Technical Drawing Courses in Secondary Schools: an HMI Discussion Paper
This paper gives an account of a survey, carried out by HM Inspectors in 1980-81, looking at technical drawing and other drawing office based courses in secondary schools. They also visited 11 industrial companies and 15 institutions of further and higher education to discuss their expectations of students in terms of technical drawing…
Technology and School Science: an HMI Enquiry
This enquiry into technology and school science was conducted by HMI. The report was published in 1985. The enquiry was concerned not only with the specific technology courses offered by science departments but also sought to obtain details of any attempts being made to develop technology across the curriculum, within the general…
Finding Out About Food
Finding Out About Food is an introductory textbook for food technology lessons and was written for students aged nine to fourteen. Each chapter contains a number of self-contained units and comprises experiments and practical activities, and ends with sets of questions and quizzes to reinforce understanding. Ideas are also given…
Toys
The activities in this resource use toys as to investigate scientific concepts and to link between science and design and technology. The activities can be carried out in any order and integrated into an existing scheme of work, or form part of a circus of activities around the classroom. Equipment not normally be used in a science…
APU Leaflets
These three leaflets introduce the work of the Assessment for Performance Unit (APU) design and technology research team. Each one focuses on an aspect of the work that the research helps to answer, providing teachers with techniques and strategies to use in their lessons. The leaflets are: 1. Learning through design and technology 2.…
Design Skills for Work
Design Skills for Work was a two-part report written by the Technology Education Research Unit for the Design Council in 1988. Part one: An exploration of transferability This report looks at how design teaching at different school levels can help to develop transferable skills, strong and weak forms of transferability, teaching…
Information Technology for Craft, Design and Technology
This resource pack, produced by the Microelectronics Education Support Unit (MESU), has been developed with the principal aim of supporting newly appointed Advisory Teachers who have the task of promoting and extending good practice in the use of Information Technology (IT) in the Craft, Design and Technology (CDT) curriculum area.…
Report by HM Inspectors on British School Technology 1986
This report by HM Inspectors begins by outlining the history of the British School Technology (BST), its terms of reference and the extent of the operation in terms of the numbers of teachers trained. Details are given of inspections carried out and a more detailed description of the work carried out by BST at Trent Polytechnic including…
Design and Technological Activity: a Framework for Assessment
This report, from the Assessment of Performance Unit (APU), follows a series of other reports establishing the nature of design and technology. This report was again concerned initially to clarify the parameters of design and technological activity and the features of performance that are crucial. Subsequently, the work of the team…
In Place of Confusion: Technology and Science in the School Curriculum
This report, published by the Nuffield-Chelsea Curriculum Trust, was written in the wake of significant reorganisation of the school system with the development of comprehensive schools and the comprehensive curriculum. The first chapter looks at the changes made to Craft, Design and Technology in schools and considers what further…
Nuffield Home Economics: Worksheets and OHP Masters for the Basic Course
The Basic Course of Nuffield Home Economics was supported by the Nuffield Foundation and devised in collaboration with trial schools and with industrial consultants. The textbook and teachers’ guide were supplemented by a pack of photocopiable worksheets and overhead projector (OHP) masters. These consisted of tables of data,…
Nuffield Home Economics: Teachers’ Guide to the Basic Course
The Basic Course of Nuffield Home Economics was designed for students aged 11–14. The project was supported by the Nuffield Foundation and devised in collaboration with trial schools and with industrial consultants. The teachers' guide was designed to provide maximum support to help teachers to interpret the project's…
Nuffield Home Economics: People and Homes
People and Homes was one of the four topics that featured as a separate area of study in the Nuffield Home Economics course for students aged 14–16. Students were encouraged to recognise the inter-relationships between people and their home environments. The topic drew together themes which had been studied in the three other…
Nuffield Home Economics: Nutrition
Nutrition was one of the four topics that featured as a separate area of study in the Nuffield Home Economics course for students aged 14–16. The course emphasised the influence of food choice on health. The authors appreciated that entrenched attitudes to food and feeding are as likely to influence dietary practice as reasoned…
Nuffield Home Economics: Food Science
Food Science was one of the four topics that featured as a separate area of study in the Nuffield Home Economics course for students aged 14–16. The course was designed to help students understand the scientific principles underlying the practical work they would do in preparing and cooking food. The course provided opportunities…
Nuffield Home Economics: Fibres and Fabrics
Fibres and Fabrics was one of the four topics that featured as a separate area of study in the Nuffield Home Economics course for students aged 14–16. The aim was to allow students to learn textile science in a way that would be useful to them in everyday life. The emphasis in the course was on learning about the industrial…
