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TAG, Mass and Weight
Thomas and Robin discuss a few strategies you might use to help you assess your exam groups in physics, as well as grappling with pervasive mass-weight confusion.
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Playing with Beats
Thomas was interested in how the brain makes its own beat, and put together this little sound test. You’ll need headphones to appreciate it properly, but it is interesting to listen to on speakers as well.
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Ways to teach… Sound (ish)
Loosely focused on KS3 (but when have we ever stuck to the brief), this episode looks at ways to teach sound with David Cotton, the most enthusiastic proponent of the topic.
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GCSE Long Answers and MyMarkingMachine.com
We are delighted to be joined by Mark Robinson (@mark_robo) who has had some deep thoughts about how to write and mark questions. So much so that he has taught a computer to do it for him and you can use it too!
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Covid Legacies: helping trainee teachers
We are delighted to be joined by the inspirational David Cotton to talk about supporting trainees who have missed out so much during the pandemic.
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Covid Positives
Thomas and Robin are joined by Patrick Kaplo from Wyndham, New Hampshire to follow up on a question he asked way back at the beginning of the Covid crisis, namely “How will this change our practice?”
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Literacy for Physics
We are delighted to be joined once more by Friend of the Podcast and Physics Teacher Support Polymath Carole Kenrick (@HelpfulScience) to talk about writing in Physics. Carole has put a lot of thought in to writing and breaks down in to three different reasons for writing: writing for learning, writing for remembering and writing…
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The definitive GCSE core practical guide…
We are so privileged this week to be joined by Christina Astin. She wears so many hats she would keep a division of milliners employed, but she kindly talks us through some of her most recent and most important work.
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nearpod
Will introduces us to Nearpod which is a beautifully designed teaching aid that has lots of excellent features to help you with AFL during lockdown.
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Another Lockdown Lowdown
Thomas and Robin chew the fat over how they are progressing in the new lockdown. We’ve been thinking about how to backfill gaps in the curriculum, in particular practical work. We have been making use of YouTube to draw on the generosity of colleagues who have filmed and uploaded videos, for example MissLowePhysics who we’ve…