Conductivity Sensor

 A-Level Chemistry Tuition: The students investigated some of the properties of salts using the @pascoscientific conductivity sensor to see how concentration and the different metal salts affected conductivity and how the strength of an acid or alkali affected conductivity.

Complex numbers

 A-Level Further Maths: Introducing complex numbers and exploring their powers. Fascinating to see the patterns emerge! #FurtherMaths #ComplexNumbers #MathsMagic

SHM

 A-Level Physics Tuition: The Students are investigating Simple Harmonic Motion, investigating how the length of the ruler and the mass on the ruler affect the period and the decay rate in this example of damped harmonic oscillation.

3D Protein Viewer

 A-Level Biology Tuition: Tools I only dreamed of made possible with AlphaFold. This AI system developed by Google DeepMind predicts a protein’s 3D structure from its amino acid sequence and the students can use it.

Bonding

 A-Level Psychology Tuition: Relationships. Investigating the evidence that individuals who form secure infant attachments go on to enjoy long-lasting and loving adult relationships. Failure to do this seems to lead to broken relationships later in life.

And gate

 A-Level Computing Tuition: Creating our own  AND gate to understand and see how it worked using a BBC Microbit to control and power the chip.

Burning Magnesium Ribbon

 Year 9 Chemistry Tuition. Burning magnesium ribbons in the air is one of my favourite experiments. This is the most talked about experiment in school science because the students can do it themselves.

Pressure in a balloon

 GCSE Physics Tuition: Is the air pressure higher in an inflated balloon than outside air pressure. I had the whole class betting against me and they were wrong. The air pressure was the same - then we had to work out why. Using the @pascoscientific pressure sensor.

Polar Coordinates

In A-Level Further Maths Tuition, we played around with polar coordinates and used the Casio CG50 calculator to graph some of the equations we studied. Experimenting with different values, the students could see the effect on the shape of the graph.

 

Pressure

 GCSE Physics Tuition: Investigating Forces and Pressure. Looking at the force and pressure of a stiletto heel. We looked at why I put some blutack on the table to protect it and what happened to the wood when I didn't. A good excuse for some of the ladies to show off their shoes.

Transpiration

 GCSE Biology Tuition: Having a go at investigating transpiration using a photometer. The hard part of this set-up is ensuring there are no air bubbles in the experimental setup except for the one in the capillary tubing. We then could alter the climate conditions and compare the rates of transpiration

Old style printing technology

 A-Level Computing Tuition: Dot Matrix Printer Paper and the Dot Matrix Printer were quite a shock to some students who had never encountered these before. They wondered how letters were ever produced on the daisy wheel printer. It was fun to see it in action.

Determination the MW of a volatile liquid

 A-Level Chemistry: Getting out the steam kettle to heat up a gas syringe to 373K then inject a known mass of a volatile liquid into the syringe and measure its volume  at 373K then use PV=nRT to calculate the number of moles for that mass and from that the MW

conservation of momentum for an explosion #science #momentum #physics

Press a button on a Pasco smart cart and they will explode apart

Synth Setup

 Setting up my synth to do some background music. I can use both a hardware and a software setup; sometimes, I use the software to make the hardware sound different. Still looking for that signature sound. One day, I might stumble across it.

Rates of Reaction

GCSE Chemistry Tuition: When covering revision for a test, nothing can beat the @pascoscientific colourimeter to create a concentration reaction curve this fast. In just 20 minutes, we had done 5 different concentrations of thiosulfate vs acid and got these results.

 

Foundation Maths

 GCSE Foundation Math Tuition: We are learning probability concepts - probably not for the first time. We are linking the real world with the world of Math - making some concepts easier to retain.

Momentum

 GCSE Physics - Learning all about momentum mass x velocity and how the momentum before a collision is the same as the momentum after the collision.

Terminal Velocity in Glycerol

GCSE Physics Tuition: We are looking at Terminal velocity using glycerol as a medium. Using the @pascoscientific rotary motion sensor and capstone, we could easily see how the weight accelerated and then slowed to a terminal velocity. The cord has no measurable effect.

