Spiders

GCSE Biology Tuition. It's spider season with lots of cobwebs and many Orb Web spiders like this one, but it's not the only type, and there are many different ways to get their food. We stop to look at their various ways to fill the ecosystem.

Building a Computer

 GCSE Computing Tutoring: Probably the best way to understand a computer's components is to build one from scratch. The students are given a case, motherboard, CPU, RAM, hard disk, power supply, graphics card, and monitor, and then an OS is installed, and it works.

Ionic Bonding

 GCSE Chemistry Tuition: Using the cardboard models to gain a better insight into the donation and receiving of electrons creates bonds. Atoms like Magnesium have two sticky-out bits representing the two electrons that can be donated, and negative ions have in bits to accept these donated electrons to give complete shells.

Moments

A-level Physics Tuition: Students investigate moments using the @pascoscientific Aluminium Metre Ruler on a pivot, moving the weights and changing the weights to get the system to balance. Learning how to balance this is essential for Physics and A-level Maths—theory and practice.

Ratio

 GCSE Foundation Maths: A more fun way to learn ratios is to use sweets. Sweets make the concept easier to see, and using more senses turns an abstract idea into one you can touch and see. This all helps the understanding. At the end of the lesson, you can eat the sweets and do ratios.

Inclined Plane

 A-Level Physics: We are working with the inclined plane, investigating the effect of angle on the force and then changing the surface to see how the frictional force affects the results.

Microtome

 GCSE Biology Using a Microtome. A section of a lead is inserted into a vertical slit in a chunk of carrot. A slice is made with a cut-throat razor, then the carrot is wound up a few turns on the microtome, and a new slice is taken to get very thin sections of a leaf to look at.