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14/11/2008

Trying to look on the positive side, it's a good time of year to get a look up to the sky reasonably early in the evening. Heavens Above is a nice site where you can plug your location in and find out what's up there. Last time I had a play I managed to see the ISS fly overhead, great stuff.

If you live in Cambridge the Astronomy department have open evenings at 7.15pm on wednesday nights - more details are available here

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New ISIS Telescope

I saw a nice BBC article about ISIS here, well explained with some good 'why bother?' analysis.

Posted at 11:34 by tscommunity | Category: Physics | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)

04/11/2008

ABPI - Resource Library (Lots of free stuff)

It's a while since I have had a look at the ABPI (The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry) education section - there really is a treasure trove.

I just left the search box empty (you must click the T+C box!) and clicked to find several hundred free resources ranging from nice clear antibody and antigen images for slideshows to a interactive animation about adrenaline and that was just the A's

The main schools site is here and the resource library is here, or browse by subject great stuff. -

Posted at 19:37 by tscommunity | Category: Biology | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)

02/11/2008

Acids and Bases - Free teaching pack

Following on from my recent play with PhotoStory as part of the e-learning activities now available as part of the Triple Science I had a rummage around the chemistry resources area of the community and found a nice pack of resources to help with the teaching of the parts of the AQA course on Acids and Bases.

From the Newcastle STEMNET group the pack includes volumetric calculations, examples for students and homework questions. It also includes documents on Enthalpy Changes, Molecular Processes, Comparing reactivity in Groups I and VII, Measuring enthalpy changes in chemical reactions, Acids, bases and salts, and Patterns in the periodic table. Click here to download a zip file with all of them (only works if you are logged in to the community)

Posted at 22:16 by tscommunity | Category: Chemistry | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)

31/10/2008

Jeans for Genes

The fundraising day may have been and gone but there seem to be a whole load of good resourses for teaching genetics on the website.

The third block of materials on the page is the where the Education downloads are. There are some nice personal stories about conditions such as sickle cell anemia and CF that make them seem more real than the textbook content.

Posted at 09:05 by tscommunity | Category: Biology | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)

28/10/2008

Manchester Science Festival - NOW ON

I guess that if you live near or around manchester then you know that the science festival is on, if not then go to their website now and check out what is on offer.

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15/10/2008

E-learning – Easy but potentially powerful stuff

Mobile Phones, free (and easy to use) software and some new ideas.

One of the new e-learning pack from the triple science project looks at how to use the Free Photo Story software from Microsoft to make a movie showing a difficult concept of idea. The example tutorial offers another way of looking at volumetric analysis that can motivate and enthuse pupils whilst teaching them science at the same time.

All the details, information and advantages about this approach are here so I thought that I’d have a go. Not quite brilliant teaching but as a proof of how easy it was to do – see my first attempt here, and I hadn’t used photo story before.

I didn’t add any narration (forgot to set up my microphone) but adding audio was easy and if I had wanted to I could have adjusted the transition time between images. I just wanted to know it was easy, which it was. One mobile phone and 10 minutes start to finish. I guess I can work out how to teach with it later (other ideas are here or post them in the discussion area)

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E-learning Everywhere (and Sheffield)

There are now a whole load of e-learning resources now available across all the triple science subjects and content areas.

Each subject area now has 5 units covering areas such as digital video, collaborative document writing, blogging, mind mapping and using animations as well as many more.

Each unit has step by step instructions that walk you through the particular skill area, using a context from the triple science courses as an example. There are downloadable materials and resources. Put together by teachers and writers teaching these courses, these materials will provide support and ideas relevant for anyone teaching GCSE sciences.

Click here to go have a look at the full range of materials available, play with them and then pop over to the discussion area and share your experiences.

And if you live in travelling distance from Sheffield then pop along to the Science Learning Centre there for a free course there on 1^st December that will cover many of these e-learning topics. Click here for more details.

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11/09/2008

Get up to speed on the new and difficult bits in TS

In some of the TS courses there is some content that may be new to some. LSN and RC-UK have teamed up to produce some helpful quick guides to get you up to speed.

Not an internal plug - these are really good. Main page here but individual links to the download pages for each topic are below.

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19/08/2008

Geometric Optics - Teaching Pack

It's a big file (26MB) but well worth it - this file is a great starting point and will contain much of what you will need, hours of planning saved in a mouse click. All the materials for teaching geometrial optics, plus the lessons and resources in individual files. Hopefully, these are interesting lessons with lots of practical activities supported by many animations and some PowerPoint presentations.

If you are logged in (it's free to register) then you can get the file by clicking HERE or you could go and have a look in the PHYSICS RESOURCES folder and find it there and see what else you can find.

If you dimly remember ray diagrams from your own Physics lessons and need a refresher then these are all there along with lots more and so nice animations in the presentations.

Thanks Bromley Physics group!

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