Teaching A Level #Physics online using a force table. The student needed to tell me which hander to add and remove masses to achieve balanced forces. With some students still isolating it is essential that they do some practical work #iteachphysics
Sunday, 4 July 2021
Saturday, 3 July 2021
Making a Salt from an insoluble metal oxide and Acid
A busy morning making Copper Sulfate from Copper Oxide and Sulfuric Acid. The students enjoy doing the practicals they are not able or allowed to do at school. This one is a required practical that the school only told them about. #teaching I made a full video of this on YouTube which is very popular.
Friday, 2 July 2021
Human Eye
Using the @pascoscientific model of the human eye to teach A level #Physics students about how the les in the eye works and how glasses solve problems in the eye. #iteachphysics
Thursday, 1 July 2021
Changing the shape of the lens in human eye model
Using the @pascoscientific adjustable lens in the human eye model and with ray boxes. Its great to be able to show the biology and physics students how the human eye lens works getting thicker and thinner rather than using fixed shaped lenses. #iteachphysics #teaching
The lens consists of two sheets of plastic with water in the middle and connected to a syringe. If water is pushed into the eye the lens gets fatter and becomes convex in shape. As water is removed the lens becomes concave in shape.. Adjusting the amount of water changes the dioptre of the lens. Fascinating to watch and use.
Wednesday, 30 June 2021
New Light Source
My new @pascoscientific light box from @SciChemEdu arrived and now I can try to get the human eye model to work using this arrow arrangement on the light. Seems to be a good light source with different slits to try out. #iteachphysics
Tuesday, 29 June 2021
Ideal Gas Equipment to teach Gas Lws
Using the @pascoscientific Ideal Gas law equipment connected to a chemistry sensor and wireless interface connected to Capstone software from @SciChemEdu to explain the Gas laws to A Level students studying #Physics using this the Gas Laws are easily demonstrated. #iteachphysics
Monday, 28 June 2021
Glass Bending
Bending glass stirring rods to make petri dish spreaders for making a lawn of bacteria. Couldn't find any to buy so made my own. The students like learning to heat and bend glass to make useful parts. #STEM #microbiology
Doppler Rocket
Demonstrating the Doppler effect with the @pascoscientific Doppler Rocket: As the rocket moves away, students can hear the pitch drop (red s...
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Negative feedback is a difficult concept to try and get over so I tried using a balance board and the @pascoscientific smart cart strapped...
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We went to the Bett Show a few weeks ago and there we saw a model of a Liver. It had been knitted so we thought we would have a go. After ...
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#Physics Taking wind speed readings using the PASCO scientific wireless weather station. Grabbing some monthly data on the weather in t...