Wednesday, 31 July 2024

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.



 

Tuesday, 30 July 2024

Solar Furnace


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

Monday, 29 July 2024

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.


 

Thursday, 25 July 2024

Pasco Code Node



 

The @pascoscientific Code Node is great when you need a special type of sensor and the students can program this using blocky code to do exactly what they need it to do. With its array of sensors the students can use them individually or combined to measure a particular effect.

Wednesday, 24 July 2024

Maths in the Holidays

 


Maths in the Holidays. Playing catch up during the long break to consolidate students' Maths skills so they can keep up next term before GCSEs and A Levels. Missing something during term time - it is only sometimes possible to go back over a failed concept.

Tuesday, 23 July 2024

Free Body Diagrams

Physics in the Holidays - looking at free body diagrams with vectors to simplify complex systems into something that can easily be measured and using the force board with rulers, protractors, and some trig to compare theory with practice.
 

Monday, 22 July 2024

Identification

Identification. What is an insect? What features does it have? Can you tell an insect from an arthropod - some were easy like these, and others were far more difficult. 




 

Complex Cubic Root

Having some fun with math—solving a cubic equation with one real root and a pair of complex conjugate roots. Exploring the fascinating inter...