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Bikes – An Accessible and Versatile Context
James de Winter and Alan Denton join us to tell us the many ways in which a simple bicycle can be used to provide an accessible context for Physics. Moment, pressure, forces, sound, power and more can all be looked at through the lens of a bike. Timestamps A Fifth Fundamental Force? @ 00:47 Bikes…
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Underrepresentation (the elephant in the room)
Moses Rifkin came to the attention of Fox news for his short course on underrepresentation in Physics and Science and this led to the The Underrepresentation Curriculum Project. He tells us his story. Timestamps The Underrepresentation Curriculum with Moses Rifkin @ 00:53 Moses’ Practical in Memoriam – eggs from the sky! @ 31:50 Summary Moses…
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Birdsong – Connecting Physics with the Real World
Friend (now Hero, surely?) of the Podcast James de Winter talks birdsong and uses it as an example of how to connect physics with the real world in more imaginative ways. We all know how it goes, you teach newton 3, you talk about a rocket, you teach momentum you talk about trucks and cars…
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CLEAPSS, The Physics Teacher’s Best Friend (and a few Loose Ends)
We have a final missive from Charlie, the response to WTT Ionising Radiation and an Interview with Samir from CLEAPSS. S02E10 Timestamps Thank you for the jam, Stuart Farmer @ 00:49 Update from Charlie @ 01:15 We love Chemistry and we have imposter Syndrome @ 5:03 Follow up to Ways to teach… Ionising Radiation @…
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Force or False (Forces @ Primary School)
Ex -colleague and ex-colleague Andy Harrison is writing a scheme of work for Primary Science and asks Thomas and Robin to help him with his understanding of forces. S02E09 Timestamps What’s a force? @ 02:40 Gravity @ 04:20 Electrostatics @ 08:20 Reaction/Support force @ 17:30 Energy @ 21:12 Summary Ex-colleague Andy Harrison reached out to…
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Ways to teach… Ionising radiation
Listeners have been more than generous with some tips for ionising radiation and how to teach it. Thomas, Robin and Patrick introduce some great ideas and discuss how to put IR in context. Wisdom and wit Patrick, Thomas and Robin get together to tackle ways to teach Ionising Radiation with context proving to be the…
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CPD at SPEED
Our first foray in to the wild as we took our shiny new audio recorder (aka Albert Einstein) to the SPEED Physics teaching conference in Cambridge. SPEED is organised by the legend who is Ally Davies and is a well-established and popular CPD event for teachers in East Anglia. If you would like to pop…
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Mary, Mass and Melting
Our first T-shirt winner, Mary Wild, joins us to chat about helping Charlie with mass, weight and gravity and also to share a practical she loves: Specific Latent Heat of fusion for Ice. S02E06 Timestamps Introducing our guest Mary Wild (@MaryWild) @ 01:10 Physics in the News – Static Spiders @ 02:15 Charlie’s audio diary…
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Active Instruction
Trying to cheer up Thomas, who has had a bad day, Patrick introduces the concept of Active Instruction. Also an update from Charlie and our first contact through WhatsApp! S02E05 Timestamps Thomas has an announcement @ 00:44 Thomas has had a bad week @ 02:00 Update from Charlie @ 04:45 Patrick introduces Active Instruction @…
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Open Evenings
It is Open Evening time of year. Dan Toomey (@MrDToomey) joins us from Dublin to share what he does to entertain parents and students and also give some advice to Charlie the non-specialist who is starting to enjoy teaching Physics. S02 E04 Timestamps Introducing Dan Toomey @ 00:48 Open evenings @ 01:43 What Should Charlie…