Saturday 28 September 2024
Different SSD's
GCSE Computer Studies Tuition: The students are studying the different types of SSD technology found in their computers and how Hard disk technology has completely changed over the past few years.
Friday 27 September 2024
Atomic Shapes
A-Level Chemistry Tuition: Looking at the shapes of the Atomic orbitals to try and make some sense of the features we see in the periodic table - the evidence for s and p orbitals and how the shapes fit inside each other - where this model falls down.
Thursday 26 September 2024
Creating a calibration Curve
A-level Biology Tuition: My students create a series of serial dilutions of Glucose to work out the concentration of an unknown. They use the @pascoscientific colourimeter to create a calibration curve and Benedict's solution to make a quantitative assay.
Wednesday 25 September 2024
GCSE Higher Maths
GCSE Math Tutoring: I work with GCSE Students to increase their chances of getting higher grades. Each week, they come to me not being able to do something, and they go away being able to do this. Soon, they run out of things they can't do.
Tuesday 24 September 2024
Force and Distance
GCSE Physics Tuition: Students investigate how the force changes with the distance from the fulcrum as we investigate moments, gears, pullies, and levers.
Monday 23 September 2024
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.
Saturday 21 September 2024
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.
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Network Testing
A-Level Computing Tuition: The students are learning how to fault-find a network. It should be easy: plug in and go, but the fun comes whe...
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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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Some online Maths Tuition. Drawing a diagram to show what is happening is even more important. Colour coding helps identify which part we ...