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 •…
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…
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…
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 •…
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…
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: Electromagnetic Radiation
This Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) topic book was written to accompany the third of the SCISP students’ manuals. Contents • Introduction • Electromagnetic radiation production and detection • Solar radiation • Light waves • Infrared radiation • Spectra •…
SCISP Topic Book: Darwin and Evolution
This Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) topic book was written to accompany the fourth of the SCISP students’ manuals. Contents • Background • The impact of Darwin's ideas • Natural selection today
SCISP Teachers’ Handbook
The Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) Teachers’ Handbook explained the rationale for the sample scheme called Patterns. The authors of the scheme regarded the concepts and patterns as fixed, but the suggested activities and investigations used to establish concepts as suggestions. The sample scheme suggested…
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 •…
SCISP Teachers’ Guide 4: Interactions and Change
In the Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) course, the explanations of change used the concept of interaction under these headings: • Recognising change • A close look at a number of different changes • Stability Contents 1. Recognising change 2. Changes in behaviour 3. Changes in acidity 4.…
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: Sound: its Uses and Misuses
This Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) topic book was written to accompany the third of the SCISP students’ manuals. Contents • What is sound? • The ear and hearing • Music and musical instruments • Sound and communication • Sound recording • Echo sounding •…
SCISP Topic Book: The Diversity of Life
This Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) topic book was written to accompany the second of the SCISP students’ manuals. Contents • Introduction: variety and classification • Early attempts at classifying organisms • Naming living things - Karl von Linné • The levels of classification •…
SCISP Topic Book: Chemical Formulae and Equations
This Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) topic book was written to accompany the first of the SCISP students’ manuals. Contents • The masses and relative atomic masses of atoms • The mole: an important base unit • Some experimental enquiries using the mole unit • Formulae of compounds…
SCISP Technicians' Manual 1: Building Blocks
The Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) technicians' manuals included classified lists of equipment, preparation guides, technical hints and lists of suppliers. The books were written to enable almost all school technicians to prepare for the Patterns lessons with as little help as possible from the teacher. Contents Classified…
SCISP Teachers’ Guide 3: Energy
In the Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) programme, energy in living and non-living systems was always considered in the context of energy transfer. The course generally avoided labelling different 'forms' of energy, but aimed to show that in an energy transfer useful tasks could be done. The teaching introduced…
SCISP Topic Book: Machines and Engines
This Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) topic book was written to accompany the third of the SCISP students’ manuals. Contents • Harnessing energy before steam • Engines • Control
SCISP Teachers’ Guide 1: Building Blocks
The main purpose of the first section of the Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) sample scheme was to introduce the Integrated Science Project's concepts of pattern and problem. Qualitative and quantitative generalisations were introduced, and patterns were used to solve problems. The problems were both practical…
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 Technicians’ Manual 3: Energy
The Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) technicians' manuals included classified lists of equipment, preparation guides, technical hints and lists of suppliers. The books were written to enable almost all school technicians to prepare for the Patterns lessons with as little help as possible from the teacher. Contents Preface…
SCISP Students’ Manual 4: Interactions and Change
The Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) manuals for students were not traditional textbooks. They included experiments, practical and theoretical problems, and information (such as photographs, data and extracts from books or newspapers) intended for use in problems and in class discussion. They also contained optional…
SCISP Topic Book: Population Patterns
This Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) topic book was written to accompany the first of the SCISP students’ manuals. The main purpose of the book was to explore the implications of population patterns for human kind and to examine the numerous factors which influence those patterns. Contents • Patterns…
SCISP Topic Book: Length and its Measurement
This Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) topic book was written to accompany the first of the SCISP students’ manuals. Contents • Why measure? • Very small measurements • Very large measurements • Appendix
SCISP Topic Book: Rocks and Minerals
This Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) topic book was written to accompany the first of the SCISP students’ manuals. Contents • Collecting rocks • Rocks - the building blocks of the Earth's crust • Identifying a rock • Identifying a mineral • Polishing your specimens…
SCISP Topic Book: Human Behaviour
This Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) topic book was written to accompany the fourth of the SCISP students’ manuals. Contents • Man and computer • The start of life • The influence of the family and other people • The senses • Keeping fit • Motivation • Advertising
SCISP Technicians’ Manual 2: Interactions and Building Blocks
The Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) technicians' manuals included classified lists of equipment, preparation guides, technical hints and lists of suppliers. The books were written to enable almost all school technicians to prepare for the Patterns lessons with as little help as possible from the teacher. Contents Classified…
SCISP Students’ Manual 3: Energy
The Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) manuals for students were not traditional textbooks. They included experiments, practical and theoretical problems, and information (such as photographs, data and extracts from books or newspapers) intended for use in problems and in class discussion. They also contained optional…
SCISP Students’ Manual 1: Building Blocks
The Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) manuals for students were not traditional textbooks. They included experiments, practical and theoretical problems, and information (such as photographs, data and extracts from books or newspapers) intended for use in problems and in class discussion. They also contained optional…
SCISP Students’ Manual 2: Interactions and Building Blocks
The Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) manuals for students were not traditional textbooks. They included experiments, practical and theoretical problems, and information (such as photographs, data and extracts from books or newspapers) intended for use in problems and in class discussion. They also contained optional…
SCISP Technicians’ Manual 4: Interactions and Change
The Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) technicians' manuals included classified lists of equipment, preparation guides, technical hints and lists of suppliers. The books were written to enable almost all school technicians to prepare for the Patterns lessons with as little help as possible from the teacher. Contents Classified…