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...

Teacher's Guide 1 for Nuffield Junior Science gives the educational philosophy behind the project and how this applies in the classroom. Teacher's Guide 2 provides examples in the form of extended cases studies of work completed in classrooms with children aged 5 to 11.
The Apparatus guide collects together a...

Teacher’s Guide 1 of the Nuffield Junior Science Project sets out the general educational philosophy of the project based on the project team's observations of children. It then tries to interpret that philosophy in terms of practical classroom situations, with chapters...

Teacher’s Guide 2 of the Nuffield Junior Science Project is largely a collection of reports of samples of work done by classes in the pre-pilot and pilot areas. It attempts to show how children of a wide range of age, ability, and social background, taught by a...

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
• ...

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 Chemistry modules:
*Materials – featuring features solutions and a variety of...

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 five physics modules:

• Energy Resources – exploring the issues arising from the...

Nuffield Pathways Through Science was reorganised to match the new NEAB Modular Science specifications following the 1995 revisions to the National Curriculum. Much of the content of the programme was unchanged but the modules were cut to 12 and the materials...

The Introduction and Guide to Nuffield Physical Science set out the aims and general philosophy of the course. This was a novel course and the Guide set out to explain its nature, and place in the curriculum, to teachers and students.

The first Student Workbook for Nuffield Physical Science began with an extensive introduction to this novel course for students. The Workbook was not designed as a textbook. The content of each section was arranged on the same plan, and each contained four types of...

The second Student Workbook for Nuffield Physical Science began with an extensive introduction to this novel course for students. The Workbook was not designed as a textbook.

The content of each section was arranged on the same plan, and each contained four types of material: 'Introduction', passages of '...

The Nuffield Physical Science Sourcebook was designed to give students further information on various parts of the course, to inspire them to read as widely as possible, and to provide them with practice in comprehending scientific prose. It consisted of articles about many topics related to the themes of the...