Lollipops
Not exactly a lollipop but it is ice on a stick. I've noticed this phenomenon for many years and often wondered what caused it. On cold mornings , even when there isn't frost on the ground, large crystals...
Chernobyl on Wheels
The Guardian again but this time an article about transporting of nuclear waste. It's said to be like "Chernobyl on wheels" by some observers but Chernobyl was a rather outdated nuclear power station...
Fast Orbits
I was reading the weekly Guardian and noticed an article on the International Space Station that said it orbited the earth 16 times an hour, thought this was a bit fast and it is. The actual rate is...
i dough
last week I visited the local toy shop to buy some play dough and was interested to find a new version called idough, obviously cashing in on the iphone/ipod generation, well it worked on me and I bought...
Wood Chopping
As one of my CAS activities with the students (all teachers are involved with CAS in UWC schools) I cut wood. If no one cut down trees around the college then we would be overrun with them so its environmentally...
Paint the rooftops white
I've always thought that a way to combat global warming would be to paint all the rooftops on the earth white (or silver) this would increase the albedo of the earth and reduce the temperature. I present...
Driving a formula 1 car
Top gear is one of my favourite programmes in fact it's one of the few programmes that I watch apart from "master chef and "coming to dinner". In Norway we don't get the up to date programmes but lots...
Slinky
I was doing a design lab with a slinky today. Students have to come up with a research question related to a slinky spring. always like the students to choose something different so as the lesson progresses...
Neurosky
I like to keep up to date with the use of technology in the classroom but I was just reading an article in the Guardian weekly about the latest developments in the game world and it bought it home to...
Polarisation
Was doing polarisation with my class and unusualy for me I did a couple of real demos rather than simulated ones. First I did a demo passing a laser through some sugar solution placed between crosses...