Posts Tagged ‘scichat’
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 ...
Fair tests and One variable at a time
Decoupling “fairness” from “one variable at a time”
Central to the vast majority of KS2-KS5 science investigations is the concept of “fair test”. So ingrained is fairness, that pause and ask ...
Hello, Raspberry Pi – A game changer?
I’m an old school geek/nerd/speccy head (as opposed to Amiga / Atari ST – head), so when the Raspberry Pi opened for orders, I was one of those people who ...
Integrating maths and science teaching #2
Twelve months ago I blogged about my frustrations in teaching maths & science and learners (seemingly) inability to transfer skills from one subject to another.
What I’ve been surprised over is ...
Is TV killing your subject?
What a lovely emotive question and one that I’ve posed like that to stir the reactionary heart strings. In this case though, I’m not bemoaning the TV as the harbinger ...
Main effects analysis
I’ve blogged in the past about my desire to be able to teach learners a more rounded approach to experimental design. Previously, I’ve written about One Variable at a Time in ...
PLNs and peer collaboration
Like most people when I started blogging and tweeting I had three parts of my personality that I wanted to feed the needs of:
The learn from a like minded set ...
Serious Sand Collecting and Geology post-16
A couple of years ago, my daughter brought a sand castle home from school. She had visited the beach the previous week and collected some sand. They had then mixed ...
GCSE results: are they Mean?
Dateline: Wednesday 24th August, 2011 – the nation waits with baited breath for the latest L2 (or if you’re the media, you will insist on calling it GCSE) results to ...
Open(ish) Probeware
I’m not a fan of “data loggers” and I’ve posted before on how to make alternatives from commonly available items.
I’ve been pontificating recently how to spend £1500 that as a ...
Non specialists teaching “your subject”?
I’ve blogged about our KS3 model before – based in part on a Primary model, with the majority of lessons taught by their form tutor, in a single teaching room. ...
An open letter to STEM
In light of the comment below — I’ve added this rider:
This is not a rant, moan, or other comment on the excellent work that STEMnet do — my post is ...
Integrating Maths & Science teaching
Over a month since my last post – ouch!! The ramp up to exams leaves all teachers ragged — student coursework, revision classes and the inevitable scheduling of last minute ...
Sharpen the Saw – teach out of specialism!
I’ve been a teacher for six years and head of Science for just shy of 3. Prior to teaching, I worked in Semiconductor and IT sales.
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I make no secret of ...
Guest post: Spoon fed Btec
This article featured on: http://fiendishlyclever.com/ and in light of the Wolf report, I’m running it as a special “guest” post. The views and opinions are that of the original author.
FiendishlyClever.com
Running a ...
Host an ITT student – ideal CPD
When I became head of Science I wanted to ensure that I “returned the favour” so to speak and hosted as many PGCE students as we could manage. This seemed ...
Simple AM Transmitter
Inspired by various web wanderings a couple of year back, I built a sound modulated laser, for sending audio signals over a long distance.
Recently, I came across a new article ...
Mod a webcam into a USB microscope
The success of turning a web cam into a visualiser to make a device that I use every day, either to project a demo or to record a small video ...
Micrometeorites: contextualising GCSE Chemistry
One of the challenges of being a Science teacher (and any teacher for that matter) is making the curriculum content relevant to our learners, yet maintaining elements of academic rigour and specific specialised ...
