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…
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…
Working with Wood, Stages One and Two
The Science 5/13 unit for teachers Working with wood stages one and two contains suggestions for practical activity relating to wood. It includes comment on ways of starting work, suggestions for children's activities and guidance about the materials they might use. It aims to show how working with a familiar material can contribute…
Coloured Things, Stages One and Two
This Science 5/13 unit for teachers Coloured things stages one and two provides suggestions for children's activities some of which relate directly to colour itself whilst others use an interest in coloured things as a springboard to other areas of investigation. Each chapter has an environmental theme rich in starting points…
Children and Plastics, Stages One and Two and Background
This Science 5/13 unit for teachers Plastics for stages one and two is concerned with children’s exploration of the man-made plastics in the world around. It is not concerned with the chemistry or the production of plastics but with the variety and uses of plastics. The unit falls into two main sections. The first section suggests…