Saturday, 11 January 2025
Building a Network
A-Level Computing: Understanding networking theory is one thing, but building a network from scratch is a whole new challenge! Students configured devices to communicate, added resilience with a load balancer, and set up a firewall for security. #Networking #ComputingEducation
Friday, 10 January 2025
Optically active Glucose
A-Level Chemistry: Viewing a glucose solution through two polarising filters. The light is initially extinguished, but glucose rotates it, allowing some to pass through. This is dextrose; laevose rotates the light in the opposite direction. #Chemistry #OpticalActivity
Thursday, 9 January 2025
Galileo's Bells
Using Galileo's Bells to demonstrate the square relationship of acceleration: With the @pascoscientific smartcart for precise data recording and a very inaccurate water clock for interval timing. A perfect blend of modern tech and historical methods! #Physics #STEM
Wednesday, 8 January 2025
Sum and Products of the roots of Polynomials
Exploring the sum and product of polynomial roots: Teaching students how coefficients reveal the relationships between roots and equations. A key concept bridging algebra and deeper mathematical insight! #MathsEducation #Polynomials
Tuesday, 7 January 2025
Levers and Weighting machines
How much does this weigh? Exploring different tools for measurement: a lever arm balance, a Newton meter, and a set of scales with their weights. Hands-on learning at its best! #Physics #Measurement
Monday, 6 January 2025
Understanding Protein Synthesis
Getting to grips with protein synthesis in A-level Biology, from looking at the DNA structure to transcription to RNA and then translating the RNA sequence to a Protein in a Ribosome and seeing how the protein molecule folds to create an active protein.
Sunday, 5 January 2025
Sociology Dependency Theory
In A-level sociology, we investigate how dependency theory explains development in different parts of the world and how the forces of a global capitalist society operate against and press the poorer countries that have yet to develop.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Business Studies How Ice Cream Vans Master Marketing (and Location Strategy)
Want to understand business strategy? Follow an ice cream van. 🍦 How Ice Cream Vans Master Marketing (and Location Strategy) It’s a warm s...

-
Negative feedback is a difficult concept to try and get over so I tried using a balance board and the @pascoscientific smart cart strapped...
-
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 ...
-
With all the electronic equipment, is there still a place in the Physics lab for a ticker tape timer and analogue data recording, like cutt...