Expansion of Metals

Exploring metal heating and properties, especially the bimetallic strip. 🌡️ Some essential topics vanish from the syllabus and skip years 7-9. It's concerning when Year 11 students miss out! 📚 #ScienceEducation #TeachingEssentials

 

Ligands

Making some very pretty ligands using Conc HCl with Copper Chloride to make the yellow colour of  CuCl2 and then Ammonia Solution to make the deep blue of Copper  Ammonia ligands, then onto bidentate with ethylenediamine and then  a multidentate with EDTA

 

New Casio Calculator

 The new Casio fx-85GT CW is different to the older calculators. It is very different to use and has new menus. Many of the usual features are hidden behind menus and many new exciting and useful features, such as number lines.

Pressure Temperature Law

Using the @pascoscientific wireless pressure sensor to understand the pressure-temperature law. As the temperature increases the pressure increases if the volume remains constant.

 

Solving Quadratics

 A-level Maths: Many students need to remember that all the papers are calculator papers, and they can use the calculators to solve the quadratic and use the graphing functions to help them see the shapes of graphs.

Centripetal force

 Demonstrating that a spinning ball in a glass can be lifted into the air.

Which natural antiseptic works the best

A good fun practical all made with natural ingredients to investigate which is the most effective antiseptic plant extract to kill bacteria. As well as some of the normal heroes students tried out some of their own ideas