Building a DNA Molecule

 Biology in the Holidays. The students created Nucleotide bases and Deoxyribose sugars and then assembled them to create part of a DNA molecule. The students found the scale, complexity, and simplicity of this Molecule quite fascinating.

Full Adder

 Computing in the Holidays. Time to create simple logic circuits from AND, OR, NOT and XOR gates. Creating circuits like full adders and half adders gives the students ideas on how computers work and in programming, making our own AI.

Solving Quadratics

 GCSE Maths in the Holidays. Many schools don't seem to teach students how to use calculators effectively, what their functions are, and what they can do. We have time in the holidays to do this using all types of calculators to make life easy.

Drop Counter

 Chemistry in the Holidays. Different ways of doing a titration. Using the @pascoscientific drop counter, the machine drops a measured drop into the solution and records the count so that beautiful acid/alkali neutralisation graphs can be obtained.

Dynamic Equilibria Demo

Chemistry in the Holidays. Playing with a dynamic Equilibria Cobalt Chloride in conc HCl. Adjusting the temperature, ice water or boiling water pushes the equilibrium one way or the other to make it either pink or blue.



 

Solar Furnace

 Physics in the Holidays. Opportunities to lay with the solar furnace as we are forecast a sunny day.

Mutations

Biology in the Holidays. The same plants growing near to one another. The pink one is the mutation as the normal varieties are white. One base change in a gene affects the colour of the plant. We investigate how this can happen.