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...

Years 1 and 2 of Revised Nuffield Physics were planned as years of gaining acquaintance with materials, their properties and behaviour. These years also introduced various instruments, and the way scientists do things, and just a little of the way scientists talk. They were intended, as in the original...

The General Introduction to Revised Nuffield Physics explained the rationale for the changes and provided an overview of the course as a whole. In the first edition the general introduction was included at the beginning of the Teachers’s Guides to...

This set of resource, from the Association for Science Education (ASE) provide examples of revision activities.The resources are provided as both PDF and Word file format, so teachers may amend them for different classes and topics.

*Pick a number - students choose numbers from a grid to answer quiz...

Students are asked to write their name on squared paper, identify the right angles and count the number of right angles. Students then draw two mathematical shapes which contain right angles.

This activity from Cre8ate maths looks at the exciting mathematics connected with the regeneration going on in our cities. The three activities are based around the construction of rigid structures and provide opportunities for practical work and mathematical problem...

This podcast from the Planet Earth Online collection and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) looks at why understanding rip currents at Perranporth in north Cornwall could help save lives; and how exactly does carbon capture and storage (CCS) work and how can scientists be sure that CO2 will be stored...