19 August 2024
Biodiversity
Biology in the Holidays. Looking at Park management, we have moved from freshly mown fields with little or no insects to vast areas left to wildflowers in an effort to maintain the insect population—but is it too little, too late?
18 August 2024
Old Maths Papers
I had not realised that back in 1983, for example, different Maths Syllabi shared the same papers—this is for the London Board—i.e., Pure Maths 3 was the same as Further Maths Syllabus B, and most A-level Maths students these days would struggle to pass this.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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