the increasing importance of technology in our society. The paper is in three parts: Part…
Project in Technology
This resource from the Schools Council consists of a paper in support of the address by the Director of the Project to the Association for Science Education in November 1967. Convinced that several independent but parallel forces have made the time ripe for curriculum reform, and after a feasibility study during the academic year…
Starting from Rocks
Starting from Rocks was one of four books published by the Schools Council Environmental Studies Project to illustrate a recommended approach for working with students in the 5 to 13 age range. The approach had, as one of its aims, the development by children of a variety of methods of examining and representing the features they…
Geology in the School Curriculum
Geology in the School Curriculum was a report of the Schools Council Geology Curriculum Review Group, published in 1977. The report aimed to fulfil two roles. Firstly, its discursive sections were intended to support the recommendations put by the Geology Curriculum Review Group to the Schools Council. Secondly, it was hoped that…
Processes and Products of Science Teaching
This resource is the final report from the project for the Evaluation of Science Teaching Methods, sponsored by the Schools Council. The project was based at the University of Leicester School of Education from 1970 to 1973. The objective of the research was to identify the processes of science teaching, and then to investigate…
Nuffield Secondary Science: An Evaluation
The Schools Council initiated this evaluation of Nuffield Secondary Science at the point when school trials of the materials were largely complete. As a result the evaluation focussed on the early adoption of the project by schools. Three aspects, which were thought to be characteristic of the project were chosen for study. They…
Science for the Young School Leaver
Science for the Young School Leaver was one of a series of informal publications by the Schools Council. Schools Council Working Paper Number 1 started a series to make widely available information about curriculum development projects while still in their formative stages. Working Paper No. 1 was produced for the Nuffield Foundation…
From Counting to Calculating
From Counting to Calculating, part of the Mathematics for the Majority series produced by The Schools Council Project in Secondary School Mathematics, is aimed at expanding teachers’ knowledge about the use of number in calculations in order to pass on this understanding to higher secondary students within their lessons. This…
Number Appreciation
Number Appreciation, part of the Mathematics for the Majority series produced by The Schools Council Project in Secondary School Mathematics, is aimed at expanding teachers’ knowledge about the number system in order to pass on this understanding to higher secondary students within their lessons. This book compliments From…
Mathematics From Outdoors
Mathematics From Outdoors, part of the Mathematics for the Majority series produced by The Schools Council Project in Secondary School Mathematics, is aimed at expanding teachers’ knowledge and is designed to help teachers to develop classroom activities that will interest students and enable them to link the mathematics they…
Machines, Mechanisms and Mathematics
Machines, Mechanisms and Mathematics, part of the Mathematics for the Majority series produced by The Schools Council Project in Secondary School Mathematics, is aimed at expanding teachers’ knowledge, and is written in the belief that much of mathematics has been developed to solve practical problems. Many practical applications…
Luck and Judgement
Luck and Judgement, part of the Mathematics for the Majority series produced by The Schools Council Project in Secondary School Mathematics, is aimed at expanding teachers’ knowledge, concentrating upon a practical approach to the teaching of probability and statistics. The book has two parts, the first concentrating upon…
Crossing Subject Boundaries
Crossing Subject Boundaries, part of the Mathematics for the Majority series produced by The Schools Council Project in Secondary School Mathematics, is a book aimed at teachers, encouraging collaboration across different subject areas. Each chapter focuses upon a different area of the curriculum and describes aspects of mathematics…
Schools Council Project in Applied Science and Technology
From the Schools Council, this archive document describes the results of a pilot study into the impact of technology in schools during the late 1960's. In attempting to clarify the position of technology in the schools, this report considered three fundamental questions: • What is Technology? • Should it be introduced…
Schools Council Working Paper No.18
Produced as part of the Schools Council Project, this archive document looks at how schools were responding to the advent of new technologies and scientific developments in the late 1960's. Project Technology was set up by the Schools Council to design and test teaching materials for schools wishing to include work in science…
