Metacognition
As I put together the new version of my text book I have been thinking of the way we present the course to our students and if it follows the "IB way" of doing it. What is the IB way? Well it is succinctly...
EE's 2023
Success breeds success and I have 10 extended essays to supervise again. The school limits teacher to 5 but I have a special arrangement and can have 10. There were another 2 who wanted to do physics...
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School lever
With a long enough lever you can lift anything. Here I am trying to move millstone from the river by my house. I have moved it 2m in 2 days means it will be in out garden some time next year. The mechanical...
IA 2022
Actually the title should be 2023 since that is when this lot will do their exam, however I always get the IA done early so my first year students have just handed in their 1st draft. I have given feedback...
Best fit curves in GeoGebra
Some of my students and I are having difficulty plotting curves in Loggerpro. There seems to be some bugs. Curve plotting is necessary in the IA when an equation can not be linearised, however it is important...
Daily IA
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Daily IA
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Daily IA
Adrianna is doing her investigation on a hot air balloon made from bin liners. The research question is "what is the relationship between the uward force eperienced by a hot air balloon and its temperature"....
Daily IA
I have two students doing different research on the same thing. Vihaan and Jakob are both dropping masses onto a stretched string. Jakob, a pianist, is investigating the relationship between drop height...