Category: GCSE Science

How to support your students’ learning remotely

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In this climate of likely staff reduction and self-isolating students and teachers, as well as possible school closures, amidst the COVID-19 outbreak, teachers are asked to prepare resources for online learning for their students. Here are 5 tools and tips

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Using photos of nature to teach science

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Alberto Ghizzi Panizza is easily the best macro photographer in Italy and quite likely the world, having featured in many websites and magazines across the globe, like the National Geographic, as well as winning innumerable photography awards. An example of his great

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Minimal guidance versus guided instruction

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There has been some controversy in educational research between promoters of minimal guidance and constructivist approaches to learning vs a growing group of educationalists who support guided instruction approaches. This blog post compares two studies that are diametrically opposite in

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Consolidating Newton’s 3rd Law

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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

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Half-life of Coke Zero bubbles – Essential new GCSE Science

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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

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New GCSE Physics and pressure in a gas

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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

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