Nuffield Science Teaching Project: Part one of a series of reviews of the Nuffield science books, as published Available to Purchase

BIOLOGY Biology Texts I and III 15s 6d and 17s 6d Biology Teachers' Guides I and III 15s and 20s Synopsis of the Biology Teaching Project Text I Perhaps a better and more indicative title would have been ‘A laboratory manual’. The style is chatty, intimate and personal (we and you). Detail instructions are often further illustrated with many diagrams (sometimes, unfortunately, on the other side of the page) and there is a margin area almost equal to that occupied by print and diagrams — space seems to be no object. The text itself is brief, logically set out and illustrated by diagrams and photographs of very high quality. Very few teachers will quarrel with the content as a first year introductory course which appears to be suitable for a vast majority of 11‐plus school children in this country. The chapter on locusts and the topic on reproduction (which includes detailed examination by the pupils of living, developing hens' eggs and Xenopus) read like a waft of fresh air. The ‘background reading’ found at the end of most chapters and the very frequent questions interspersed in the text will be most useful for homework. It is a most pleasingly produced book, rather lavish in format and perhaps unnecessarily rather expensive.