Posts Tagged ‘asechat’
Personalised “flipped” revision
I’m fortunate enough to tutor a few learners in GCSE Science - fortunate as it allows me to spend more than 2 or 3 minutes actually diagnosing learning “blocks” and it gives me the ...
Santa Graphs – seasonal pseudo context
That time of year again and I just can’t watch Elf – no really I can’t.
So I created this bit of pseudo context.
Santa is charting the growth g in numbers ...
Experimentation at KS5 – not just one variable at a time
I’ve blogged in the past about my attempts to challenge the widely held belief that for experiments to be “fair” you must control ALL the variables you can and ONLY ...
Scientific ilLiteracy
Having been off school for the past week I’ve engaged in a fair amount of navel gazing and ponderings of all things related to my role as an educator.
Plus, I’ve been reading ...
Excel graph paper – version 1.1
I hadn’t intended to create a new version so soon, but the feedback from the first release caused some bug fixes, a tidy of the macro code and the inclusion ...
Excel “graph paper” macro (version 1.0)
During a recent whole school numeracy Inset I used Excel to produce some “blank” graph paper, with the Title and X/Y axes already completed. The idea was to get staff ...
Why we moved from project based learning back to conceptual topics
In 2005 we started to consider moving from a conceptual Science curriculum (based on the QCA model) to a project driven contextual curriculum. As school results will testify to – it was ...
BTEC – A conspiracy of silence?
I’ve blogged about BTEC and how I feel about it before (Is BTEC fit for purpose? and Spoon fed BTEC (guest post from http://fiendishlyclever.com/) – and my general feeling towards the spirit ...
Collaborating for a better KS3 SOW (Science)
I love the things that Twitter throws up to inspire and challenge.
Off and on for the past few years I’ve wanted to collaboratively work on a scheme of work and associated ...
Rounding numbers in Excel
One of my many pet “peeves” with ICT in the Science classroom is that the learners “never know” what I want them to, so that I can just use the ...
Self published teachers
Two years ago I (@mrgpg) (along with 100′s of other Tweeters) collaborated with @tomhenzley to crowd source The PGCE Survival Guide - (if you’re interested in how the book was created, Tim maintains ...
Balancing chemical equations using linear systems – OMG moment
I have never come across this before — but in retrospect I should have and wish it had dawned on me previously.
In my continued attempts to draw together Maths and ...
Integrating Science and Maths – weekly team meeting #1
As part of the ongoing push to both align Science and Maths teaching AND to raise the profile of Numeracy, we’ve just set up a weekly meeting between myself (STL ...
Stop reinventing the wheel with @MrsDrSarah
According to my wife and head headteacher (Not the same people) – I’m hard to please.
For my wife – that means I expect my kids to be perfect 100% of ...
Formula Mass Calculator
Having just set my Btec L3 students a huge homework involving calculating the formula masses, percentage composition and standard solution calculations, I was faced with calculating said formula masses for ...
Integrating Science and Maths #5 Surface Area to Volume Ratio
One of the classic heat transfer experiments in schools is a demonstration of penguins huddling together (simulated by test tubes full of hot water) – to demonstrate that heat transfer ...
Integrating Science and Maths #4 – Pinhole Camera
Year 10 Top Set Science discussing how pin hole cameras work. Diagram above projected on the white board and discussion over how / why the image is inverted.
The “triangles” are ...
Integrating Science and Maths #3 – Olympic Data
I’ve blogged in the past about the drive to more seamlessly integrate the terminology of Science and Maths, to develop transferable skills between the the subject and to remove the artificial ...
Re purposing old resources – homework booklets
Like many teachers, I’m a hoarder – resources I made back when I was an NQT I still use – in fact, if I’m honest, some of the more adventurous ...
TeachMeet video – (Research and Data Talks)
One of the Internet activities my daughter (7 years old) likes to do, is to search the Web for photos of friends and family – she is always amazed when ...
