Wednesday 21 January 2009

As level quality of measurement coursework exemplars



Tesla coil & Leyden jar


The old meets the new. The idea here is to modulate the massive spark produced by the tesla coil to transmit music! Results here once we're done!

Waves mindmap



Tuesday 20 January 2009

Rocket project in roll-out


Just to show you that it's not all york and no play, i'm involved in a fun project with my school, to be launched (literally!) sometime in the spring. Watch this space :)

Saturday 17 January 2009

Method 2!


Using v=u+at

Projectile motion- solving flight time (1)


Quadratic equation method

GCSE Electricity mind map



Rocket science!


This ignores a few key things like air resistance, variable thrust and the rocket's mass changing with time- but it's a start :)

Thursday 15 January 2009

Wednesday 14 January 2009

Tuesday 13 January 2009

Measured times for finding g experiment


This is a graphical representation of a class set of data nicely showing the spread of times from our experiment. The median value of time was chosen because me the large spread of values.

Finding g by freefall


1.33 seconds was our median value of the time it took for a lump of plasticine to fall approx 11 metres. Our timing error meant our final value of g is anywhere between 9.4 and 17.2 m/s/s ! Solution- use a taller building :)

Sunday 11 January 2009

Wednesday 7 January 2009

The things to overcome...



Viktor frankl's view


Man's search for meaning

The driving force of education


A radical agenda!

Co-responsibility in education


Joint ownership!

Progression of education


Diagram flows from left to right :)

Keys to effective learning


The dna is the relationships between those involved. Easy to miss :)

Saturday 3 January 2009


Make 2009 your year of success!