Unit 5: Atomic Structure
This Nuffield Advanced Physics Unit provides some of the key ideas for one of the major theme of the course which is the attempt to explain large-scale things in terms of small-scale things. The Unit draws together ideas about electric charge and fields from Unit 3 into new patterns to explain new things. The central idea for the…
Shape, Space and Measures 4
This shape, space and measures book at level seven, from the Nuffield National Curriculum Mathematics series, was suitable for students following an intermediate GCSE course. It has nine units of work, each with information for students to read and questions and activities to do. The units, which are in short sections, have detailed…
Unit 8: Electromagnetic Waves
This Nuffield Advanced Physics Unit was about light as a wave motion. It represented the culmination of one line of thought in the course as a whole, for in it, earlier work on waves, on electric fields, and on magnetic fields came together in a (simplified) description of what an electromagnetic wave might be thought to be like.…
Number and Algebra 4
This book at level seven, from the Nuffield National Curriculum Mathematics series, was suitable for students following an intermediate GCSE course. It has nine units of work, each with information, questions and activities. The units, which are in short sections, have detailed content descriptions at the top of each page. These…
Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry: Metals as Materials
This was one of the six Special Studies to feature in the Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry course. Each student was expected to work through one of the studies in about four weeks. The aim was to show students how chemistry is applied in agriculture, industry, and medicine, and to help them to appreciate that the social and economic…
Nuffield Advanced Chemistry (Fourth Edition): Food Science
The popular Food Science Special Study was revised and updated for the Fourth Edition of Nuffield Advanced Chemistry. All the instructions for experiments, theory and questions were included in the Students’ Book. The Teachers’ and Technicians’ Guide provided the technical information for setting up the practical…
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…
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 Advanced Chemistry (Fourth Edition): Chemical Engineering
The Chemical Engineering Special Study was revised and updated for the Fourth Edition of Nuffield Advanced Chemistry. All the theory was explained in the Students’ Book. The experiments were described in a separate file. The Teachers’ and Technicians’ Guide provided the technical information for setting up the practical…
Unit 9: Change and Chance
This Nuffield Advanced Physics Unit was presented as a single volume for teachers and students. The aim was to make the ideas behind the Second Law of Thermodynamics intelligible to students at school. The approach was through the statistics of molecular chaos, because the authors felt that this was the best way to provided a first…
Unit 6: Electronics and Reactive Circuits
The authors of Nuffield Advanced Physics decided to include electronics in the course for two reasons. 1. It could be useful in the future. Students could expect to find themselves using electronic devices in many courses of further education, and in a very wide variety of future careers, including medicine and jobs directly to…
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…
Nuffield Physical Science: Introduction and Guide
The Introduction and Guide to Nuffield Physical Science set out the aims and general philosophy of the course. This was a novel course and the Guide set out to explain its nature, and place in the curriculum, to teachers and students. Contents Organiser's foreword Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The characteristics…
GNVQ Science Intermediate Assignments
The Nuffield Science in Practice file of Intermediate Assignments began with a study guide. This was a compilation of short tasks covering the full range required for each of the four mandatory units. The tasks were designed to help students check that they have understood the content and to prepare for tests. The bulk of the…
Nuffield Advanced Biology: Course Guide
This Nuffield Foundation Course Guide was written to give a chapter by chapter breakdown of the Nuffield A-level and AS-level Biology specifications as they were in the 1990s following the introduction of GCSE and the growth of double-award science programmes. The purpose of the course guide was to help students and teachers plan…
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…
Unit 10: Waves, Particles and Atoms
This Nuffield Advanced Physics Unit offered an introduction to quantum theory presented in a single volume for teachers and students. The main work was theoretical. Many of the arguments were presented as a chain of questions. Contents • Introduction: the quantum revolution Part One: Photons Part Two: Electrons Part…
Nuffield Advanced Chemistry: Topics 1 to 12
The Nuffield Advanced Chemistry students’ books were not intended to be conventional textbooks, or background books, or books of data. The books were deliberately left in many ways incomplete. The aim was to provide students with a series of starting points from which to explore the chemistry at advanced level. Students were…
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.…
Forces
This Nuffield Pathways Through Science module explored forces and motion to include collisions and explosions explained in terms of momentum. In the section about space the treatment covered circular motion as well as kinetic and potential energy. Activities in the middle of the three episodes investigated forces in machines. Fo…
Unit 3: Field and Potential
This Nuffield Advanced Physics unit was concerned with the ideas of field and potential, developed for the electric and the gravitational fields. A main aim was to suggest that ideas about field and potential are rather general and so very useful. Their generality and usefulness were brought out in the unit by switching attention…
Handling Data 4
This level seven book, from the Nuffield National Curriculum Mathematics series, was suitable for students following an intermediate GCSE course. It has nine units of work on handling data, each with information, questions and activities. The units, which are in short sections, have detailed content descriptions at the top of each…
Special Study: Chemical Engineering
This Nuffield Advanced Chemistry Special Study enabled students to see something of the scope of the field of chemical engineering, and to appreciate its dependence upon chemical principles The objectives were to show: • that chemical engineers are concerned with the economic production of chemicals. • that chemical engineering…
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…
Nuffield Advanced Chemistry: Ethanol and Other Alcohols
This Nuffield Advanced Chemistry programmed text was devised as an introduction to organic chemistry. It was offered as an alternative treatment to part of Topic 9 of the basic course. The optional work in Part two of the programme includes useful background work for parts of Topic 13, and elementary ideas on reaction mechanism.…
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…
Radiation
This Nuffield Pathways Through Science module introduced a source detector model for thinking about radiations. This model was used as students explored the transmission, absorption and reflection of radiation and then went on to learn about the radiations from radioactive materials. The module also investigated the formation of…
Handling Data 3
This resource on Handling Data from Nuffield National Curriculum Mathematics was suitable for those students working towards an Intermediate GCSE. The units, at National Curriculum level six, begin by considering the history of information collecting from the Domesday book and early opinion polls and how they have evolved into the…
Electricity
This Nuffield Pathways Through Science module covered current electricity, electromagnetism and its applications, transformers and the mains electricity supply, the uses of electrolysis as well as electrostatics. The module was presented in four episodes: El 1: Electric control EI 2: Electricity to movement EI 3: Movement to electricity EI…
Nuffield Physical Science: the Options
The Nuffield Physical Science course featured two types of options. These introduced an element of choice for students and teachers. General options The general options were introduced into the course to meet the needs of students planning to progress to higher education in specialist areas such as medicine and engineering. Each…