We are sorry to inform you that this event is cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. We are hoping to run another TeachMeet in June at Willows High School, so watch this space. Why on our website? We have been organising TeachMeets…
Year: 2016
Consolidating Newton’s 3rd Law
We have been thinking about effective ways to teach and consolidate Newton’s 3rd law of motion and in particular we have focused on an example that often causes a lot of confusion among learners and (sometimes) teachers – an object at…
Posted in Blog, CPD, GCSE Science Tagged with: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Acceleration, Apple, Class, CollaboratEd, CollaboratEd.org.uk, CPD, Discussion, Forces, Interaction Pair, Laws of Motion, learners, learning, Moving, Newton, Physics, Pupils, Science, Stationary, Students, Teacher, Velocity
Half-life of Coke Zero bubbles – Essential new GCSE Science
I took the video below using a Coke Zero bottle, shaking it and opening the lid to produce lots of bubbles. Then, I used the Vernier Video Physics app from my iPad to track the level of the bubbles as…
Posted in Blog, GCSE Science, iPad Integration Tagged with: Apps, Coke, CollaboratEd, CollaboratEd.org.uk, CPD, Decay, Digital Learning, Half-life, iPad, Isotopes, learners, New GCSE, Nuclear, Physics, Process, Radiation, Radioactive, Radioactivity, Random, Science, Students, Teachers, Vernier Video Physics, Zero
New GCSE Physics and pressure in a gas
We have been looking at the new AQA GCSE specifications for next year and we thought the example in the two photos below would support teachers in tackling the “Changing pressure in a gas” topic which is physics only and HT. Note…
Posted in Blog, CPD, GCSE Science Tagged with: Award, CollaboratEd, CollaboratEd.org.uk, CPD, Gas, GCSE, Liquid, New, Physics, Pressure, pV, pV = constant, Resources, Science, Specifications, Teachers, Temperature, Training, Triple, Volume
New mathematical requirements in GCSE Science
We have been looking at the mathematical requirements for the new GCSE Science exams from September 2016, so we thought we’d share the mind map below we created to make sense of these requirements. The magnet, microscope and conical flask icons…
#ASEchat 30/05/16 – How are schools preparing for the new GCSE Science?
We were once again very glad to host #asechat tonight and the topic, as always, was very relevant for practicing teachers of science. As expected, the suggestions given by the participants were very useful and some even shared resources for…
Our work in Mexico – La Ciencia en tu Escuela
We were very privileged to be able to work with the British Council Mexico between November 2015 and March 2016 on the evaluation of the online CPD platform for STEM primary and secondary teachers La Ciencia en tu Escuela, developed by…
Posted in Blog, CPD, Web 2.0 Tagged with: British Council, CollaboratEd, CollaboratEd.org.uk, CPD, La Ciencia en tu Escuela, learners, learning, Mathematics, Maths, Mexican Academy of Sciences, Mexico, Mexico City, Primary, Professional Development, Pupils, School, Science, Secondary, STEM, Students, Subjects, Teachers, UKEdChat, UKEdChat.com
Does Academy = better academic results?
So Your School’s Turning into an Academy… As I am sure you all know now, the government has announced plans to turn every school in England into an academy by 2022. However, what does this mean for those with teacher…
Innovation Clubs in Malaysia
In the last six months we were very privileged to work with British Council Malaysia and some great educators at SMK Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Klang school on the development of an Innovation Clubs resource pack for secondary schools in Malaysia.…
Posted in Blog, CPD Tagged with: British Council, Challenges, CollaboratEd, CollaboratEd.org.uk, CPD, Design Thinking, Divergent Thinking, Higher Order Thinking, innovation, Innovation Clubs, Kuala Lumpur, learning, Malaysia, Model, Professional Development, Selangor, Skills, SMK, Teachers, Training, TRIAL
#asechat summary 28/03/16 – What Science Clubs do you run?
We were glad to host #asechat tonight and we have tried to capture the most interesting threads in the Twitter Collection below. The chat was a bit quieter than usual, but that was to be expected on Easter Monday. However,…
Posted in Blog, CPD Tagged with: #asechat, Biology, Chemistry, Citizen, Clubs, CollaboratEd, CollaboratEd.org.uk, CPD, Engaging, engineering, Independent, learners, learning, Physics, Science, Students
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