Week 2 of the term went very smoothly. On Friday the year 8s made volcanic toffees in the demo kitchen and apart from a few hot plates not working the toffees worked well. They connected to obsidian and pumice. This class are making a rock collection although I have only had them tell me how it is going so far.
I did a double lesson on Magnetic fields and electromagnetism. Because of all the lessons missed with this class it’s all I could manage. I used lots of demonstrations of various phenomena to tell the story from magnetic fields to electromotive force. The class have started nuclear and atomic physics with an investigation based on size approximation and a history of the model of the atom (well as far as Heisenberg anyway.
10 Science used piktochart to create a visual presentation about the evolution of an animal. The task asked them to show evidence and any alternative explanations along with their reasons for supporting one of the other.
9 Science Combustion reactions. Burning fuels and designing investigations to measure energy released. The key part was to think of ways to improve on the investigations as we went.
Stage 2 Physics revision of derivations and some of the applications. I think they’re all coming back next week.
Stage 2 Chemistry quizzing on the memory based parts of the course.