Nuffield Pathways Through Science: Upgrade Pack
Nuffield Pathways Through Science was reorganised to match the new NEAB Modular Science specifications following the 1995 revisions to the National Curriculum. Much of the content of the programme was unchanged but the modules were cut to 12 and the materials restructured. The revisions of the National Curriculum were more than…
Activities Pack II
This Nuffield Combined Science Activities Pack provided student booklets; one for each of the last five sections of the course. These booklets were not intended to be used as ordinary text books. Purposes Activities were to be used to: • start students thinking about a new piece of work, • give them ideas of things…
Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences – Single Science: Chemistry
The Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences supplementary Worksheets and Teachers' guide for Chemistry enabled teachers to prepare students for separate-subject Chemistry GCSE examinations. The extra worksheets were arranged to fit in with the topics in the teaching order suggested for the main course. There were three extension…
Materials
This Nuffield Pathways Through Science module covered solutions and a variety of systems in which one material is finely dispersed in another (colloids) as well as the properties and uses of glass, ceramics, metals and polymers. The module provided opportunities to clarify and apply understanding of ideas about states of matter…
Chemicals
This Nuffield Pathways Through Science module began by exploring three questions related to chemical reactions: How much?, How fast? And How far? and went on to show how a model of atomic structure can account for the periodic table. Applications of chemistry related to antacids, dyes, fermentation, corrosion and food preservation…
Making Materials
This Nuffield Pathways Through Science module covered structure, bonding, as well as an introduction to quantitative chemistry with calculations based on amounts in moles. The topic was presented in three episodes: Mm 1: Plastics Mm 2: Metals Mm 3: Chemicals from salt The activities for this module included 9 skill sheets setting…
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.…
Activities Pack I
This Nuffield Combined Science activities pack provided student booklets; one for each of the first five sections of the course. These booklets were not intended to be used as ordinary text books. Purposes Activities were to be used to: • start students thinking about a new piece of work, • give them ideas of things…
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.…
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.…
Nuffield Science Year 7
The Nuffield Science for Key Stage Three course materials for Year Seven were planned as an integrated science course. The topics Topic A Being a scientist Topic B Senses Topic C Measuring Topic D Solar System Topic E Forces Topic F Elements and compounds Topic G Atoms and molecules Topic H Patterns The resources The…
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Nuffield Science Year 9
Year Nine of Nuffield Science for Key Stage Three was written to provide a clear transition into the 14-16 curriculum. Two teaching sequences were devised for Year Nine, either as an integrated course or as a co-ordinated course divided into biology, chemistry and physics. Principles Two basic principles underpinned the planning…
Nuffield Science Year 8
The Nuffield Science for Key Stage Three course materials for Year Eight were planned as an integrated science course. The topics Topic A Energy Topic B Fuels Topic C Life goes on Topic D Healthy body Topic E An electrical world Topic F Water Topic G Air around us Topic H Colourful world The resources The…
Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences: Chemistry Worksheets
Most of the Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences Chemistry Worksheets were the same in both editions of the course. Extra worksheets were published in an Upgrade Pack for the second edition. There is a full list of all the chemistry worksheets at the start of the chemistry section of the upgrade file. There were three types of chemistry…
Nuffield Science 11 to 13: Worksheets
The Nuffield 11-13 file of Worksheets includes photocopiable sheets covering both years of the programme. As well as supplementing the activities in the textbook, the worksheets are designed to do several jobs: • to provide copiable of pages of information or graphics which teachers might reproduce as permanent additions to…