02 June 2025

Adaptions


 GCSE Biology: How are animals adapted to their environment? This insect has a long mouth part so that it can drink the nectar found in plants. The insect has many other adaptations, such as its feet, to hold onto surfaces that appear smooth.

01 June 2025

Free at Last


A level Sociology - Religion and Social Change Martin Luther King Jr I have a dream speech ends with Free at last! Free at Last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at Last! August 28, 1963. Racial and injustice in the USA compared to the UK

31 May 2025

Reusable Code


 The Ribbon Bands in Microsoft 365 provide an indication of the amount of reusable code used across all their applications. Reusable code is a good idea since routines only have to be written once for many applications and once working can be left alone.

30 May 2025

Glass Bending


 Not really Chemistry, but learning to heat glass tubing and bend it to make delivery tubes for an experiment.

29 May 2025

Interferometer


An Interferometer setup using a @pascoscientific wire sound sensor to record the data. Sound from a loudspeaker connected to a signal generator is fed into the interferometer. The sound then travels in both directions around the tube to the Pasco sound sensor. The length of one of the paths is then changed, and the signal is analysed

23 May 2025

Chromatography


Rather than chromatography of coloured pens, it is a bit more exciting to see if the green extract of plant leaves is a single substance. Collecting leaves, grinding them up, and then running the Chromatogram in Petroleum Ether introduces solvents other than water.

 

22 May 2025

Determine the mass of an AA Battery


 Using the @pascoscientific Metre stick and the Torque Mass Hanger set to determine the mass of an AA Battery.

Making and Using a Point Quadrat (The Easy PVC Version)

  Making and Using a Point Quadrat (The Easy PVC Version) Point quadrats are one of those bits of ecology kit that sound simple… but are su...