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Post 3a and 3b
I am indebited to Danny Nicholson (@dannynic) for this week’s resources. My daytime position is as an Assistant Headteacher in a school in Sheffield with responsibility for managing our MLE and...
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Post 4: From an ASE Teachmeet.
For this week’s contribution I am grateful to James. A couple of weeks ago we had a wonderful SciTeachMeet at Hallam’s Science Learning centre. It was a great evening of shared expertise and ideas,...
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Post 5; Sorry its been a while
The Sellafield web site, that used to provide its resources on disk are now providing them on-line. A wide range of resources under its “Succeeding with Science,” that are suitable for a wide range...
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Post 6; Food webs.
Another great interactive whiteboard resource and one I’ve used a lot. The Gould League Food Web site has four different habitats where students can create a food web. This makes a good plenary...
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Post 7; Tweet tweet tweet Twitter.
This post is to promote Twitter. If you are reading this blog its possible you are already one Twitter and that’s how you found it. However I hope some people will find this blog in different ways....
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Too Many to favourite
In what has been an epic weekend for interesting articles, I find myself with 22 open tabs in Chrome with loads of articles that I have skimmed but need to follow up later. So I have decided to...
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Just one more.
I used the old one a lot for year 8 and 9 space. So its only right that I add the new version. This is Eric Idle’s scientifically up dated Universe song...
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Its been a while.
I have decided that my ideal job would be something where I could just read all day. Having a holiday, where my wife has had to go back to school as her Easter holiday and mine only partly overlaps,...
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Two in a week.
Its amazing what a holiday can do. So here are some more resources;- Sound advice on the traits of being a good teacher from Tom Sherrington who tweets under the name @Headguruteacher. one of the...
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My weekends findings
Hard water revision. This is a good revision summary of hard water, suitable for GCSE chemistry C3 papers. AQA and Edexcel both have this on the specification (not sure about OCR)...
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Not going to lie…I’m rubbish at keeping a blog up to date!
Still its better than nothing. A few links from my recent reading. I am still struggling to introduce SOLO into my routine work. The carousel of teaching our specialisms to Year 10 and 11 means I just...
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The play what I wrote.
A short play that I have put together to use with year 10 students doing B1 AQA. They need to know about Ignaz Semmelweis and how he introduced hand washing to prevent patients dying from the dreaded...
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School Improvement.
Our headteacher, Steve Davies, is a great proponent of the thinking of William Edwards Deming. Given half a chance he will delight in sharing his enthusiasm, for hours. Deming was the American...
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Take Away Homework Menu
I’ve been using this with my GCSE Chemists. This is a good group with many self-motivated students.Using this sort of homework where they have the choice has enabled some of them to produce truly...
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It’s been a while again. Darwin and Lamarck
I’m teaching a year 10 group biology at the moment. I am struggling a little, being a chemistry teacher by training I miss the practicals which are easier to find in C1. In attempt to make evolution...
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Education Endowment Foundation
The EEF seem to loom large in my life at the moment. Within my role as Research Lead in a school in Sheffield we are running and RCT in Science Education and we are funded by the EEF. In addition my...
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