Revised Nuffield physics: teachers' guide - Year 5
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 appropriate level at each stage of the course.
The guides did not include answers to the many questions in the parallel student texts. The Preface to Year 5 included a discussion of how the course could help to prepare students to be educated citizens as well as meeting the needs of future science specialists. The authors explain that the Year 5 Guide is long and discursive because the notes are offered to many different teachers with varied interests and experience, for guidance in following a new programme of teaching. Many of the experiments have been re-presented, with modern guidance on health and safety, on the Practical Physics website.
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