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Nuffield Advanced Biology Topic Review: The Artificial Kidney
Published by the Nuffield Foundation the Nuffield Advanced Biology Topic Reviews for students were an integral part of the Advanced Biological Science materials, but each could be read on its own. Thus, students could use them for their current work, or to pursue personal interests.
This topic review...
Nuffield Advanced Biology: Control and Co-ordination in Organisms: a Laboratory Guide
Published by the Nuffield Foundation, the purpose of this Nuffield Advanced Biology Laboratory Guide was to provide a coherent treatment of a series of biological topics, based on laboratory investigations. The approach throughout was centered on enquiry as opposed to...
Nuffield Advanced Biology: Course Guide
This Nuffield Foundation Course Guide was written to give a chapter by chapter breakdown of the Nuffield A-level and AS-level Biology specifications as they were in the 1990s following the introduction of GCSE and the growth of double-award science programmes. The purpose of the course guide was to help students...
Nuffield Advanced Biology: Foundation Unit
The Nuffield Advanced Biology Foundation Unit was designed to help students progress from GCSE science to the Nuffield Advanced Level Biology course as it was in the 1990s. Using brief overviews of some of the topics in the Study Guides, this booklet was designed to...
Published by the Nuffield Foundation, the Nuffield Advanced Biology Study Guide was complementary to the series of Laboratory Guides. This was also a book of investigations but it did not involve practical work and made use of various types of second-hand data instead. It served also as a further source of...
Nuffield Advanced Biology: Key to Pond Organisms
Published by the Nuffield Foundation, this Nuffield Advanced Biology Key was produced to cover the common species of organisms found in static fresh water. The key was illustrated by many drawings accompanied by verbal descriptions. The key was prepared for use in the...
Nuffield Advanced Biology: Laboratory Book - a Technical Guide
This book, published by the Nuffield Foundation, contained information on the practical management of a biological teaching laboratory with special reference to the Nuffield Advanced Biological Science course. Details of the care of living organisms (Section 2), recipes...
Nuffield Advanced Biology: Maintenance of the Organism - a Laboratory Guide
Published by the Nuffield Foundation, the purpose of this Nuffield Advanced Biology Laboratory Guide was to provide a coherent treatment of a series of biological topics, based on laboratory investigations. The approach throughout was centered on enquiry as opposed to...
Nuffield Advanced Biology: Organisms and Populations: a Laboratory Guide
Published by the Nuffield Foundation, the purpose of this Nuffield Advanced Biology Laboratory Guide was to provide a coherent treatment of a series of biological topics, based on laboratory investigations. The approach throughout was centered on enquiry as opposed to...
The work in the Laboratory Guides was of three types.
*Preliminary work aimed to cover possible deficiencies in the students' background and provides reinforcement material for the less able student.
*Main work was within the capacity of the majority of A-level students. The amount of practical work was...