Teaching Science at Key Stages One and Two
This book, published in 1993 by the National Curriculum Council, is based on three projects carried out during 1990 and 1991, which aimed to identify good practice in implementing the National Curriculum, to prepare guidance for teachers and to review progression in the programmes of study and attainment targets. Aimed at teachers…
Earth Science for Primary Teachers: an INSET Handbook
Published in 1993 by the National Curriculum Council, this book provides activities designed to review and improve the understanding and teaching of Earth science within the curriculum. It is designed to be used by individual teachers, science co-ordinators, professional development course providers and in initial teacher training,…
Implementing Design and Technology at Key Stage Three
The Implementing Design and Technology at Key Stage Three pack, produced by the National Curriculum Council in 1991, is a pack of INSET materials for teachers, heads of design and technology departments and advisory staff. It contains activities which are intended for group discussion by groups of teachers, rather than those working…
Quality in Design and Technology 1993
Produced in 1993, this leaflet was written by the National Curriculum Council for teachers of design and technology at all four Key Stages. It aimed to stimulate lively and useful discussion amongst educationalists and technologists. It briefly raises and summarises different issues and factors that influence planning, teaching,…
Science Non-Statutory Guidance (1991)
This publication, from the National Curriculum Council, gives guidance to teachers of science and others concerned with science education. It describes the changes to the National Curriculum science Order that were introduced in 1991. It introduces the four new attainment targets of: Scientific investigation; Life and living processes;…
Curriculum Guidance 7 - Environmental Education
This publication, from the National Curriculum Council (NCC), provides: aims of environmental education; a framework for environmental education; implementing environmental education; case studies and classroom activities. The following attainment targets from the science National Curriculum were particularly relevant to learning…
Curriculum Guidance 10 - Teaching Science to Pupils with Special Educational Needs
In this publication, from the National Curriculum Council, the priority was to review how accessible the National Curriculum was to students with special educational needs (SEN). This publication draws on good practice in schools with students with special educational needs. It was produced with the help of a team of teachers and…
Earth Science for Secondary Teachers: an INSET Handbook
At the time of the introduction of the National Curriculum, teachers in secondary schools had very varied experience of Earth science. The breadth of the curriculum they were now required to teach in the National Curriculum included areas of science that were often not part of teachers’ training. In publishing this book,…
Science Explorations
The main aim of this booklet, provided by the National Curriculum Council, is to offer guidance on: • the nature of scientific investigation • continuity and progression across the full age range • how schemes of work can be prepared to develop scientific skills • the integration of investigations with…
Science and Pupils with Special Educational Needs - a Workshop Pack for Key Stages 1 and 2
This book from the National Curriculum Council is designed for teachers of students with special educational need in both mainstream and special schools. The book covers parts of the National Curriculum for science for Key Stages One and Two. It provides planned activities each with a commentary explaining how the INSET can be run…
The Calculator-Aware Number Curriculum (CAN)
This book from Simon and Shuster and the NCC is an account of work which the PrIME Project undertook, between 1986 and 1989, to develop a Calculator-Aware Number (CAN) curriculum for children in the primary years. The work was to continue until 1992, under the auspices of the CAN Continuation Project, but the account in this book…
Mathematics Programmes of Study: INSET for Key Stages One Two, Three and Four
These resources from the National Curriculum Council were published in 1991 following the recently introduced National Curriculum. They were designed to help schools in their own INSET programmes, and were written with local or departmental groups of teachers in mind. The introduction of the National Curriculum posed many questions…