The Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences team devised a science course covering biology, chemistry and physics in two subjects-worth of curriculum time. This was in line with the 1985 government policy statement Science 5 - 16 which set down the requirement for schools to provide courses of broad balanced science for all...

The Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences supplementary Worksheets and Teachers' guide for Biology enabled teachers to prepare students for separate-subject Biology GCSE examinations. The extra worksheets were arranged to fit in with the topics in the teaching order suggested for the...

The Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences Biology course aimed to introduce the biological principles which would help students to explain many of the phenomena they will observe in the natural world. It was also designed to help students towards a greater understanding of the functioning of their own bodies and their...

The Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences Biology book was illustrated in full colour in both editions. There was no change in content between the two editions. The file for this resource is the second edition which used more colour in the design. The text included explanatory text, and questions. Symbols in the margins...

Most of the Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences Biology Worksheets were the same in both editions of the course. Extra worksheets were published in an Upgrade Pack for the second edition. There is a full list of all the biology worksheets at the start of the biology section...

The rationale and detailed guidance on the teaching of Nuffield Co-ordinated was provided in a single, large Teachers’ Guide. The Guide was arranged in parts. These parts are presented separately in this collection of resources. The first part of the Teachers’ Guide set out the aims and structure of the course. In...

The Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences supplementary Worksheets and Teachers' Guides were published to enable teachers to prepare students for separate-subject GCSE examinations in the three sciences. The extra worksheets were arranged to fit in with the topics in the teaching orders suggested for the main course.

The contents of the Biology strand of Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences were broadly the same in both the first and second editions of the publications. The second edition of the Teachers’ Guide showed how the course matched to the 1992 version of the National Curriculum...

Nuffield Combined Science was planned as a two-year course for students aged 11 to 13. It could be adapted for use with the whole range of ability. The course was very widely adopted. By 1979 it had been taken up, in whole or in part, by over half of all secondary...

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics engages in a number of educational activities to encourage discussion of bioethics issues among young people. One of these activities is to produce teaching resources on subjects that are covered in its reports. The resources are designed to fit into science and citizenship lessons...

Nutrition was one of the four topics that featured as a separate area of study in the Nuffield Home Economics course for students aged 14–16. The course emphasised the influence of food choice on health. The authors appreciated that entrenched attitudes to food and...

The Nuffield Junior Science project was part of the Nuffield Foundation Science Teaching Project in the 1960s. In the publications, the project team suggested topics and methods to teachers interested in the contribution which science can make to the education of...

The Nuffield Junior Science Project published three background booklets to supplement the information in the Teacher’s Guides.

The three readers were an attempt to help fulfil the need that teachers feel for greater background knowledge of subject matter. In the three books, the project team set out to give...

The Nuffield Pathways Through Science course was developed to align with the very innovative and successful modular science course created by the Northern Examining and Assessment Board (NEAB now merged into AQA).

The...

The Nuffield Pathways Through Science course was developed to align with the very innovative and successful modular science course created by the Northern Examining and Assessment Board (NEAB now merged into AQA).

There were three biology modules:

• Bodywise – covering human biology
• ...