Nuffield Science Activities for GCSE
The three packs of Nuffield Science activity sheets were designed to match the National Curriculum Science at Key stage Four from 1996. The ideas were drawn from materials produced by various Nuffield projects over the previous ten years. Each pack contains activities which exemplify the Nuffield approach to learning science.…
Co-operation between Science Teachers and Mathematics Teachers
Six resources in the Co-operation between Science Teachers and Mathematics Teachers series produced by the ISCU Committee on the Teaching of Science considers how mathematics is used in other areas of the curriculum. Functions and Physics looks at how functions are used in Hooke’s law, how quadratic equations are used when…
Science Investigations
Science Investigations is a resource pack designed to improve the investigations students carry out by targeting the area of student difficulty, that of handling evidence. Science Investigations is compatible with any Key Stage Three science course and can be used as a sequenced teaching resource or as support for particular topics.…
Geology: Structure of the Earth
Geology: Structure of the Earth was a topic designed by the Northumberland Supported Self Study Unit at Northumberland County Council in the early 1990s for post-16 students. Comprising six units, the topic aimed to not only teach about geological features of the Earth but also to develop learning skills which would be transferable…
Supported Learning in Physics Project (SLIPP)
The Supported Learning in Physics (SLIPP) project set out to encourage students to learn the physics that is appropriate for A-level and vocational courses by providing them with learning experiences that were worthwhile, interesting and motivating. The project was supported by a range of organizations including professional institutions,…
Science with Technology
The Science with Technology project was a joint initiative of the Association for Science Education (ASE) and the Design and Technology Association (DATA). It was set up to develop curriculum links between science and technology for students aged 14-19 years. The project provided resource materials for students and support for teachers…
Studies in Awareness of Science
Studies in Awareness of Science, published by John Murray, was a set of resources designed to broaden the post-16 science curriculum. The editor of the publications, Peter Hughes, envisaged that the resources might be used in these ways: • as the basis of short courses lasting two to three hours • as resource material…
Salters’ Science for Key Stage Three: Science Focus
The Salters’ science courses were developed in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s to provide a complete balanced course in science for Key Stages Three and Four (ages 11-16). This section of the STEM elibrary covers the Key Stage Three materials. The timing of the development allowed a particularly close relationship…
Teaching and Learning about the Environment
The Teaching and Learning about the Environment project, from the University of York Science Education Group, produced four packs of resources containing lessons on environmental topics. All lessons were fully supported by photocopiable student materials and accompanied by detailed teachers' notes. The lessons were developed…
Energy and Change
The approach and the materials called Energy and Change were developed during the project 'Teaching about why things change'. The work was done by Jon Ogborn and Richard Boohan from 1992 to 1995 and a grant from the Nuffield Foundation supported the development work. The project set out to devise simple, everyday and coherent…
Problem Solving with Industry
Problem Solving with Industry originally consisted of 30 short problem-solving exercises devised by the Centre for Science Education Sheffield Hallam University in collaboration with a range of industries. A selection of these units were updated and revised to match the requirements of GNVQ Science in 1995. It is this selection which…
Active Teaching and Learning Approaches in Science (ATLAS)
Active Teaching and Learning Approaches in Science (ATLAS) was a curriculum development project organised by the Centre for Science Education at Sheffield Hallam University. The project drew upon the expertise, ideas and suggestions of many science and non-science teachers, educators and expert practitioners from around the country.…
Reading about Science
Reading about Science is a series of five books intended for students to read as supplementary to introductory science courses at the secondary level. The books were first published by Heinemann Educational Books in 1982, when it was generally accepted that science education began in the secondary school. The reading level is carefully…
Ginn Science
The Ginn Science collection, published between 1988 and 1998 by Ginn and Company, comprises a number of different kinds of resource which provide a whole-school programme for teaching and learning primary school science. The collection was developed to meet the requirements, in the early 1990s, of the National Curriculum in England…
Knowledge and Understanding of Science
Knowledge and Understanding of Science was a series of five books written to help teachers in primary schools with background understanding of science. The books deal with the topics in physical science which generally cause the greatest difficulty to primary teachers: Forces, Energy, Chemical changes, Genetics and ecology, Electricity…
TRUMP Astrophysics Project
