Friday 31 March 2023

Orbit Tellurium


Visited Cochranes of Oxford @CochranesOxford at #Bett2023Looked at a superb Orbit Tellurium, so had to order one!

Thursday 30 March 2023

Moments


Moments: A difficult concept to grasp but very easy to demonstrate and play with using the @pascoscientific metre stick and the mass hangers. Teaching this was a breeze.

Wednesday 29 March 2023

Youngs Double Slit Experiment

We looked at Young's Double Slit Experiment. None of the students knew about it, so we made predictions about what would be seen and then had to come up with explanations of what happened. We got some interesting ideas not necessarily based on Physics.


 

Tuesday 28 March 2023

Protractor Advantage


 A 360-degree protractor allows for greater flexibility and accuracy in measuring and drawing angles, as it covers the full range of angles from 0 to 360 degrees. A 180-degree protractor is limited to measuring only half of this range, which can be a disadvantage when working with more complex angles. #MathTools #Geometry #Trigonometry

Monday 27 March 2023

Infected cells game

Playing the infected cells simulation where cells with a counter are infected and those without aren't. As vaccines take effect, infection numbers plummet. Try running the simulation in different ways to see varying effects! #infectedcells #simulation #vaccines




 

Sunday 26 March 2023

Creating working traffic lights

 Creating a traffic light program using Python on a Pi-Top 4 computer, LEDs, and a switch to trigger the sequence. #ALevelComputing #PythonProgramming #RaspberryPi #TrafficLights



Saturday 25 March 2023

Sodium


Some things are much easier to revise and learn in chemistry than others. One of the easiest is to know the properties of Sodium. Watching this experiment live, cutting the Sodium with a knife seeing the colour change as the metal reacts with air, and then reacting with water in class is often a thing the students never forget.

A level Math

  Students working out just what formulae are and are not in the exam sheet. Then, the panic can begin to memorise the formulae that are not...