Julia Lipnitskaya
I'm not following the winter Olympics very closely but know that Norway are not doing as well as (we) expected, something to do with the wax on their skis I believe. One news clip that caught my eye was...
Telescope experiments
The new syllabus contains some "required experiments" that means that your students have to do them and they must be recorded on the good old 4psow. Well I suppose they had to have some reason for holding...
Jason's questions
Jason always asks interesting questions, today he wanted to know if the age of the universe was twice as old as it is now wouldn't the Hubble constant be the same? His reasoning was that if space was...
The wool leaf electroscope
This is a still from a video sent to me by two of my second year students Vann from Cambodia and Julia from Sweden. The nationalities aren't relevant but I thought I'd add a bit of international mindedness...
Keep your hat on
Last week my first year classes got their first tick in the simulations box on their 4psow. I'm not keen on using ready prepared (e.g. phET) simulations to collect data but prefer to simulate a physical...
Live your dreams
I've just added a new section to the website called "New IA starting 2014". Don't worry it doesn't start yet but will be starting with the next group of students you teach. I have decided to create the...
It's a corker
You might have seen this video doing the rounds on facebook. It's a way to get the cork out of a wine bottle without a corkscrew by putting it in your shoe and hitting it against a wall. I haven't tried...
Private investigations
Happy new year and happy new IA. I've been spending part of my holiday preparing for the workshop on the new syllabus that will be taking place in Barcelona in March. There are a lot of people registered...
More green glowing things
If you've been following this blog you might think that I've discovered another way to keep my students amused while they go to the bathroom but actually I haven't. Since I got a SMARTboard about 6 years...
Happy holidays
Last week it snowed which meant I got a chance to dust off my snow board. Needed more than a dusting, as it happens, since it was stored behind my Spitfire (The classic car not the plane). Old cars don't...