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.
 

Doppler Rocket

Demonstrating the Doppler effect with the @pascoscientific Doppler Rocket: As the rocket moves away, students can hear the pitch drop (red s...