Analysing nuffield foundation and salters science

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Oliver bird Rheumatism Programme

Africa Programme

Social Science Small Grants Scheme

Nuffield Foundation Science Bursaries Projects take place during the summer holidays, giving students an insight into the world of scientific research and development. Students in the first year of a post-16 science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) course are eligible to apply for a bursary of £80 per week to support them during their project. Placements are available across the UK, in universities, industry or research institutions. They welcome applications from students doing vocational courses as well as academic ones. Recent projects in Foundations for learning include a longitudinal study to examine the relationship between the use of mobile phone slang and grammatical development, and a study of the impact of month of birth on child development. Nuffield Curriculum Centre Primary level

Curriculum support materials consist of 11 teachers' guides at each of KS1 and KS2 covering different topics such as Materials and Forces.

There is one pupils' book to match each teacher’s guide at KS1 and two books (one for each of Years 3-4 and 5-6) to match each teacher’s guide at KS2.

These books were published by Collins Education. They are out of print, but are widely available in college libraries. One can get the general idea of how the SPACE approach works in practice by studying any one of these teachers' guide. Each teachers’ guide consists of •

Summary of the SPACE approach, useful strategies, experimental and investigative science, and planning

Finding out children’s ideas: starter activities

Examples of children’s work showing their ideas

Activities to help children to develop their ideas

Assessment: examples of children’s work with notes on the level they have reached.

Salters Science In 1918 the Salters' Company founded the Salters' Institute of Industrial Chemistry, initially to assist young chemistry students returning from the war to complete their studies.


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