01 May 2024
Exam Practice
Running out of exam questions. Some students have been improving their skills by doing loads of exam questions, but what happens when you run out as many do. Look at other exam boards - the format isn't the same but Science and Maths doesn't change.
30 April 2024
Diffraction grating prism
Using a Diffraction grating as a prism and measuring the angles to show how we can look and measure starlight
29 April 2024
Current speed on the River Thames
Measuring the current speed on the River Thames. It has dropped considerably in the past couple of weeks and was doing a steady 1.1 mph
27 April 2024
TRS-80 Model 100
The TRS-80 Model 100 coming out for its annual outing, showing to the students a working laptop computer from 40 years ago.
26 April 2024
Chemistry visualising problems
Stereochemistry is very difficult to visualise, even sometimes when playing with models. Even looking at this, some students couldn't really fathom out handedness and needed to play with the models until they could rationalise their thoughts.
25 April 2024
Electricity Revision
The challenge: Revise all the electricity Topic in 1 hour and carry out 3 required practicals. Easy with the @pascoscientific voltage/current sensor and Capstone, printing out perfect graphs of the results for all the students. All the Demos were done by students. Even I was surprised at the speed we covered all the experiments.
24 April 2024
Lascells Cloud Chamber
This is what a cloud chamber should be like. This is the Lascells Cloud Chamber. It is set up in minutes, and after 5 or so minutes, trails from the supplied Thorium welding Rod can be seen, and the students can see the radiation.
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“Why the Rate-Determining Step Is Not Always Obvious” A-Level Chemistry
“Why the Rate-Determining Step Is Not Always Obvious” A student sees a three-step mechanism and immediately chooses the slowest-looking s...
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How hot is the soil vs the air? Time to take the @pascoscientific wireless temperature sensors for a summer stroll. 🌱 Taking Science Out...
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Physics GCSE: Electricity in the Home – What You Really Need to Know Electricity in the home is one of those GCSE Physics topics that feels...
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Maths GCSE: Turning Recurring Decimals into Fractions (Without Panic) Recurring decimals look scary at first glance. Lots of dots, myster...
