Mechanics mindflash
This one took me about 5 days!...
Waves mindflash
Here is my latest offering....
Mindflash
I had an idea to make an interactive mindmap where I put the headings of everything a student has to know, when they click the headings it reveals the details. A sort of mindmap - flashcard hybrid. I'll...
24 ready made IAs
During the life of this website (10 years) I have developed a whole load on interesting practicals, some I use regularly others have fallen by the wayside. Some of the less used examples would make great...
This years investigations
It's become a bit of a tradition that I post my students research questions on the blog so here they are. The have 3 weeks to produce a first draft, at that point I will post my reflections, these will...
May 21 assessment process
Chris' school is in Norway; his students will probably take exams. Emma's school is in the UK, where a nationwide non-exam route is in place. How will our IB physicists get assessed this year? Internal...
Modifications in 2022
As if the assessment process for 2021 wasn't enough, we've also learned in the last week that the May and November exams in 2022 will be modified in the same way as in 2021 (except for new subjects and...
Comments (damped harmonic motion)
When someone leaves a comment on a page I always try to answer as quickly as possible, usually within a couple of hours. Sometimes you ask a difficult question that takes a bit more time, This week Yang...
In page written tasks (improved feature).
These have been around for ages but I have never used them for one good reason, it didn't used to be possible to include images which means it was impossible to show graphs or photographs of calculations....
Gp4 project: Solar power
It's pretty cold here at the moment, -18℃. If we were doing our group 4 project today we would choose a wintery theme like snow. It's all very well saying that now but the year we actually planned to...