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.…
Science 5/13: a Formative Evaluation
A Formative Evaluation of the Science 5-13 project is a book of 128 pages, published by Macmillan education in 1975. It describes the evaluation which took place throughout the project and which fed information from trials into the revision of the Science 5/13 Units for teachers. It records the history, aims and procedures of the…
Science from Toys, Stages One and Two and Background
This Science 5/13 unit for teachers Science from toys stages one and two and background comprises a number of sections focused on particular toy. In each section, sufficient background material is given so that teachers can see where suggested lines of development can lead, and immediate information is provided regarding the science…
Structures and Forces, Stage Three
The Science 5/13 unit Structures and forces stage three continues to study of structures and forces met in children’s daily experience as in Structures and Forces Stages One and Two. However, in stages one and two the forces met were always balanced and the structures in which they acted did not move. The stage three unit deals…
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…
Science for Children with Learning Difficulties
The Learning Through Science guide on Science for Children with Learning Difficulties was written for teachers of children in the age range 8 to 13 who are unable to manage learning tasks which are successfully completed by most of their peers. This followed the recommendation in the Warnock Committee report of 1978 that particular…
With Objectives in Mind
The Science 5/13 book With objectives in mind states the education convictions underpinning the project as being that: • In general, children work best when trying to find answers to problems that they have themselves chosen to investigate. • There problems are best drawn from their own environment and tackled largely…
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…
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…
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.…
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 •…
Learning Through Science: Formulating a School Policy, with an Index to Science 5/13
Formulating a school policy with an index to Science 5/13 was produced by the project Learning Though Science, which followed directly on the Science 5/13 project. It is in two parts, the first dealing with matters of school policy and organisation relating to science and the second comprising the index to the Science 5/13 units…
Science Resources for Primary and Middle Schools
This is learning Through Science Guide is about the resources needed to carry out science in primary and middle schools. The guide was primarily intended to help a school staff to assemble the resources that are needed for scientific explorations, but also of value to individual teachers. It describes the objects and materials that…
Electricity
The Learning Through Science teachers’ guides and pupils’ assignment cards for the unit Electricity give suggestions for activities children could undertake. This pack is different from other units in that the 24 cards are divided into three sequences of eight cards and within two of these sequences, Basic circuits and…
Learning Through Science: Student Teachers’ Pack
The Learning Through Science Student teachers’ pack serves as an introduction to the project’s materials and also constitutes a reduced pack which could support a number of short topics. It takes four of the 12 packs (see Teachers’ guide and Pupils’ assignment cards) and a selection of cards from each pack…
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…
Match and Mismatch: Raising Questions - Leader’s Guide
The Progress in Learning Science book entitled Match and Mismatch: Raising Questions: Leader’s Guide is in two parts. The first provides notes and suggestions for continuing professional development (CPD) leaders about the organisation of timing and use of materials. The second part reproduces the material in the teachers’…
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…
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…
SCISP Topic Book: Friction
This Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) topic book was written to accompany the fourth of the SCISP students’ manuals. Contents • Patterns of friction • What is friction? • Using friction • Two important patterns concerning friction • The mechanism of sliding friction •…
Which and What?
The Learning Through Science teachers’ guides and pupils’ assignment cards for the unit Which and What? differs from the other packs in the Learning Through Science series because the cards are intended for identification use only. They do not suggest pupil activities. There are twelve cards, each twice the size of the…
SCISP Topic Book: Weather Patterns
This Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) topic book was written to accompany the third of the SCISP students’ manuals. Contents • Introduction • Water and weather patterns • Wind and weather patterns • Weather patterns in the British Isles • Predicting weather • Further…
Match and Mismatch: Finding Answers
The Progress in Learning Science book for teachers entitled Match and Mismatch: Finding Answers provides information about the kind of learning experiences which are likely to help children at various point in their progress towards their learning goals in science. It thus complements Match and Match: Raising Questions which focuses…
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…
Change, Stages One and Two and Background
This Science 5/13 unit for teachers on Change stages one and two describes a range of activities that build children’s ideas about change and how it occurs. Rather than being a topic to pursue as a whole, it contains ideas that can be woven into other topics. However, one theme 'Changes in the kitchen' has been given…
SCISP Topic Book: The Electrification of British Rail
This Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) topic book was written to accompany the third of the SCISP students’ manuals. Contents • The beginnings of the railway • The railway's competition • Motive power • Inter-city travel • Electrification: the technical aspects •…
On the Move
The Learning Through Science teachers’ guides and pupils’ assignment cards for the unit On the Move give suggestions for activities children could undertake. The cards are divided into groups according to their subject: animals moving, and make it, test it. On the cards the grouping is denoted by a symbol. The teachers’…
Like and Unlike, Stages One, Two and Three
This Science 5/13 unit for teachers Like and unlike stages one, two and three has a wider range in the suggested activities than most other units, covering stage three (transition to abstract thinking) as well as the two earlier stages. There are two chapters (Chapters 2 and 4), which are written particularly to suggests topics which…
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…
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…
Earth
The Learning Through Science teachers’ guides and pupils’ assignment cards for the unit Earth give suggestions for activities children could undertake. The cards are divided into groups according to their subject: fieldwork, rock testing, soils, crystals, riches of the Earth, and past environments. On the cards the grouping…
All Around
The Learning Through Science teachers’ guide and pupils’ assignment cards for the unit All Around give suggestions for activities children could undertake. The cards are divided into groups according to their subject: science on the doorstep, looking at plants and looking at animals. On the cards the grouping is denoted…