Studies leading to the revision of Nuffield Chemistry showed that the introduction of topics that had seemed revolutionary in the mid-60s (such a structure, rates, energy changes and chemical equilibrium) had been widely accepted as desirable. However, the research...

The revision of Stage III of Revised Nuffield Chemistry put more emphasis on applied, social and historical aspects of chemistry. This was in response to feedback from teachers that the original version of Stage III included too many academic options that overlapped...

The Laboratory Investigation sheets for Stage 1A and...

The Laboratory Investigation sheets for Stage II of...

The Handbook for Pupils was one of the main innovations of Revised Nuffield Chemistry. It was written in response to the many requests from teachers for more support for students in the form of a textbook.

The book...

The revision of Nuffield Chemistry replaced the Stage I Background Books of the first edition of Nuffield Chemistry with twelve short study sheets. The sheets were printed in colour on folded papers that were punched ready for student files.

The aim of the sheets was to...

Revised Nuffield Chemistry Teachers’ Guide I incorporated much of the experience fed back from teachers in the light of experience. The purposes of the teaching in each topic were made clearer. The text of the revised experiment sheets was incorporated into the teacher...

Revised Nuffield Chemistry offered two routes through Stage II. Stage IIA followed the same general order as in the original Sample Scheme...

The Nuffield Physics course for students aged 11–16 was first published in 1966. The course was revised and republished in 1977 following extensive consultations with teachers and visits to see the course in action in schools. Feedback from the O-level examiners also...

The Revised Nuffield Physics books for students were not conventional textbooks. In line with the aim of teaching for understanding, the books contained instructions for experiments and a large number of questions. The text for Year 3 did not include answers to...

The Revised Nuffield Physics books for students were not conventional textbooks. In line with the aim of teaching for understanding, the books contained instructions for experiments and a large number of questions. The text for Year 5 did not include answers to...

The Revised Nuffield Physics books for students were not conventional textbooks. In line with the aim of teaching for understanding, the books contained instructions for experiments and a large number of questions. The text for years 1 and 2 did not include answers – or expositions of theory to be learnt.

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The Teachers’ Guides for Revised Nuffield Physics sought to convey the spirit of the approach and its rationale while providing all the technical details for the experiments (based on the Guides to Experiments in the first edition). The guides suggested a language for talking about ideas in physics at an...

The Teachers’ Guides for Revised Nuffield Physics sought to convey the spirit of the approach while providing all the technical details for the experiments (based on the Guides to Experiments in the first edition). The guides suggested a language for talking about ideas in physics at an appropriate level at each...

The authors of Revised Nuffield Physics hoped that the third year of the course would be a year of capable play in physics, for students with a wide variety of abilities and interests. They wanted students to enjoy being scientists, doing experiments and sometimes thinking about them.

Year 3 included two...