Balance

It is a wafer-thin disk. It won't stand on its edge. So how can I achieve this as in the picture? A-level Physics students playing for a Twirl trying to balance the disk  A fun lesson intro to discovering centripetal forces.

 

Kidney dissection

 Students having a go at a Kidney dissection, seeing what structures they can identify. As usual some dissections were better than others, but this is a learning environment, and so there were plenty of kidneys to go around and have another go if necessary.

Exploring OS

Getting computers talking together, Linux to Windows to Mac. Creating a web server and setting up a file server. All done fairly inexpensively using a few Raspberry Pi's.

 

The Story of the electron

Recreating the story of the electron as JJ Thomson discovered it. Presenting students with the facts and discoveries and getting them to come up with their own ideas of what they have found. I really want one of these Teltron tubes, but can I justify the cost?

Lascells Gyro

 My new Lascells Gyro arrived. Here is my son trying it out. I put it later in the classroom, where one student spotted it, and we had a brief look at it and saw how it made them rotate on the stool on the turntable as they moved the gyro. They loved it.

Momentum

 Looking at momentum in different ways - using a Lego track with a couple of wagons or the @Pascoscientific track and the ultrasonic sensor show that other measuring systems can achieve the same results.

Maths GCSE to A Level

 Bridging the Gap between Maths GCSE and A-Level is very hard for some students, that is why over the holidays I look at the skills the students should have learnt at GCSE but didn't.