1:1 Private Teaching in a dedicated classroom
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
#Physics is all about learning about electrostatics. Learning about like charges repel and unlike charges attract is such a keystone fundamental idea. #iteachphysics #Science #STEM
Its #EvolutionDay 162 years after the publication of The Origin of Species - A hard book to read. I like to show my students the fossils still in the rocks. #Science #STEM
Its that time of year to cut up the red cabbage and make red cabbage indicator. Fun but smelly.
Blend a leaf of red cabbage with 100 ml distilled water. Filter (cheese cloth recommended). The resulting solution displays pretty much a full range of colours from pH 1 to14. Some people recommend boiling the cabbage but it is not necessary
#Science #STEM
Learning how to use a pipette and get the meniscus at the correct level. This certainly takes some practice. #iteachchemistry #Science #STEM
Determining the Molecular weight of a volatile substance using the steam generator. Problem here is making the students wait until it is hot enough. A known amount of a volatile liquid is injected into the gas syringe at 100C. The volatile liquid evaporates and turns to gas and the volume is measured. #iteachchemistry #Science #STEM
#Physics Much of the usual fun with conductors and insulators. Both are at the same temp but the metal feels colder. Interesting answers of why. #iteachphysics #Science #STEM
A second leader board, which runs
alongside the Season Championship, has been created to monitor the performance
of the teams in the Impact League, with each team's score at each SailGP event
being added to the overall Impact League leader board.At the end of the season
it is proposed that there will be two podiums, with the winner of the Impact
League crowned alongside the Season Champion and earning funding for its
purpose partner, who supports and advises them throughout the season and is
visible on the team’s livery. SailGP's Impact League has been set some
sustainability criteria - social and environmental - to operate against with
each team awarded points based on its fulfilment of these criteria. The
criteria range from pioneering new technologies focusing on clean energy
solutions and removing all single-use plastics, to diversity and inclusion and
using the team's voice for good. Each team will be externally audited and an
overall leader board created after each event. Philip and Paul look at this and
look at whether this could be inserted into other sports to improve their
sustainability and perhaps including all the spectators to earn extra points
for their team. We have seen Formula One with formula-E coming along - but this
would be so much better if all the factories also became eco-friendly. #podcast #climatechange #climatecrisis #climateemergency
#raceforthefuture #sports #sustainability #cleanenergy
Looking at Force x Distance Problems with Year 12 #Physics. The @pascoscientific Meter Stick Torque Set is extreme sensitive. We were using 1g masses to balance 100g but I may need some .5 or .25g masses #iteachphysics #science @chatphysics
Teaching looking at crude oil and fractional distillation. I wonder whether this experiment will soon become a thing of the past and be the sort of thing you tell your grandchildren you did. #environment
Whilst teaching electrolysis I found out the students knew nothing about what a battery was so we needed to make one. Using Copper and Zinc electrodes connected to a simple LCD clock to shown that it worked. The students found out it was nothing to do with the potato but the choice of metals and some metals made better batteries ( higher voltages) than others. #iteachphysics #Science #STEM
Looking at the changes in pressure when a conical flask of fizzy water is left to stand using a @pascoscientific pressure sensor to record the results. Would it say the same, rise or possibly fall? Year 12 trying to find out. #iteachphysics #Science #STEM
#Physics Taking wind speed readings using the PASCO scientific wireless weather station. Grabbing some monthly data on the weather in the UK. Relating to streamlining and speeds of cars and lorries. Looking at some wind modelling around built up areas and exposed areas. Surprising that even in low winds in some built up areas because of the layout of the buildings there can be distorted wind effects #iteachphysics #Science #STEM
Teaching about Rutherford Scattering online #Physics Needed a Jib as well for this to show the alpha particles being deflected by the Gold Nuclei. #iteachphysics #Science #STEM
#Chemistry Doing Titrations the easy way showing the temp and PH curves using @pascoscientific drop counter and Capstone. Students can see the reaction going on rather than finding an arbitrary end point. Good discussion. #Science #STEM
New video on comparing vertical and horizontal wind turbines
#Physics Setting up the calorimeter ready to work out the energy in foods. Sir, "Why are we doing chemistry and Biology in Physics?" #iteachphysics #Science #STEM
Looking at electrons in shells with year 8. Watching the light dawn on faces as Lithium and Fluorine combine by donating and receiving elections. Magic #teachchemistry #Science #STEM @ChatChemistry
#Physics Centre of Mass. The students asked why I had a hanging basket indoors. Now they know. The used phones as inclinometers and looked at the stability of masses at different heights. #iteachphysics #Science #STEM
Stereochemistry is very difficult to visualise, even sometimes when playing with models. Even looking at this, some students couldn't...
