Tuesday, 13 September 2022
Metallic Structure Model
A Petri dish, some water and washing up liquid, a straw and a pipette tip and with a gentle blow we have a model of a metal.
Monday, 12 September 2022
Calcium Oxide reacting with water
Adding water to the Calcium Oxide to make slaked lime and a lot of heat. The lump in the middle is the bit that didn't react that upset the figures.
Limestone experiments
Heating Limestone intensely to make Calcium Oxide, thermal decomposition. Weighing before and after showed a slight decrease in mass. Not as much as the students predicted until they did the next experiment
Sunday, 11 September 2022
Fuel cells
Setting up and running a fuel cell to make hydrogen and oxygen and then reversing the fuel cell to make electricity. We made the electricity either by wind or solar power to split the water
Saturday, 10 September 2022
A level Maths
Amid the Prime Minister changing and a beloved Monarch dying and a new King Proclaimed, A level Maths continues unchanged
Friday, 9 September 2022
Installing and using VNC
A challenge for the students. To obtain a screen capture from a Linux Machine on a Mac or PC. They decided on VNC but had to download and install all the software to get to to successfully work on the end.
Thursday, 8 September 2022
Reducing Copper oxide
@ChemixLab diagrams make it quick and easy to create chemistry diagrams to illustrate how to set up equipment for students, then they can piece together the things necessary to do the experiment
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