Teaching out on the pavement using the @pascoscientific Doppler Rocket to demonstrate the Doppler effect as the sound changes as the rocket comes towards you and moves away. Helping us to learn about red shift in a practical way.
Thursday 25 January 2024
Wednesday 24 January 2024
Invariant Matrices
Further Maths - Investigating Linear Transformations. Discovering Invariant Points and Lines. Learning how Matricies can help real-world problems.
Tuesday 23 January 2024
Pascals Vases
Lots of experiments are done every year, but sometimes, looking at different experiments, like Pascal's Vases, provides some interesting ideas, especially to help students think about designing experiments.
Monday 22 January 2024
Compound Microscopes
Learning how to make slides of stained cheek cells and view them on a Compound Microscope and then record the sample by using the students' phones. Not many successes but we had more luck with some prepared slides.
Sunday 21 January 2024
Educational Terms
These are a few of the Abbreviations I use when marking students' work. What ones do you use or have been used on you?
Saturday 20 January 2024
Apple IIe
One of the iconic computers of its time - The Apple IIe. The students could see how large all the chips were and the size and capacity of the 5 1/4 floppy disks. How could you manage these programs with so little memory and no mouse?
Friday 19 January 2024
Making Ligands
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