How a hard disk works

 Taking a hard disk to bits so that the students could see how a hard disk works.

Displacement reactions

Using displacement reactions, comparing the reactivities of three different metals with their sulfates—Copper, Iron, and Zinc—to find out which is the most reactive and which is the least.

Gay Lussac's Law

 Constant volume: Increasing the Temperature increases the pressure—Gay Lussac's Law. It is so much easier and more accurate to use a @pascoscientific wireless pressure sensor than a Bordon Gauge.

Cards and Probability

Many questions in Maths Papers look at the probability of selecting a card but many students don't play cards except perhaps on a computer games and don't know the names, values or suits.

 

The Laplace rail demonstration

The Laplace rail demonstration is a piece of scientific equipment used to demonstrate the force exerted on a current-carrying conductor in a magnetic field, illustrating the motor effect and fundamental electromagnetic principles. 

Spirogyra

 Life is beginning in the pond and it is a good time to look at spirogyra and get the students to try and record what they actually see rather than what they think they see.

Food Rewards

 A-Level Psychology: We are what we eat. Does what our mother ate when pregnant affect what we like to eat and does letting kids have food rewards help them in the long term?