Archive for the ‘chemistry’ Category
Jim Al-Khalili as guest lecturer
Like me, you may have just watched the repeat of Chemistry – A Volatile History (Episode 2) on BBC4. By a happy coincidence, my Year 8 class are currently studying the periodic table (They already love The Elements Song) so I now plan to have @jimalkhalili in as a guest lecturer this week. Just watching […]
Filed under: chemistry, L2L, science, students, teaching | 5 Comments
Tags: BBC, chemistry, iplayer, Jim Al-Khalili, Periodic table, science, teaching
Behaviour Management by Flapjack
This isn’t quite as weird as it seems. Last year I had a very talkative (but good-natured) year 9 class. They weren’t malicious, but they just couldn’t be quiet; frequent interruptions and conversations, which were irritating even though they were often on-topic. So I started to write the numbers 10-1 on the board. Each time […]
Filed under: behaviour, chemistry, non-teaching | 1 Comment
Tags: baking, behaviour, cooking, flapjack
#asechat and #pimpmydemo
#asechat and #ukedchat It happened completely by accident. I happened to be on Twitter yesterday evening and some interesting posts showed up in my timeline tagged with #asechat. So I joined in. I already sporadically take part in #ukedchat. If you don’t, it’s worth a look; you may have recently read the Guardian article about […]
Filed under: biology, chemistry, CPD, physics, science, teaching, web | 3 Comments
Tags: #asechat, #pimpmydemo, #ukedchat, Archive, CPD, twitter
