I Do and I Understand
This guide explains the intentions of the Nuffield Mathematics Project, gives detailed descriptions of the ways in which a changeover from conventional teaching can be made and faces many of the problems that will be met. The contribution of the psychologist Piaget to the development of mathematics is described, as is the significance…
Pictorial Representation
The guide Pictorial representation, from the Nuffield Mathematics Project, was designed to help teachers of students between the ages of 5 and 10. The guide deals with graphical representation in its many aspects. It contains helpful notes for the teachers as well as ideas and examples of students’ work.
Fashion Entrepreneur
Scheduling jobs in a fashion workshop is the context for this Nuffield exploration. There are six people in the workshop and a series of jobs to be completed in one day. The key processes which developed include: • Representing - identifying factors that affect decisions, producing a clear plan for the six people who contribute…
Revised Nuffield Chemistry: Teachers’ Guide I
Revised Nuffield Chemistry Teachers’ Guide I incorporated much of the experience fed back from teachers in the light of experience. The purposes of the teaching in each topic were made clearer. The text of the revised experiment sheets was incorporated into the teacher guidance. Contents Foreword Editor’s preface Part…
Probability and Statistics
Probability and statistics, from the Nuffield Mathematics Project, starts with play activities which can develop ideas of fairness and probability through discussions on common facts leading to the collection of data, illustrating it with graphs and charts and drawing conclusions. Experimental and theoretical probability are…
Guide to Chemistry Apparatus
The Guide to Chemistry Apparatus set out the requirements for the class experiments and teacher demonstrations suggested for Stages I and II of the Nuffield Chemistry Basic Course. Notable changes in practice for the 11-16 age range encouraged by the authors of the course that are reflected in the list include the use of: •…
Variation and Inheritance
Work done in this Nuffield 13 - 16 module followed from the B unit called ‘Organisms’. This S unit provided enough material for eight double periods during a single-certificate science course. The teachers’ guide included 14 worksheets to supplement the students’ booklet. Two of the worksheets suggest extended…
Nuffield Physics: Guide to Experiments I
This Nuffield Physics guide to experiments was designed to supplement Teachers' Guide I by giving details of the class experiments and demonstrations to be done during the first year of the Nuffield O-level physics programme. A special feature of the guides was the very clear, three-dimensional diagrams of the apparatus to…
Food Chains and Webs
Work done in this Nuffield 13 - 16 module followed from the B units called ‘Energy’ and ‘Competition and predation’. This S unit provided enough material for eight double periods during a single-certificate science course. The teachers’ guide included 12 worksheets to supplement the students’ booklet.…
Nuffield Mathematics for Overseas Teachers
This series of books was planned and commissioned by the Centre for Curriculum Renewal and Educational Development Overseas (CREDO), which was established in 1966 to help developing countries with their own programmes of educational innovation by making available to them the relevant British knowledge. The work of the Nuffield…
Revised Nuffield Biology 3: Living Things and their Environment
The texts for Revised Nuffield Biology offered an amended version of the fourth year of the five-year course to O-level. The revision was based on the experience of numerous teachers with the original edition. Extra help in the teachers’ guide included: • indications of possible teaching sequences • flow diagrams…
Cars on the Move
Work done in this Nuffield 13 - 16 module followed from the S unit called ‘Rockets and momentum’. This S unit provided enough material for eight double periods during a single-certificate science course. The teachers’ guide included eight worksheets to supplement the students’ booklet. The general notes…
Revised Nuffield Biology 1: Introducing Living Things
Revised Nuffield Biology combined into single volumes the Student Texts and Teachers’ Guides for the first year and second year of the original course. This revised teachers' guide for the first two years of the five-year programme contained suggestions based on the experience of numerous teachers with the original…
Senses
This Nuffield 13 - 16 module is one for the start of the three-year programme. This B unit provided enough material for six double periods in the third year of secondary school (year nine). The teachers’ guide included six worksheets to supplement the students’ booklet. Contents 1. What can we find out through our…
Fuels
Work done in this Nuffield 13 - 16 module followed from the S units called ‘Particles at work’ and ‘Circuits’. This S unit provided enough material for eight double periods during a single-certificate science course. The teachers’ guide included seven worksheets to supplement the students’ booklet.…
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…
Revised Nuffield Biology 4: the Perpetuation of Life
The texts for Revised Nuffield Biology offered an amended version of the fifth year of the five-year course to O-level. The revision was based on the experience of numerous teachers with the original edition. Extra help in the teachers’ guide included: • indications of possible teaching sequences • flow diagrams…
Revised Nuffield Chemistry: Teachers’ Guide II
Revised Nuffield Chemistry offered two routes through Stage II. Stage IIA followed the same general order as in the original Sample Scheme but with modifications such as some new experiments and a delayed introduction of some conceptually demanding content. Stage IIB was more radical in its approach. Special features included: •…
Nuffield Science 11 to 13: Year 1
The Nuffield 11 to 13 project provided a book for students and a Teachers’ Guide for each year of the course together with a file of Worksheets. The student books were not conventional textbooks. Less space than usual was given to exposition and factual information. The main aim was to generate interest using case studies to…
Teachers' Guide I
This Nuffield Combined Science Teachers’ Guide covers the first five sections of the course which were planned to be taught to students aged 11-12. Contents Section 1: The world around us Section 2: Looking for patterns Section 3: How living things begin Section 4: Air Section 5: Electricity Appendix I: Notes on the…
Every Second Counts
In this Nuffield practical exploration students explore how far away they could travel in one hour. Knowledge of the locality and reference to various maps and timetables, possibly via the internet, is essential in planning a route. Key processes within this activity are: • Representing - deciding what information to collect…
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…
Chemical Giants
Work done in this Nuffield 13 - 16 module followed from the S unit called Metals. This X unit provided enough material for eight double periods. It could be selected to complete either a Science or a Further Science course. The teachers’ guide included 13 worksheets to supplement the students’ booklet. This module…
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…
Revised Nuffield Physics Teachers’ Guide Year 3
The Teachers’ Guides for Revised Nuffield Physics sought to convey the spirit of the approach and its rationale while providing all the technical details for the experiments (based on the Guides to Experiments in the first edition). The guides suggested a language for talking about ideas in physics at an appropriate level at…
2/5- Publication year: 1970 - 1979
- Teacher guidance
The Periodic Table
Work done in this Nuffield 13 - 16 module followed from the S unit called ‘Circuits’. This D unit provided enough material for eight double periods during a Further Science course and built on the content of the S units for Single Science. The teachers’ guide included five worksheets to supplement the students’…
Control Systems
Work done in this Nuffield 13 - 16 module followed from the B units called ‘Breathing and circulation’ and ‘Food and digestion’, also from the S unit ‘Circuits’. This D unit provided enough material for eight double periods during a Further Science course and built on the content of the S units…
Investigating the Nature of Science: Teachers' Guide
This resource from the Nuffield Foundation provides material for teaching 'the nature of science' for students aged 11-16. The units were designed to help teachers and learners explore questions such as: • How and why do scientific ideas change and develop? • Does the society and the human background in which…
Atoms and Molecules
Work done in this Nuffield 13 - 16 module followed from the unit called ‘Particles’ and was intended to lead to an understanding of the ways in which some properties of materials can be explained in terms of the type and arrangement of their atomic and molecular building blocks. Giant structures were mentioned, but were…
Magnetism and Electricity
Work done in this Nuffield 13 - 16 module followed from the unit called ‘Charged particles’. This B unit provided enough material for six double periods in the third year of secondary school (year nine). The teachers’ guide included seven worksheets to supplement the students’ booklet. Contents 1. The…
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…
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.
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