Resources by Nuffield Foundation
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Energy Resources
This Nuffield Pathways Through Science module provides a programme of activities designed to help students to appreciate that current ways of supplying the energy needs of society are not sustainable. The module is presented in six episodes:
En 1: What are the...
Energy: 2000
This Nuffield Working with Science unit was designed to introduce students to the concept of Britain's impending 'energy gap', how it will occur, and what we might do to bridge it. The unit features a substantial decision-making element.
...Enterprise
This Nuffield Working with Science unit showed students how to plan, fund, carry out and complete their own enterprise designed to make money.
Guidance for this topic appears in the...
Environmental Geometry
This guide from the Nuffield Mathematics Project delves deeper in to how the study of the Environmental can lead to geometrical work. The importance of the environment as a source for mathematical ideas was stressed throughout the main teachers’ guides. The range of activities discussed in this Guide extends beyond...
This set of resources was originally developed for post 16 applied science specifications and include practical activities and study sheets. Resources include:
...Enzyme technology
In this activity, students are asked to make a bioreactor containing an immobilised enzyme and use it to produce lactose reduced milk. They then assess the effect that temperature has on the enzyme driven reaction within the bioreactor.
Errors
This resource is part of a Nuffield Maths collection exploring Shape and Space. The demand is roughly equivalent to that in Higher Level GCSE and Level 2 Functional Mathematics.
The ‘Errors’ resource contains examples that can be used to:
• find the upper and lower bounds of measurements, given the...
Errors *suitable for home teaching*
The Nuffield Foundation provides this activity which uses examples in the context of shape and space to help students understand how big errors may be, and how errors accumulate when measurements are used in calculations. This is particularly important in scientific contexts. Students are required to find the upper...
Estimating environmental damage in freshwater
Students compare the water quality at different points in a stream or river using the standard procedure for finding the Trent Biotic Index score for samples of freshwater invertebrates. The test was developed by the Trent River authority to detect water pollution. It allows comparisons of water quality to be made...
Every Second Counts
In this Nuffield practical exploration students explore how far away they could travel in one hour. Knowledge of the locality and reference to various maps and timetables, possibly via the internet, is essential in planning a route.
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