Factorising

 GCSE Maths - working on factorising - taking one term out and fully factorising taking more than one term out. Plenty of practice using the Wacom pen and screens.

Sounds

Learning all about sound. Using the Oscilloscope to see the sound made by different instruments and things. Looking at the difference between repeating sounds and once-only events.

 

small quadrat

 This is the time of year when many teachers reach the end of the course and find they need to use the quadrants. Few plants are around, and the weather is poor. I use photographs from the camera quadrant and get the students to analyse these.

I have a series of transects looking at different environments and various random samples from different types of fields and meadows. The students can go outside and try the techniques but they can all analyse the same data.

Cleaning a motherboard

Teaching students that maintaining computers is vital to keep them going. Regularly blowing out all the dust, cleaning the dirty fans, and getting out all the dust can keep the computer going.

Online Chemistry

 Investigating Chemistry mechanisms online using Snatoms to examine how nucleophilic and electrophilic substitution work in 3D.

Desalination

 Helping students to understand distillation using a cold finger to help with the desalination of water. Sea water is harder to come by here in the Middle of England so we made our own from sea salt crystals from Cornwall.

Doppler Rocket

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.