Tuesday, 2 August 2022
More capillary rise
After a significant amount of searching I managed to find a much better capillary rise apparatus. As usual its more expensive but that is the way of all science equipment.
Monday, 1 August 2022
CBA
CBA I just Can't Be Asked to balance equations - Summer revision classes for year 10 students who seemed to have missed lots of year 10 chemistry.
Sunday, 31 July 2022
The force from a wire
Doing an online experiment to demonstrate the force a wire can make when travelling through a small magnetic field
Saturday, 30 July 2022
Learning to use a pipette
Learning to use science equipment is just as important as learning about science. Something I find that many students lack, as is designing experiments - not just the ones they have to design ,but doing science by enquiry.
Friday, 29 July 2022
Capillary Rise
Syllabi change and some bits of science drop out of syllabi, but the science doesn't change and learning about some of these other things is vital to what the students need to know - like capillary tubes and how they work
Thursday, 28 July 2022
Boosting onto year 13
Some down time in the holiday is an excellent time for getting ahead and with year 13 work and revising some of the old year 12 work keeping the hand in on the old C1 and C2 papers.
Wednesday, 27 July 2022
Rates of Reaction
Studying rates of reaction is possibly one of the easiest and hardest things to study in chemistry. Looking at concentration, particle size and temperature and then at A level measuring the rate and determining what is going on.
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