 

Fluid Mosaic Model

 A-Level Biology Tuition: The Fluid Mosaic Model. Starting with washing up bubbles to complex structures held in a double membrane with unique proteins that fit inside and can allow certain molecules to pass through under control.

Sampling Methods

 A-Level Sociology Tuition: Choosing the Sampling Frame - getting a truly representative sample is essential if the data captured is to be believed. Trying experiments on representative and non-representative populations and observing the results.

Barcode Scanning

 GCSE Computing Tuition: We are learning how to read barcodes and about error correction when using a USB Barcode scanner and then putting this into a Python program. Learning real-world skills and finding links between Math and Computing.

SOLVATION

 A-Level Chemistry Tuition: Investigating how ionic substances dissolve in a polar liquid like water and how the ions can then conduct electricity. Introducing the students to programmes like Chemsketch and Chemix.

Light object vs heavy target

What happens when we have an Elastic collision with a Light object vs heavy target

Pasco electrical simulation

 GCSE and A-Level Physics Tuition: Using the @pascoscientific Capstone electrical Circuit simulator to design, draw, and emulate different circuits using EU symbols. The resistances of the components can be changed, and when an Ammeter is added, the expected readings are displayed.

Momentum Carts of unequal masses

 Using @pascoscientific smart carts to demonstrate elastic collisions with carts of unequal masses - the second cart has twice the mass of the first. What will happen might surprise you

Integral Maths

A-Level Math and Further Math Tuition: We use Integral maths to help struggling students with Math. It provides videos and workbooks to remind the students of their classwork and some more exact-level problems to solve.

Wires and components

GCSE Physics Tuition: The students are moving away from circuit diagrams to building circuits with wires and components. This is completely different from the circuit diagram, and although harder to create, it is important to learn the difference between theory and practice.

 

Bacteria

 GCSE Biology Tuition: We want to teach the students about bacteria, but they have never seen them. They look at a cheek cell for the first time and are amazed at what a cell is, but look close, and some of those dots are bacteria—now they get a better idea of scale and of what life is.

Product Life Cycle

 A-Level Business Studies Tuition: Understanding how products evolve from introduction to decline is key for effective marketing strategies. Let’s explore real-world examples and foster critical thinking! #BusinessStudies #ProductLifeCycle #TeachingTomorrow'sLeaders

Network Testing

 A-Level Computing Tuition: The students are learning how to fault-find a network. It should be easy: plug in and go, but the fun comes when firewalls are added, the networks are subnetted, and the students have to communicate between different networks.

Yield

 GCSE Chemistry Tuition: Chemistry involves quite a bit of calculation but only a few formulae, and most are basic Math, yet students find this one of the hardest parts of Chemistry. Many ask me why they are doing Math in Science - My answer this is why to learn Math

Elastic Collisions

In this video, we examine elastic collisions using the PASCO scientific smartcarts and the Capstone software to graph what happens when two carts collide.

Code-Node

 GCSE Physics Tuition: Programming the @pascoscientific code node to become the students' own smartcard so that the students understand the tools they are using rather than just grabbing and using something without understanding what it is, what it does, and, of course, how it works.

Momentum Inelastic Collisions

The first in a Series if Shorts on Momentum

Memory Game

 A-Level Psychology Tuition: Learning how to play the memory Game - the Multistore Model - Practical work on how information can be moved from one to another. Doing the experiments helps the students discover and remember using the games to learn.

A-Level Maths - exploring the large dataset

 A-Level Maths Tuition - exploring the large dataset. So many students do not have a constructive way of looking at and examining the data. They don't understand what to do with this and many teachers abandon their students to do this. We discover what you can do with Stats in Excel.

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A-Level Business Studies Tuition: Branding establishes a unique identity for a company or organization. It includes creating and implementing a distinct set of characteristics that allow consumers to connect the brand with its products or services.

Momentum.

 GCSE Physics Tuition: We are investigating the effects of Momentum. Using the @pascoscientific smartcarts, we could watch the velocity change as one cart hits two instantaneously, get all the data on Capstone, and compare elastic and inelastic collisions.