The Teaching Resources Unit for Modern Physics (TRUMP) is a collaboration between school teachers and academic experts whose aim is to support the teaching of modern physics in post-16 courses. The Astophysics package was published in 1997. It was written primarily to support modules currently available in the A level physics…
SPACE Research Reports
The Primary SPACE reports comprise a series of 10 research reports produced by the Primary Science Processes and Concepts Exploration project. The reports were published between 1990 and 1998 by Liverpool University Press and arise from a research project based jointly at the University of Liverpool and King’s College London,…
SATIS 8-14
SATIS 8-14 was a project of the Association for Science Education which followed from the SATIS and SATIS 16-19 projects SATIS 8-14 materials were photocopiable and flexible. They were intended to enrich work in both the National Curriculum for Science and for Technology. SATIS units were intended to stimulate group work and co-operation.…
Salters' Science
Salters' Science was a complete teaching programme to provide an applications-led approach to double award science at Key Stage Four. It was followed by 'Science Focus', a Key Stage Three programme to illustrate a similar approach to teaching and learning in science. The Salters’ Science materials were developed…
Nuffield Science in Practice
The Nuffield Foundation set up the Nuffield Science in Practice project in 1991 to innovate in the field of vocational science education. Just as work started, the government announced that the National Council of Vocational Qualifications (NCVQ) would be setting up a new general vocational qualification to replace BTECs. The Nuffield…
Revised Nuffield Advanced Science: Chemistry (Third Edition)
The Nuffield Advanced Chemistry course was first published in 1970 and was revised, so this was the third edition of a successful course. In this third edition there was just one students' book for the whole course and one teachers' guide. These were supported by a book of data that students were expected to consult…
Assessing Science in the Primary Classroom
The series of books published under the title Assessing Science in the Primary Classroom resulted from the Science Teacher Action Research (STAR) project. The three-year project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, took place from 1986 to the end of 1989. The project aimed to improve practice in primary school science by involving teachers…
Nuffield Pathways Through Science
The Nuffield Pathways Through Science course was developed to align with the very innovative and successful modular science course created by the Northern Examining and Assessment Board (NEAB now merged into AQA). The Pathways scheme was planned as a flexible resource for teachers who wanted to plan their own programmes of work.…
National Curriculum
The Education Reform Act of 1988 established, amongst other things, the idea of a National Curriculum (NC) for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The National Curriculum set out to “promote the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school and of society”; and “prepare such…
Shaping the Future
This collection of five booklets about post-16 physics was published by the Institute of Physics post-16 Initiative during 1999-2000. Much of the content remains relevant. Though the booklets were primarily designed to promote debate and ideas about the way forward for physics education in schools and colleges, they have also…
Celebrating Centenaries of Famous Discoveries
This collection of resources was devised and published by Association for Science Education (ASE) in the last decade of the twentieth century to celebrate the centenaries of a number of key discoveries in the history of science. The titles • Beyond the Visible - One Hundred Years of X-rays (1995) • One Hundred Years…
Nuffield Primary Science
The Nuffield Primary Science materials were based on the findings of a research project called the Science Processes and Concept Exploration (SPACE). This was the first set of resources published in the UK for primary science teaching that was explicitly based on a constructivist view of learning. The research aims From January…
The World of Science (New SATIS 14-16)
The World of Science was based on a selection of topics from ASE’s SATIS project. The publications contained the best of the thinking of the first project. Units that had stood the test of time were included but they were updated, shortened and amended in the light of experience. Many new units were devised for the project…
Exploring the Nature of Science
This collection brings together two books, each with thirteen units: one for students aged 11-14 and one for those aged 14-16. Each unit consisted of photocopiable student sheets with background notes for the teacher. The units were divided into ‘sessions’, most of which cover a double lesson. Teaching methods The…
Science Across the World
This collection includes the topics that were developed by international teams of teachers participating in Science Across the World between 1991 and 2010. The project was run by the Association for Science Education (ASE). A special feature of the topics is that they are available in several languages. Every topic leads towards…
Earth Science Teachers' Association Resources
The Earth Science Teachers' Association have produced a wide range of resources for use by primary, secondary and post-16 teachers and students. Consisting of a range of printed materials, they include teacher guidance as well as classroom resources. Resources cover general aspects of earth science as well as featuring extensive…
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