Having created a bacterial lawn, adding antibiotic discs. Which antibiotic disc will kill the most bacteria, and what would happen if none of them worked like with MRSA?
1:1 Private Teaching in a dedicated classroom
Monday, 6 November 2023
Sunday, 5 November 2023
HTML Code Creation
Dusting off an old copy of Dreamweaver on an old machine and creating webpages in Notepad++ to show students some of the <HTML> tags and let them create webpages the way I used to teach this 30 years ago!
Saturday, 4 November 2023
Simple Harmonic Motion Design an experiment
Given just a small amount of equipment, a few masses, blue-tack, a ruler, A G-clamp and a phone ( users own) design an experiment to work out the relationship between the length of the ruler and the mass and the rate of oscillation and dampening.
Friday, 3 November 2023
Making Ammonium Sulfate
Creating our own fertilizer from Ammonium Hydroxide and Sulfuric Acid by titration and using Blue Litmus to work out the endpoint, then crystalising the solution to make our fertilizer to test on some plants.
Thursday, 2 November 2023
Quick Electrics
"I have a test on electrics tomorrow and I can't remember a thing, can we go over all of A-level electrics in 1 hour." With some @MatrixTSL locktonics and @pascoscientific, we did it all.
Wednesday, 1 November 2023
Integration Tricks
Integration Tricks. If the top number in a fraction is the differential of the denominator then the quick trick of writing down ln|f(x)|+c makes the integration so much faster than using substitution or parts.
Tuesday, 31 October 2023
Hydrometer
I was surprised how few students had met a hydrometer before. A simple experiment making different strength sugar solutions and measuring their strength using the hydrometer.
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Doppler Rocket
Demonstrating the Doppler effect with the @pascoscientific Doppler Rocket: As the rocket moves away, students can hear the pitch drop (red s...
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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... -
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 ... -
#Physics Taking wind speed readings using the PASCO scientific wireless weather station. Grabbing some monthly data on the weather in t...