Look into my eyes

 Using a close up camera to see how the iris works and using the @pasco human demo eye to see how it works in practice by putting in an iris in the eye. It is also useful to use a camera lens to show the camera T-stops in action.

3 Liquids

Three different liquids. All looked like water but they were not what the students expected. I was surprised how many students naturally assumed a clear liquid would be water.

Investigating the Iris

Needing to get up close and personal, looking at how light affects my iris

 

How the eye works

 By changing the amount of water in this @pasco lens used in the demo eye model the students were able to use the same lens to create both concave and convex lenses and gain a better idea how the eye worked.

Using chemix.org

Using Chemix.org to create the practical guidelines for some of the experiments. The students seem to easily follow the diagrams and set them up correctly. 

 

Resonance

 Making a lot of noise and some pretty shapes in the lab #iteachphysics

Sometimes we just need to get the pullies out in Maths.

Maths is largely an abstract subject, but sometimes when studying subjects like Mechanics, then it is necessary to get the pullies out to improve our understanding of the problem and then the quality of the learning increases dramatically.