Using the @pascoscientific wireless pressure sensor to understand the pressure-temperature law. As the temperature increases the pressure increases if the volume remains constant.
Thursday 7 September 2023
Wednesday 6 September 2023
Solving Quadratics
A-level Maths: Many students need to remember that all the papers are calculator papers, and they can use the calculators to solve the quadratic and use the graphing functions to help them see the shapes of graphs.
Tuesday 5 September 2023
Monday 4 September 2023
Which natural antiseptic works the best
A good fun practical all made with natural ingredients to investigate which is the most effective antiseptic plant extract to kill bacteria. As well as some of the normal heroes students tried out some of their own ideas
Network Topology
Learning all about network topology is not about looking at a diagram, it is about building and using a network and wiring from scratch and learning about traceroute.
Saturday 2 September 2023
biology field trip writeup
Trying to help a student with a biology field trip write-up. It's difficult when they don't know the trip's aim; they only have half of the data, and the other groups did the recordings differently, and they didn't take any photos or GPS tag anything.
Friday 1 September 2023
Universal indicator
An excellent year 7 practical introducing indicators as chemicals that change colour according to the pH. Except this was for year 11 students who didn't know about Universal indicator because they hadn't done any experiments until the required practicals in year 10.
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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...
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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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Getting a classic set of results for the titration of NaOH and HCl is not that difficult but it is nice when we can get students to this ...
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Mechanics: the grand meeting of Maths & Physics! Using strobe light & a ball drop for gravity-acceleration calculations and SUVAT fo...