Pascals Vases

 Lots of experiments are done every year, but sometimes, looking at different experiments, like Pascal's Vases, provides some interesting ideas, especially to help students think about designing experiments.

Compound Microscopes

Learning how to make slides of stained cheek cells and view them on a Compound Microscope and then record the sample by using the students' phones. Not many successes but we had more luck with some prepared slides.

 

Educational Terms

These are a few of the Abbreviations  I use when marking students' work. What ones do you use or have been used on you?

Apple IIe

One of the iconic computers of its time - The Apple IIe. The students could see how large all the chips were and the size and capacity of the 5 1/4 floppy disks. How could you manage these programs with so little memory and no mouse?

 

Making Ligands

Making Ligands and looking at their shape with the aid of Molymod models. I like how Copper ions which are normally blue turn yellow when making a Copper Chloride ligand.

 

Determining G by Freefall

 A Picket Fence and a @pascoscientific Lightgate and a simple drop and pretty accurate values every time. Some students believe they have discovered a gravitational anomaly in part of the classroom, or this could be a student error.

Maths in Science

 Sometimes, the Maths required in Science, especially Physics, exceeds the Maths learnt and required in Maths. So what is there to do but teach Maths in the Science lessons so the students can learn the Math required.