Home activities
The activities in this website weren't written with distance learning in mind however, with their heavy use of simulations and animations they might as well have been. Emma and I will be going through all of the pages checking out their suitability for students working at home, adding ways to adapt experiments or, if required, doing the experiments ourself and supplying the data (hopefully won't have to do much of that).
I have already worked through mechanics and didn't find anything that couldn't be done at home. Here are some examples:
- Using a ruler to measure the "diameter" of various sized potatoes instead of using a vernier caliper to measure balls of plasticine as a way to get across the idea of uncertainties.
- Using coins as masses (google their mass). Some even have holes in them.
- Use audacity to measure time for a ball to drop. Tap your computer on release and the ball makes its own sound when it hits the ground.
- Video analysis for everything.
- Pencils instead of pulleys.