What Is an Acid?
This is one of the 14 Background Books published for Stage III of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book is mainly an account of theories of acidity with examples to explain the importance of acids. There are two parts to this book: • Part 1: Defining…
Population Dynamics
Produced in 1969 by the Institute of Biology as part of its Studies in Biology series, this booklet gives an introduction to population dynamics. The booklet considers the influence on populations of a series of inter-related topics: • The numbers of individuals making up the population of particular species in specified…
Fluorescence
This booklet, in the Unilever Advanced Series was first published in 1970. The booklet explains the phenomenon of fluorescence in terms of bonding and antibonding orbitals. It then shows how synthesis of organic molecules can be used to make fluorescers that can act as optical brighteners in washing powers. Contents 1 Introduction 2…
Shape and Size
These Nuffield Mathematics Project guides focus on shape and size. Shape and size 2 is the first guide from the Nuffield Project to be concerned with shape and size although there was some preliminary material in Beginnings. The guide has three sections: a general introduction, ideas and topics suggested for primary schools and…
Corrosion
This is one of the 14 Background Books published for Stage III of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book describes applications of chemistry to solve practical problems. There are three parts to this book: • Part 1: What is corrosion? The rusting…
The Booklets: Second Series
This second series of booklets from the Contemporary School Mathematics collection first published by Edward Arnold in 1964, was intended for students aged 14-16. The language of sets and the use of matrices was used to show mathematics as a coherent subject with many applications and not a collection of isolated techniques. The…
Apparatus: A Sourcebook of Information and Ideas
This sourcebook of information and ideas from the Nuffield Junior Science Project is a collection of photographs and descriptions of apparatus designed and made by children and teachers. It was intended for reference and also to give support to teachers who were making a start. The project team hoped that teachers would soon accumulate…
Groups, Rings and Fields
The Midland Mathematical Experiment, in which a number of schools collaborated with the aim of developing a new approach to teaching mathematics in the Grammar School, developed a series of books to cover their ‘A’-level syllabus. Groups, Rings and Fields is split into sections, each section containing explanations, examples…
Inside the Atom
This is one of the 18 Background Books published for Stage II of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book describes aspects of the history of chemistry by exploring the evidence that led to modern theories of atomic structure. There are 4 parts to this book:…
Plant Symbiosis
Produced in 1969 by the Institute of Biology as part of its Studies in Biology series, this booklet examines the theoretical and practical knowledge of symbiosis. It looks at areas that include: • The concept of symbiosis • The origin and development of symbiosis • Morphological integration of symbiotic systems •…
Teacher's Guide 1
Teacher’s Guide 1 of the Nuffield Junior Science Project sets out the general educational philosophy of the project based on the project team's observations of children. It then tries to interpret that philosophy in terms of practical classroom situations, with chapters on selected trials, classroom organisation, books,…
Checking up Guides
The Nuffield Mathematics Project Check-up Guides were intended to provide information on the students' progress. As traditional tests were difficult to administer in the new atmosphere of individual discovery it was the intention of the authors to replace these by individual check-ups for individual students. The first of…
Handbook for Teachers
This Handbook for Teachers was one of the first publications of the Nuffield Science Teaching Project and explains the theoretical rationale underlying the Chemistry Sample Scheme. The analysis set out in the Handbook led to developments that are still reflected in Advanced Chemistry specifications now. This was because the authors…
The Discovery of the Inert Gases
This is one of the 14 Background Books published for Stage III of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book is historical and traces the discovery of the group of elements that we now call the ‘noble gases’. There are three parts to this book: •…
Plants and Water
Produced in 1968 by the Institute of Biology as part of its Studies in Biology series, this booklet helps students to understand more clearly the physical principles underlying water movement in plants. Topics in this booklet include: • The importance of water to plants • Structure and physical properties of water •…
Autumn into Winter
This book was written by the Nuffield Junior Science project to show teachers how seasonal materials offer children many opportunities to carry out simple investigations. The aim was to help children to build up, over the years, a picture of the continuity and wholeness of the natural world which the more traditional teaching of…
