Teaching out on the pavement using the @pascoscientific Doppler Rocket to demonstrate the Doppler effect as the sound changes as the rocket comes towards you and moves away. Helping us to learn about red shift in a practical way.
Thursday, 25 January 2024
Wednesday, 24 January 2024
Invariant Matrices
Further Maths - Investigating Linear Transformations. Discovering Invariant Points and Lines. Learning how Matricies can help real-world problems.
Tuesday, 23 January 2024
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.
Monday, 22 January 2024
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.
Sunday, 21 January 2024
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?
Saturday, 20 January 2024
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?
Friday, 19 January 2024
Making Ligands
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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...