Happy New Year
Sorry about the lack of fireworks but we only had a sparkler this year. As promised I've been busy preparing for the new term making activities so my students can do the option of their choice. Thankfully...
Standard christmas tree lights
I've been writing some ATL activities for the Astro option and realised that christmas tree lights are standard candles. Happy Christmas...
The Doors
I’m not an expert on doors but I do go through a lot of them, actually I go through a few a lot but not so many different ones. Like roundabouts and traffic lights there aren’t so many of them on the...
Soldering on
Last lesson I got out the oscilloscope and today the students got to do some soldering. I got breadboards too but soldering was most popular. Thanks go to Danny Doucette (of OCC fame) for the printed...
What's so interesting?
What's 20 years old and smells like a hospital? Caused quite a lot of excitement when taken out of the cupboard for the first time in many years. It's an oscilloscope being used here to display the output...
How to offer all the options
What do you do if your students want to do different options? The old syllabus, with its 2 options at least meant most students could do one of their favourite options. Last year I decided all my students...
The day of the advisor
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Désirée's lefthand righthand
Désirée has worked out a way to remove the confusion associated with Flemings left and right hand rules. Simply bend the first finger back 90° and voila (Désirée speaks French as you can tell by all those...
Eloreal
Today one of my HL classes was doing the required experiment about measuring EMF and internal resistance of a battery. Having mastered the skill of using the multimeter Sven Herman decided to measure...
New and improved
Along with the new student login there is a whole new students pages admin interface. You still click your name then students access but then you click the group and edit content. This opens the student...