Experimenting with alcohol
After Geoff's comment on my last blog post I thought I'd try to experiment with alcohol. That doesn't sound so good. What I mean is that I'd try heating alcohol with my hand to see if the difference in...
Dream comes true
My last blog post was about an experiment that didn't work, well it's raining outside so I thought I'd return to the lab and try again this time with a better temperature sensor and a more careful technique....
Hand hot
Yesterday at about 5 am I was lying in bed trying to get back to sleep when I had a great idea for a new practical. I've been trying to think of a lab that connected biology, chemistry and physics. It's...
Balloon that blew my mind
Last week I was running a workshop in the next room to Geoff Neuss who was running a similar one for Chemistry teachers. I was doing a design experiment exercise with particular focus on the learner...
Life fitness
This week I’ve been in Kazakhstan running a workshop for a school that will be applying to implement the IB diploma program. Hotel life can get a bit boring so I’ve been driven to use the gym and have...
Couldn't put it better myself
Yep....
Inclined to believe it
There are many ways to include simulations in your practical programme, one way is to simulate an experiment but this seems to defeat the object of practical work and I don't like to do it. An alternative...
One day lad all this will be yours
Last week I was in Scotland with my family and my daughter wanted to see a castle. I'm not that keen on history but I do like Monty Python, so we decided to visit Doune castle which was the castle used...
Up and running
Even though it's holiday time I live next to the school so like to pop in now and again to see what's going on. Today I visited my classroom to see if the new board had been mounted and was glad to see...
Sixty Symbols
I've just discovered this set of videos entitled sixty symbols from Nottingham University. I've seen their series on the periodic table but hadn't seen the physics series before. They don't contain any...