Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Maths Equipment
Tuesday, 19 March 2024
Magneticforces in a wire
Measuring the magnetic field forces in a wire using an electronic balance with different voltages and recording the orientation of the field according to the electronic flow.
Monday, 18 March 2024
Liver as a catalyst
Comparing Catalase in the Liver as a catalyst with Potassium Iodide to look at the different rates and how effective enzymes are. We managed to cook the liver pieces with the violence of the reaction.
Saturday, 16 March 2024
Raspberry Pi Server
Resources are always a problem in teaching, and letting students build and maintain their own servers is only possible using Raspberry Pi computers running Linux. The students learn so much from building and running their own computer systems.
Friday, 15 March 2024
Exothermic Reaction
Adding Magnesium turnings to copper sulfate gave a nice temperature rise recorded on @pascoscientific Capstone. Different groups doing different experiments meant that we could easily share the data.
Thursday, 14 March 2024
Magnetic field
Measuring the changes in magnetic field with distance, using @pascoscientific magnetic field sensor and the smartcard to provide the position information.
Wednesday, 13 March 2024
Lightbox and Graphs
Comparing two graphs can be difficult. If they are on a computer, then it's simple, but paper graphs need a lightbox so that one can be seen through the other.
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Doppler Rocket
Demonstrating the Doppler effect with the @pascoscientific Doppler Rocket: As the rocket moves away, students can hear the pitch drop (red s...
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Negative feedback is a difficult concept to try and get over so I tried using a balance board and the @pascoscientific smart cart strapped...
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We went to the Bett Show a few weeks ago and there we saw a model of a Liver. It had been knitted so we thought we would have a go. After ...
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#Physics Taking wind speed readings using the PASCO scientific wireless weather station. Grabbing some monthly data on the weather in t...