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Written by The Magic Physics Pixies
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Sunday, 20 May 2012 19:55 |
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A great dialogue on SPUTNIK recently challenged some of the models and beliefs many of us have about just exactly what happens in a simple electrical circuit when a battery lights a bulb. From Paul Chambers (via a post by Tom Clark), light was shed on the problem (pun intended) by a brilliant paper produced by Ian Sefton of the University of Sydney, called "Understanding Electricity and Circuits: What the Text Books Don’t Tell You".
You might like to read it yourself - download the pdf here. |
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Last Updated on Sunday, 20 May 2012 20:08 |
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Written by Martyn Crawshaw
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Thursday, 03 May 2012 06:21 |
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In the Nat4_Nat5 folder on this site, you will find our model for S3 and S4. I was asked to share a rationale to allow others to understand the thinking in the hope that it might inform your own curriculum design.
Cfe Curriculum Model – Millburn Academy
The need?
To schedule coverage of the new CfE physics qualifications for mixed ability classes over two years as that is the school’s curricular model of ‘minimal change’. Timetable constraints meant that we are unable to offer classes streamed into National 4 (N4) or National 5 (N5) separately as most S2 pupils will aspire to N5 certainly in the early months of S3. S1/2 Science covers most of third level but little of fourth level CfE Es & Os, point of choice is March of S2.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 20 May 2012 21:02 |
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Written by Nick Hood
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Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:53 |
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Drew Burrett suggested that it might be a nice idea to allow users to share good practice by publishing their own articles directly onto this site. If you're a registered author (which you are if you're logging in and can see the "Browse Resources" link on the left), you can click on the "Submit an article" link to begin writing your post.
Once you've written your piece, set the Publishing options (see below) and click "Save". Try it! It might get held before publishing, we'll try this at first to see how it goes and what the interest it like.
Publishing options (recommended).
Section: News and Information
Category: News and Information
Show on front page: Yes
Finish publishing: Set a date if you want your post to disappear after a certain date.
Access level: Public, Registered or Special. Special means people like you and not the common people. |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:56 |
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Written by Drew Burrett
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Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:00 |
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Cross-posted from Drew Burrett's blog:
I’ve been trying to show my AH pupils all of the experimental work for Unit 3 during this week, as it’s the last week of the course before their NAB next week.
Having gone over much of the theory before Easter and encouraging them to cover the theory on Scholar, I set up a few of the interference experiments – Young’s Slits with microwaves and using a He-Ne laser, which are both nice and obvious and relatively reliable (for physics demos). We took a few measurements and used them to find the wavelength for the microwaves and the slit separation, d, for the laser experiment.
We also used the travelling microscope to measure the slit separation, using a flexi-cam and projector to show both the view down the scope and the readings on the Vernier scale.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 03 May 2012 06:40 |
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