The Chemical Elements
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 aspects of the history of chemistry by exploring the discovery of the elements from ancient times up to the creation of artificial transuranium…
The Start of X-ray Analysis
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 was written by the X-ray pioneer, Sir Lawrence Bragg, who describes the early use of X-rays to discover the structures of ionic crystals. This book was…
Colloids
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. There are three parts to this book: • Part 1: The properties of colloids Covering, diffusion, Brownian motion,…
Water
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 highlights the importance of water and explains key ideas related to its chemistry. There are five parts to this book: • Part 1: Chemical and…
Man-made Fibres
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. This books includes text and flow diagrams to describe the discovery and production of semi-synthetic fibres (from…
Life in the Soil
Produced in 1966 by the Institute of Biology as part of its Studies in Biology series, this booklet introduces students to the soil as an environment for life, and then to describe the organisms inhabiting. The soil organisms described attempt to provide examples of their biology, physiology and ecology that can be studied by school…
Logic
This book, which forms part of the weaving series from the Nuffield Mathematics Project, is an introduction to logic in a very general sense. Its main aim was to help students aged from about 8 to 12 to think clearly and logically. In this book, students are encouraged to consider how they use the logically important words, and…
Coal
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 in the coal industry. There are two parts to this book: • Part 1: Mining for coal The history of coal mining…
Planetary Astronomy
This book was one in the Longman Physics Topics series. It was written to provide background material for the work on ideas in cosmology in the fifth year of the Nuffield Physics course. This book, first published in 1969, was written to provide information and data which would enable students to trace the extraordinary story…
Chemical Engineering
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 starts with a story of the discovery of a new solvent and the stages in the development of a new process to make it on a large scale. The book ends…
Petroleum
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 in the petrochemical industry. There are three parts to this book: • Part 1: Petroleum and where it comes…
Making Diamonds
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 the application of chemistry to extract and manufacture diamonds. The book describes the manufacture of synthetic diamonds in the early 1960s…
Dissolving
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 the chemical ideas related to solubilility and solutions. The main ideas covered are: • what happens when a substance dissolves • the…
Pictures in Silver
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 developments in photography It long before the modern era of digital photography. The main topics are: • the importance of photography…
Computation and Structure
These guides from the Nuffield Mathematics Project follow on from the Beginnings guide. They deal mainly with number but also cover weights and measures. In Computation and structure 2, the concept of number is further developed. A section on the history of natural numbers and weights and measures (imperial and pre decimal) leads…
Further Mathematics: Chapters 5 to 8
This resource, published by G Bell and Sons, was intended to complete the two-year course for those studying Pure Mathematics and also to extend the course to give adequate preparation for the 'S' papers of the GCE and similar examinations. CHAPTER V - SYSTEMS OF CIRCLES Power of a point with respect to a circle;…
The Way of Discovery
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 consists of a series of articles about scientists who won the Nobel Prize between 1929 and 1967. The stories illustrate a variety of aspects of how science…
Chemistry Laboratory Investigations Stage IB
This resource was designed to help students, aged 11-13, build up their notes while working through Stage IB of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The plan was that students would record their work on blank sheets inserted to face each printed page. In this way the authors hoped that students would build up their own textbook.…
Chemistry: Introduction and Guide
One of the first books to be produced by the Nuffield Science Teaching Project in the 1960s, this introduction outlines the Nuffield Chemistry scheme and how its new approach to teaching and assessment aimed to modernise the teaching of the subject for students aged 11-16. The chapters are: 1. Introduction 2. A modern approach…
Further Mathematics: Chapters 1 to 4
This resource, published by G Bell and Sons, was intended to complete the two-year course for those studying Pure Mathematics and also to extend the course to give adequate preparation for the 'S' papers of the GCE and similar examinations. CHAPTER I - THE TRIANGLE Medians; Circumcentre and circumcircle; Orthocentre…
Science and History
The Nuffield Junior Science project team wrote this book to highlight the benefits in primary schools that arise from the system of assigning one teacher to a class. The authors made the point that this enables the teacher to present children with the world as a unified whole rather than with a world already divided up into secondary…
Michael Faraday
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 and physics by describing the life and work of Michael Faraday. This book was published in 1967 but can…
Teacher's Guide 2
Teacher’s Guide 2 of the Nuffield Junior Science Project is largely a collection of reports of samples of work done by classes in the pre-pilot and pilot areas. It attempts to show how children of a wide range of age, ability, and social background, taught by a representative sample of teachers, adapted the general approach…
Chemistry Laboratory Investigations Stage II
This resource was designed to help students, aged 14-16, build up their notes while working through Stage II of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The plan was that students would record their work on blank sheets inserted to face each printed page. In this way the authors hoped that students would build up their own textbook.…
The Structure of Substances
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 what chemists know about the structure of substances and follows from the Background Book called The Start of X-Ray Analysis <link>. The…
Pressures
This book was one in the Longman Physics Topics series. It was written to provide background material for the work on forces and pressures in the first two years of the Nuffield Physics course. The aim was to help students to appreciate the importance of pressure in everyday life. Emphasis was placed on the practical applications…
Further Mathematics: Chapters 9 to 12
This resource, published by G Bell and Sons, was intended to complete the two-year course for those studying Pure Mathematics and also to extend the course to give adequate preparation for the 'S' papers of the GCE and similar examinations. CHAPTER IX - DE MOIVRE'S THEOREM AND SIMPLE APPLICATIONS De Moivre's…
Further Mathematics: Revision Papers
This resource, published by G Bell and Sons, was intended to complete the two-year course for those studying Pure Mathematics and also to extend the course to give adequate preparation for the 'S' papers of the GCE and similar examinations. Revision papers - contains a selection of past examination papers which are a…
Chemicals and Where They Come From
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 is book describes applications of chemistry. There are four parts to this book: • Part 1: Salts from the sea An account of the salts obtained from…
Experiments with Aluminium
Written by F.C. Brown and published by the English Universities Press, this book contains information about experiments relating to aluminium or its compounds. Aluminium is a very familiar metal and its properties offer interesting possibilities for experiment. The instructions contain teacher guidance and practical advice. The…
Into Secondary School
This short booklet, from the Nuffield Mathematics Project, is for teachers of children from eleven upwards, whether in secondary or middle schools. It describes the aims of the Project as it affects these children, and so is complementary to the Introductory guide, I do and I understand, which explains the philosophy of the project…
Chemistry Laboratory Investigations Stage IA
This resource was designed to help students, aged 11-13, build up their notes while working through Stage IA of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The plan was that students would record their work on blank sheets inserted to face each printed page. In this way the authors hoped that students would build up their own textbook.…