Resources by Macdonald Educational

This book is the first of three volumes which together provide the 'A' level physics student with an accurate and...

Calculating aids (Macdonald education colour units)

Part of a series, this book offers teachers a variety of ways in which they can offer children activities which will introduce them to the scientific basis of the animate/inanimate world. The techniques of exploring, observing, manipulating, comparing and more are encouraged.

Part of a series, this book offers teachers a variety of ways in which they can offer children activities which will introduce them to the way that an understanding of physical science can lead to a parallel understanding of technology.

This is an investigation of the things and places around us which relates something of their past. It includes ideas and activities designed to encourage children to explore their environment. Topics covered include school, home, streets, shops, weather, churches, building sites, rocks and pebbles, canals, and...

This book begins with a simple qualitative account of the nucleus and the atom, leading to the structure of solids and the effect of heat, change of state and liquids and gases. Other chapters deal with vapours, temperature scales and measurement, mirrors, refraction, elementary acoustics and physical optics.

Secondary mathematics series from the 1970s.

This Science 5/13 unit for teachers on Change stages one and two describes a range of activities that build children’s ideas about change and how it occurs. Rather than being a topic to pursue as a whole, it contains ideas that can be woven into other topics. However, one theme 'Changes in the kitchen' has been...

This Science 5/13 unit for teachers Plastics for stages one and two is concerned with children’s exploration of the man-made plastics in the world around. It is not concerned with the chemistry or the production of plastics but with the variety and uses of plastics. The unit falls into two main sections. The first...

Science 5/13 is aimed at helping teaches help children between the ages of five and thirteen years to learn science through first-hand experience using a variety of methods. The project produces books that comprise units dealing with subject areas...