Mammals in Classrooms
This book was written by the Nuffield Junior Science project team to explain how mammals kept in the classroom can be used for the purpose of teaching young children. Some scientific background information is included, but this, as well as details of caring for the animals, is provided for reference in Chapter 1, 'Mammals',…
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…
Autumn into Winter
This book was written by the Nuffield Junior Science project to show teachers how seasonal materials offer children many opportunities to carry out simple investigations. The aim was to help children to build up, over the years, a picture of the continuity and wholeness of the natural world which the more traditional teaching of…
Chemistry Laboratory Investigations Stage III
This resource was designed to help students aged 15-16 to build up their notes while working through selected options in Stage III 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…
Chemistry Sample Scheme Stage III: A Course of Options
Stage III was the last part of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme which was intended to give students opportunities for applying skills and ideas met in Stages I and II to a number of selected fields of study. Teachers were expected to choose options to suit the abilities and interests of the students in their classes. The…
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: •…
Sample Scheme Stages I and II: the Basic Course
This Nuffield Chemistry book was published in 1966 as a result of the demands for more detailed information from teachers who had taken part in the first trials of the new approach to teaching chemistry in the early 1960s. The authors warn that the Sample Scheme set out in the book probably contains more detail than many teachers…
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…
Teachers' Guide to Special Studies
The Teachers’ Guide to the Nuffield Advanced Chemistry Special Studies set out for each study the objectives for each topic, suggested teaching approaches, technical information about the practical work, specimen results and advice on further sources of information. Contents • Introduction • Biochemistry •…
Collected Experiments
Collected Experiments contains all the experiments used in the sample scheme together with many others. It is intended for the use of teachers, and its purpose is two-fold: 1. to provide alternative experiments in case those given for the sample scheme are not suited to the particular conditions under which the teacher is working. 2.…