Nuffield Home Economics: The Basic Course
The Basic Course of Nuffield Home Economics was designed for students aged 11–14. The project was supported by the Nuffield Foundation and devised in collaboration with trial schools and with industrial consultants. Aims The course aimed to: • provide students with a sound knowledge of the major concepts of home…
Understanding Design and Technology 1982
Produced in 1982, this Assessment of Performance Unit discussion document was based on a report prepared by a special working group of the APU which was submitted to the Unit in the Summer of 1980. The group was asked: • to identify those aspects of an understanding of both design and technology most likely to be reflected…
Craft, Design and Technology from 5 to 16 (Curriculum Matters 9): 1987
Produced in 1987, this document written by the Department for Education and Science and HM Inspectorate was intended to stimulate a professional debate and to contribute to reaching national agreement about the objectives and content of the school craft, design and technology curriculum of the time. Context The Government had…
10. Electronics of Control Systems
This Association for Science Education (ASE) publication about the Electronics of Controls Systems was developed in association with Marconi. At the time, the company was in the front rank of the world's defence electronics industry. Its wide range of activities also included space systems and computer-based and sonar underwater…
7. Safety in Gas Appliances
This Association for Science Education (ASE) publication about safety in gas appliances was developed in association with the British Gas Corporation. At the time, this was the only gas industry in the world to be involved in every aspect of gas supply. The booklet contained guidance for teachers and notes for students. It included…
3. Industrial Use of Micro-organisms
This Association for Science Education (ASE) publication about the industrial use of micro-organisms was developed in association with Nipa Laboratories Ltd. At the time, the company was recognised throughout the world as a specialist in the production of microbiocides for use as preservatives and antioxidants, particularly in the…
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2. Optical Fibres in School Physics
This Association for Science Education (ASE) publication about optical fibres was developed in association with the General Electric Company (GEC). At the time of publication GEC was the largest manufacturer of electrical and electronic products in the United Kingdom, and was one of the biggest companies in the world in this field.…
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…
Technology in Schools: Developments in Craft, Design and Technology Departments 1982
Produced in 1982, this Department for Education and Science and HM Inspectorate booklet describes some aspects of technological studies in 90 schools in England and Wales. It gives information about the structure, content and organisation of courses in technology, and about some other ways in which schools attempted to introduce…
National Curriculum Design and Technology Working Group: Interim Report 1988
A report from the National Curriculum Council (NCC). An initial consultation report in November 1988 proposed an ambitious, broad, integrated approach to a range of design and technology-related subjects explored through a wide variety of contexts. It recognised the complex relationship between the knowledge and skills and the practical…
SATIS General Guide for Teachers
The SATIS 'General Guide for Teachers' is a booklet which complements the Teachers' Notes published with the individual SATIS units. It gives more general information about the proejct, about some of the teaching methods, and about other ways of introducing social and technological aspects into the secondary science…
Technology, Invention and Industry
This book from the SISCON series contains stories of inventions, studies two important modern industries (plastics and microelectronics) and looks at the effects of their developments on society in the 1980s. Chapters in this booklet are: *Ingredients for invention - Market pull, scientific knowledge, Technological research,…
Science and Technology in Society 12
SATIS book twelve includes From Babylon to biotechnology, Earthquakes - in Britain?, Radiotelescopes, and Are you made of stardust?. The ten units in this booklet are: 1201 Agrochemicals and the environment: Data handling, information, questions and discussion. Attainment targets 1 and 2. 1202 Mapping the human genome: Reading,…
Science and Technology in Society 11
SATIS book eleven includes A special type of hearing aid, The eruption of Mount St Helens, and Project management. The ten books in this unit are: 1101 Breast or bottle? Information, questions, data-handling, discussion, devising stories, mini role-plays and a design brief. Attainment targets 1,3, 11, 12 and 13. 1102 A special…
Science and Technology in Society 10
SATIS book ten includes Chocolate chip mining, Lavender, Why 240 volts?, and Trees as structures. The ten units in this booklet are: 1001 Chocolate chip mining: A practical, problem-solving activity linked to analysis of data about copper mining. 1002 Quintonal - an industrial hazard: A simulation role-play exercise concerning…
Science and Technology in Society 9
SATIS book nine includes What are the sounds of music?, Which bleach?, Your stars - revelation or reassurance? and IT in greenhouses. The ten units in this booklet are: 901 The chinese cancer detectives: Reading, questions, role-play and practical work related to the story of the identification of the cause of oesophageal cancer…