Saturday, 17 August 2024

Gates


 Computing in the Holidays: Making a computer from scratch - learning how AND, NOT, OR and XOR gates work. Creating the circuits to make the students own truth tables is a far more effective way of learning and understanding them.

Friday, 16 August 2024

Making Salts


 GCSE Chemistry in the Holidays. Core experiments are in the exams so practicing them, understanding what is going on and trying out different ones other than making copper sulfate is essential to improving grades.

Thursday, 15 August 2024

Smartcart with Fan


 Physics in the Holidays. There is time to investigate how the angle of the fan on this @pascoscientific smartcart affects its forward direction. By placing a mast and sail on a smartcart, we can see how the wind's direction and the sail's angle allow the cart to move towards the wind.

Wednesday, 14 August 2024

Biased Dice


 Maths in the Holidays—Many questions in exams and elsewhere feature biased dice, but the students have no idea what these are, so getting a set of biased dice and then letting the students play with them to work out each dice's probability of throwing a particular number is fun.


Tuesday, 13 August 2024

Applications of electromagnetic induction


 21st Cent Physics in the Holidays. Going through some revision of transformers and the rules of induction then applying their use in the national grid.


Monday, 12 August 2024

Extracting DNA


 A-level Biology in the Holidays. Extracting DNA from different fruits, such as in the picture of strawberries. Once extracted, the DNA can be used for molecular analyses, including PCRelectrophoresis, sequencing, fingerprinting and cloning.

Friday, 9 August 2024

Molecular Weight Determination


 A-Level Chemistry in the Holidays. We are getting ahead of the A-Level syllabus by starting early. We are determining the Molecular Weight of a volatile liquid by placing a known volume into a heated syringe at 100C.

Complex Cubic Root

Having some fun with math—solving a cubic equation with one real root and a pair of complex conjugate roots. Exploring the fascinating inter...