Reading for Learning in the Sciences
Reading for Learning in the Sciences (1984), from the Schools Council, was a source of practical help for teachers that was designed to promote more effective learning from the written word. The book covered the place of reading in science education, the distinctive nature of science texts and the range of reading and study activities…
The Mathematics Curriculum: from Graphs to Calculus
This book first published in 1977 is about graphs, their drawing, their interpretation, their development and their use. It discusses the teaching of graphs from their early introduction and as far as the beginnings of integral and differential calculus. The book also places the teaching of graphs in an historical context as it reviews…
The Continuing Mathematics Project: a Case Study
This report gives a fairly full account of the origins and life of the Continuing Mathematics Project (CMP), together with details of what materials were produced and how it was developed and tested in schools. In addition to a discussion of the way in which a variety of institutions used the materials, four tutors contributed a…
Assignment Systems
This Schools Council publication addresses assignment cards and how they can play an important part in mathematics teaching. The book discusses methods of preparing them and gives numerous examples. Topics as diverse as the Binary system, punched card matrices, vectors and topology feature as do geometrical and statistical assignments.…
Children Learning Mathematics - a Teacher's Guide to Recent Research
The Low Attainers in Mathematics Project has two aims; to bring to the notice of teachers the current knowledge about learning processes in mathematics which resulted in the writing of this book and to provide information to teachers and advisers about the ways in which primary, middle and secondary schools deal with students who…
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: Patterns of Reproduction, Development and Growth
This Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) topic book was written to accompany the first of the SCISP students’ manuals. The book was designed to show how some scientific patterns first began to emerge and how they were altered slowly as more knowledge was gained. Contents • Living things multiply •…
The Mathematics Curriculum: Counting and Configurations
This Mathematics Curriculum book, first published in 1978, examines 'combinatorics', a new term at the time that needed definition. Two aspects were considered, the first being permutations and combinations and the second being a possible set-up (or configuration) and asking if examples of such configurations exist and…
The Mathematics Curriculum: Mathematics Across the Curriculum
This Mathematics Curriculum book, first published in 1977, intended to act as an aid and catalyst in co-operation between teachers of mathematics and teachers of other subjects which use mathematics. It looks at areas of applied mathematics that demonstrate its usefulness and are of genuine interest to other subject areas. A knowledge…
The Mathematics Curriculum: Algebra
This Mathematics Curriculum book, first published in 1978, begins by giving a short account of what 'algebra' means, to inform those readers whose mathematical training did not take in the most recently included topics of school syllabuses, and to refresh the memories of those who were exposed to these ideas. Objectives…
The Mathematics Curriculum: Geometry
This Mathematics Curriculum book, first published in 1977, put the teaching of geometry in the historical context of the time. In particular, the author sets out to show that the introduction of modern transformation geometry does not rule out the teaching of the more traditional Euclidean-type proofs, and indicates some of the many…
The Mathematics Curriculum: Number
This Mathematics Curriculum book was first published in 1978 in a response to the many changes in the mathematics curriculum and resources available. It was intended to help teachers make sense of the changes and choose appropriate resources. The book provides a historical context for mathematics education at the time as it reviews…
SCISP Topic Book: Human Groups
This Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) topic book was written to accompany the fourth of the SCISP students’ manuals. Contents • The study of groups • The ecology of groups • Integrated science and social science
SCISP Topic Book: Man and the Urban Environment
This Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) topic book was written to accompany the fourth of the SCISP students’ manuals. Contents • Introduction • The natural environment: rural and urban life • The urban environment • Making decisions • Further reading
SCISP Topic Book: Earth Patterns
This Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) topic book was written to accompany the fourth of the SCISP students’ manuals. Contents • Introduction • Earth patterns in areas of stable continental crust • Patterns of Earth history in areas of mobile continental crust • Earth patterns…