Monday, 30 September 2024
AS Sociology
A-Level Sociology Private Tuition: How do parents' educations affect their children? Are some parents given more support than others, and how do these affect their education? Real-life experiences from the students give valuable insight.
Repeating Molecules
A-Level Biology Tuition: Repeating molecules are the backbone of all cells. Simple sugars become carbohydrates, amino acids become proteins, Lipids for double membranes - soap experiment - and nucleotide bases with sugar and phosphate make up DNA and RNA.
Saturday, 28 September 2024
Different SSD's
GCSE Computer Studies Tuition: The students are studying the different types of SSD technology found in their computers and how Hard disk technology has completely changed over the past few years.
Friday, 27 September 2024
Atomic Shapes
A-Level Chemistry Tuition: Looking at the shapes of the Atomic orbitals to try and make some sense of the features we see in the periodic table - the evidence for s and p orbitals and how the shapes fit inside each other - where this model falls down.
Thursday, 26 September 2024
Creating a calibration Curve
A-level Biology Tuition: My students create a series of serial dilutions of Glucose to work out the concentration of an unknown. They use the @pascoscientific colourimeter to create a calibration curve and Benedict's solution to make a quantitative assay.
Wednesday, 25 September 2024
GCSE Higher Maths
GCSE Math Tutoring: I work with GCSE Students to increase their chances of getting higher grades. Each week, they come to me not being able to do something, and they go away being able to do this. Soon, they run out of things they can't do.
Tuesday, 24 September 2024
Force and Distance
GCSE Physics Tuition: Students investigate how the force changes with the distance from the fulcrum as we investigate moments, gears, pullies, and levers.
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Doppler Rocket
Demonstrating the Doppler effect with the @pascoscientific Doppler Rocket: As the rocket moves away, students can hear the pitch drop (red s...
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Negative feedback is a difficult concept to try and get over so I tried using a balance board and the @pascoscientific smart cart strapped...
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We went to the Bett Show a few weeks ago and there we saw a model of a Liver. It had been knitted so we thought we would have a go. After ...
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#Physics Taking wind speed readings using the PASCO scientific wireless weather station. Grabbing some monthly data on the weather in t...