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 Following along on the @Pascoscientific Essentials of Physics online course, having a look at the online materials, simulations and practical experiments available for US schools. Much of these materials are the same for UK schools, just in a different order.

A-Level Computing Projects

 Computing in the Holidays. I am working on A-level computer projects. One is with an LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) system, which creates and uses a database to control website bookings and payment systems.

Making Electric Motors

​Physics in the Holidays: The students built a Westminster electric motor from scratch and got it spinning. They had a newfound respect for the humble motor and its effectiveness and power.

Building a DNA Molecule

 Biology in the Holidays. The students created Nucleotide bases and Deoxyribose sugars and then assembled them to create part of a DNA molecule. The students found the scale, complexity, and simplicity of this Molecule quite fascinating.

Full Adder

 Computing in the Holidays. Time to create simple logic circuits from AND, OR, NOT and XOR gates. Creating circuits like full adders and half adders gives the students ideas on how computers work and in programming, making our own AI.

Solving Quadratics

 GCSE Maths in the Holidays. Many schools don't seem to teach students how to use calculators effectively, what their functions are, and what they can do. We have time in the holidays to do this using all types of calculators to make life easy.

Drop Counter

 Chemistry in the Holidays. Different ways of doing a titration. Using the @pascoscientific drop counter, the machine drops a measured drop into the solution and records the count so that beautiful acid/alkali neutralisation graphs can be obtained.