You must have heard something in the news about the Rosetta probe and its chase of Comet 67P. News items like this one offer tremendous opportunities to develop a number of skills, but in this post I want to focus…
Tag: Physics
Bolt vs Blake in numbers
I spotted the infographic below on the Telegraph website at the end of the 2012 Games and I thought it was a terrific resource to explore a develop of numeracy skills in an engaging way. You can infer information and trends…
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Too quick to see?
This is a lovely demonstration that Keith Gibbs did last night in Chipping Campden school. You cannot see the elastic band hitting the paper at normal speed, but when I rendered the video digitally at 1000 fps using the SLOPRO…
Posted in iPad Integration Tagged with: Apps, Chipping Campden, CollaboratEd, CollaboratEd.org.uk, CPD, iPad, iPhone, Physics, Science, SLOPRO
Comparing the old and new Science Curriculum in England
With the “gap” year off the curriculum to give schools time to review their existing provision and adapt their curriculum with the now published Curriculum 2014 that will become statutory from September 2014 I thought Heads of Science would find…
Posted in CPD, Uncategorized Tagged with: ASE, Biology, Chemistry, CollaboratEd, CPD, Curriculum, KS3, New, Old, Physics, Range, Repeatability, Science, Subjects, Working Scientifically
Impact Calculator – A great simulator
I was at TeachMeet Cardiff last night and among other great presentations Paul Roche showed a great simulator he developed with his team called Impact Calculator. What does it do? Well, as the name suggests Impact Calculator works out various parameter from the…
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Tellagami and the Writing across the curriculum strand in the LNF
I’ve recently come across a really interesting app for developing literacy across the curriculum called Tellagami and I think it would be perfect to develop writing across the curriculum in the Literacy Framework in Wales and in particular the Writing…
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Efficiency of a ball with Vernier Video Physics app!
Today we run some training at King Edward VI School in Southampton and among the activities our delegates were asked to run they had to measure the efficiency of a ball using the excellent app Vernier Video Physics. Check the…
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iMotion HD – Lapse Photography and Crystal Formation
In this short post we want to show you what you can do with a pretty nice free app for iOS devices. iMotion HD lets you take time lapsed photos of anything you want and you can decide the interval…
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Science Apps – Educator’s Choice!
Wallwisher was one of my favourite collaborative tools until it began to get really buggy and break down all the time. But I recently discovered that it had a phoenix like rebirth as Padlet! And what a rebirth! The tool…
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