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.



 

“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...