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This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.
Nuffield Secondary Science carried out the ‘bold experimentation’ necessary to devise a new curriculum for the majority of students in secondary schools that the Newsom Report, Half Our Future had called for in 1963.
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This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.
Most of the publications produced by the Nuffield Secondary Science project were designed to provide ideas for teachers. The detailed guidance was intended to help teachers to plan and implement science courses for the three-quarters of young people in secondary schools that would not take O-level.
The books...
Nuffield Secondary Science: Theme 1 - The Interdependence of Living Things
This Nuffield Secondary Science theme suggests ways to help students arrive at an understanding of aspects of interdependence, and an appreciation of the importance of animal and plant conservation. The laboratory investigations develop from problems identified during...
Nuffield Secondary Science: Theme 2 - The Continuity of Life
This Nuffield Secondary Science theme deals with the continuity of life, not only in the short term from generation to generation, but also in the long term, when the cumulative picture of many generations appears to indicate an evolution. As a result, the theme includes two very important concepts related to...
Nuffield Secondary Science: Theme 3 - Biology of Man
The summary in the teachers’ guide for Nuffield Secondary Science states that when studying this theme, students learn by asking questions and seeking answers to questions about themselves in particular and about mankind in general.
...Nuffield Secondary Science: Theme 4 - Harnessing Energy
The Nuffield Secondary Science theme suggests a wide range of experiences and investigations from which the idea of energy conservation can gradually emerge. The resources, like other 1960s Nuffield programmes, describe energy changes in terms of energy conversions from...
Nuffield Secondary Science: Theme 5 - Extension of Sense Perception
This Nuffield Secondary Science theme explores the devices that can be used to extend the range of sensitivity of the human senses.
Areas for investigation
The information in the theme book...
Nuffield Secondary Science: Theme 6 - Movement
This Nuffield Secondary Science theme is designed to develop an understanding of the extent to which a few physical principles underlie the wide range of phenomena encompassed by the idea of movement in the modern world.
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