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Back to work today with more A level Physics, looking at terminal velocity in a long tube of water and using a @pascoscientific rotary motion sensor to calculate the velocity. #iteachphysics #Science #STEM
Last lesson before Christmas and its A Level Maths. I have been teaching more Maths this year, its the demand from the students having missed so much. I thought it would be science but its not...
Looking at Barton's Pendulums. An interesting problems on why they move the way they do. Amazed at how many nearly right explanations I got. #iteachphysics #Science #STEM
Seismic Waves are easy to understand but the fact that a seismograph pen stays where it is whilst the machine moves isn't. #iteachphysics #Science #STEM
How does the length of a tube affect the note. Yes I could use a sonometer but the trombone is much more fun. #iteachphysics #Science #STEM
I always enjoy this experiment with the speaker, square plate and some salt or sand vibrating #iteachphysics #Science #STEM
I am seeing how becoming more mature (ok old) that when I put the lid on the Space Tube I can't hear the sound let alone when I remove the air. Fortunately the students still have good hearing and tell me. #iteachphysics #Science #STEM
Crude Oil fractional distillation. Looking at many different types of fuels and why to use or not use them.
I can't understand why I can't pull these apart. There is nothing in there holding them together.
What is the air pressure inside a balloon? The students were amazed at the answer using a @pascoscientific wireless pressure sensor and Capstone to prove the pressure didn't really change. #teachphysics #STEM #Science
Investigating Photosynthesis and the distance of the light source and the inverse square law. I find you have to get the light very close to get bubbles that you can measure.
Making up our own resistors using Locktronics by @MatrixTSL Predicting The total resistance and then measuring it to see if correct using Ohms Law. #iteachphysics #STEM
Doing a distillation in organic chemistry to separate the products. Explaining why the water has to go up the condenser - seemed so strange to the students.
Using @pascoscientific Capstone to look at specific heat capacities Graphs showed the different uptakes of of the heat in the same time, which gave a better idea of this concept of specific heat capacity. #iteachphysics @chatphysics #STEM
#Physics Investigating the properties of a thermistor using Locktronics by @MatrixTSL and then having to turn this into a make shift digital thermometer using some coding on a Raspberry Pi and some Python. #iteachphysics #Science #STEM
#Physics trying to show that resistors give off heat is fairly difficult, but with this device it is easy. The students loved it. #iteachphysics #Science #STEM
What is difference between theory and practical? Practical should lead to theory and then better learning and understanding. But many students don't do practicals and some don't see demos. #iteachphysics #Science
#Physics Teaching how the National Grid works https://youtu.be/P0j5VeRtGKo using a step up and a step down transformer or not and watching it fail. My pylons I am told make the difference. #iteachphysics #Science #STEM
Turning all that sugar into alcohol and Carbon dioxide. One of the fun practicals learning about microbes and fermentation.
#Physics Learning about electricity is learning what does work and what doesn't. Here practical work, seems far better than doing the theory. The students learn more and faster, here using Locktronics #iteachphysics #Science #STEM @MatrixTSL
Really useful these boxes for storing all the experiments. They stack well and the different sizes mean that they are more efficient in the storage/space ratio. Makes easy to find as we work on an experiment on demand system. As the students arrive they say I learnt about this today but I didn't understand it, we didn't do an experiment, so we can rapidly get out the experiment and let the student carry out the experiment and lean by doing and by discovery.
Many teachers don't like phones in their classrooms. Some are afraid their lesson could be recorded. I like my students to use their mobile phones in the lab. They record all my experiments. The good and the bad. My students Record the experiments, they take photos of the set ups. They enjoy taking Slo-mo of fast and not so fast events and using the phone as a microscope. Amazingly they usually organise themselves that one student does the recording and passes the files around. They act very responsibly and I have never had any problems. On the contrary the opposite is true. #STEM #Science #iteachphysics
I need a much better water clock to do this experiment Rule of odds - Todays job. A cart is rolled down the track. As it passes a bell it rings the bell. We try and make the time between each bell ring the same. As the cart is accelerating, the gap between each bell gets larger. in the ratio 1:3:5:7 etc Once this is set up then I use water coming out from a tap to fill up different measuring cylinders. The amount of water is in the ratio 1:4:9:16:25
Flame Tests are one of my favourite topics. Explaining the colours of fireworks to year 8 in an online lesson.
Its been a busy week of covering DNA replication and Protein synthesis, my models have been duplicated, copied and translated almost as many times as a real cell this week. @chatbiology #Science #STEM
Demonstrating the Doppler effect with the @pascoscientific Doppler Rocket: As the rocket moves away, students can hear the pitch drop (red s...