Nuffield Physics: Teachers’ Guide II
The second year of the Nuffield Physics programme, like the first, put great emphasis on providing students with hands-on experiences so they would delight in learning through their own experiments. Teachers were asked to think of themselves as leading strangers in the land of physics and reminded to make the general topography obvious. Contents Preface…
Microecology
Produced in 1967 by the Institute of Biology as part of its Studies in Biology series, this booklet is intended to be an introduction to ecological principles rather than a practical guide. It contains sections that look at: • Microhabitats: soils, tree-trunks, logs, rocks, leaf-litter, carcasses and dung • Microclimatic…
The Booklets: First Series
This resource from the Contemporary School Mathematics collection published by Edward Arnold, contains the first series of booklets, originally published in 1964. The booklets were intented to be used with students aged 11 -13 to supplement, rather than replace, existing texts. The four booklets are: Shape, size and place Co-ordinates,…
Nuffield Physics Background Book: Astronomy
This Nuffield Physics Background Book on astronomy uses a narrative to guide the reader through the development of theory in astronomy, from early ideas and Greek astronomy, through to the work of Kepler and Newton. Many hand-drawn diagrams are used to illustrate the concepts and suggestions for student activities are given –…
The Periodic Table
This is one of the 18 Background Books published for Stage II of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book describes aspects of the history of chemistry by exploring the developments that led to the Periodic Table. There are 4 parts to this book: • Part…
Chemicals From Nature
This is one of the six Background Books published for Stage I of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book describes applications of chemistry. There are two parts to this book: • Part 1: Earth, air and water A review of elements and compounds obtained…
Catalysis
This is one of the 18 Background Books published for Stage II of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book explores theories of catalysts and describes some industrial uses of catalysts. There are three parts to this book: • Part 1: The nature and uses…
Forces
This book was one in the Longman Physics Topics series. It was written to provide background material for the work on forces mainly in the second year of the Nuffield Physics course. The aim was to help students to appreciate the importance of forces in everyday life and begin to explain how they come about, thus laying the foundation…
Dalton and the Atomic Theory
This is one of the 18 Background Books published for Stage II of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book describes early thinking about atoms that led, in time, to modern chemistry. There are two parts to this book: • Part 1: The quiet genius This…
Exercises
This resource, published by Edward Arnold, was written to supply a set of examples on the 'modern' topics required for the St. Dunstan's College O-level examination syllabus, but many of the chapters go beyond the needs of O-level. The text preceding each exercise is brief, but there are references to other Contemporary…
Plant Breeding
Produced in 1968 by the Institute of Biology as part of its Studies in Biology series, this booklet is an introduction to plant breeding and the genetic principles on which it is based. It contains sections which include: • Origins and development of cultivated plants • Breeding aims • Self-pollination, cross-pollination…
Mathematics Begins
Mathematics begins (1967) is a revised and enhanced version of the Circle series ‘Beginnings' produced by the Nuffield Mathematics Project. As with the earlier guide it is concerned with students in their first few years at school and how their experiences of life gradually extend their mathematical thinking. As this…
Drugs and Medicines
This is one of the 14 Background Books published for Stage III of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book traces some of the key developments in the uses of chemicals in medicine. The main topics are: • the early history of medicine • the relief…
Beginnings (Triangle Series)
This is the parallel Guide, from the Nuffield Mathematics Project, to Beginnings (Circle series). It deals with the early awareness of both the meaning of number and the relationships which can emerge from everyday experiences of environmental play: measuring, length, capacity, area, time and size.
Plastics
This is one of the 18 Background Books published for Stage II of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book describes applications of chemistry to making plastics and explaining their properties. There are 5 parts to this book: • Part 1: What are plastics? This…
Nuffield Physics: Teachers’ Guide IV
Year IV of Nuffield Physics was to be presented as a much more logical and closely knit programme than that of earlier years. The authors assumed that if previous work had been satisfactory, the students would have had sufficient experience and enjoyment to wish to undertake the work, and would continually ask questions -calling…