Nobel Prizes 2023 - and lessons for the IB
2023 was a good year for physicists winning or sharing a Nobel Prize. Besides the three physics prize winners, one of the chemistry prize winners and the peace prize winner were people with a physics...
Group 4 - evaluation
As discussed in It's the fi-nal Group 4! and Aquaculture and kelp project - update, this year UWC Red Cross Nordic enlisted the help of local R&D organisation Akvahub to provide suggestions of real-world...
Is an equation necessary?
Recently I got asked the question: "Do students need to derive an equation in the new IA?". I find typing difficult so I made a video. I thought I might as well share it....
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Aquaculture and kelp project - update
Armed with a briefing document and six challenges provided by our local partner organisation, Akvahub, I launched this year's Group 4 Project in a one-hour after-school session. The content from my slides...
It's the fi-nal Group 4!
This week UWC Red Cross Nordic has its last Group 4 Project - with our Class of 2024. Our Class of 2025 will instead experience the (largely similar!) Collaborative Science Project. With Chris taking...
See you in Dublin?
As a former Derry Girl, I'm delighted to be heading back to Ireland (after a summer of hillwalking) for IB Global Conference. This year, the Conference takes place from Thursday 5th to Sunday 8th October...
More rainbow questions
In the previous blog post I showed why a rainbow is semicircular using a GeoGebra simulation. But is it correct? To test the correctness I started to ask myself questions to interrogate the model. If...
Over the rainbow
A couple of days ago I wrote a post about Chat GPT's explanation of rainbows. I mentioned that the reason for the rainbow being an arc was not given. Well how would I explain it? I wouldn't I would show...
Hey Chat GPT can you explain a rainbow
We have all played these games with Chat GPT trying to see if explanations given are correct but I thought I would try to ask for explanations for different people. I chose the rainbow because it's quite...