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New Year’s Resolutions
It’s January and hence what better time to talk about some teaching New Year Resolutions. Rosie talks about her three resolution areas:
1) Teaching A-level exam technique
2) Using AI
3) Admin time savers for physics teachers
To which Thomas W-P and our special guest to the podcast this week, Callum Farnsworth, provide some super ideas.
Plus if you enjoy hearing from Callum in this episode then watch-out because he’ll be back soon to share more with us and the dear listener about his Ogden Senior fellowship project, called the PHET effect.
Links
- Ogden Senior Teacher Fellows placed at PhET
- Isaac Physics
- Previous Episode on Isaac Physics
- Previous Episode on using A.I. in Physics Teaching
- Chat GPT
- Claude AI
- TeachMate AI
- Lab Logger
- Arbor School Management Software
Join in!
Please share ideas or successes – or indeed questions by messaging us on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/physicstp.bsky.social . You can also message us via our website contact form on every page of the web site at the.physicsteachingpodcast.com, or email using the address given in the podcast (if we remember). We are moving away from X but can be found there as @physicstp.
Music
- Season 7: Physics Is Our Business by Miracles of Modern Science.
- Seasons 5 and 6: Crescents by Ketsa.
- Seasons 3 and 4: Disco Sheik by Podington Bear.
- Seasons 1 and 2: One legged equilibrist polka by Circus Homunculus.
- Occasionally we also use Cantina Rag by Jackson F. Smith.
The music is used under the Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License
Ogden Fellows and Seasonal Practicals
We chat with Jed Marshall and Simon Poliakoff about being and Ogden Senior Teaching Fellow which leads on to fun things to do with classes at Christmas which are solidly physicsy.
Thomas is a bit of a curmudgeon but grudgingly comes out with one he uses around fireworks night, but Jed and Rosie have some great ideas.
- Teabag Rockets
- Holograms using a phone
- Sparking Giant Capacitor
- Balloon vs Fluorescent Tube
- Science related Snow Flake decorations
- Making dry Ice from old carbon dioxide fire extinguishers
- Previous podcast episode on Christmas practicals
Links
- Ogden Senior Teacher Fellows placed at PhET
- Laser Blox Educational Laser Pointers
- Tea Bag rocket demo – YouTube
- Refraction with Jelly Lenses YouTube
- Science Snow Flake Templates
- Make a Hologram-Like Projector
- Light a bulb with a balloon
- Making dry ice with an old carbon dioxide fire extinguisher
Example Hologram film
Join in!
Please share ideas or successes – or indeed questions by messaging us on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/physicstp.bsky.social . You can also message us via our website contact form on every page of the web site at the.physicsteachingpodcast.com, or email using the address given in the podcast (if we remember). We are moving away from X but can be found there as @physicstp.
Music
- Season 7: Physics Is Our Business by Miracles of Modern Science.
- Seasons 5 and 6: Crescents by Ketsa.
- Seasons 3 and 4: Disco Sheik by Podington Bear.
- Seasons 1 and 2: One legged equilibrist polka by Circus Homunculus.
- Occasionally we also use Cantina Rag by Jackson F. Smith.
The music is used under the Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License
Festive Demos and Practicals
Ah, the end of term beckons! Mince pies, tubs of choccy selection and of course “Sir/Miss, can’t we watch a video?”. Thomas and Robin are both wary of 45 minutes of Shrek as a Christmas treat – Thomas tells the story of his daughter coming home and asking to see “the rest of Ratatouille” having seen the first 50 minutes 8 times!
And so we present a series of fun physics experiments that will give your students a taste of physics fun at Christmas.
Given that it’s been a tough old term and we are close to the end, we have also decided that this will be the last episode of 2020. Holiday fun is a good point to call it a day for what’s been a punishing year.
So it only remains to say an enormous thank you to you for listening, contributing, but most of all for teaching physics. Enjoy your break and here’s to a more… normal 2021.
Links
Thomas has a go - The Guardian reports that copper tape does not work with slugs!
- Christmas Circuits. Enhance your Christmas pics with some coloured LEDs. You’ll also need batteries and copper tape.
Join in!
Please share ideas or successes – or indeed questions by messaging us on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/physicstp.bsky.social . You can also message us via our website contact form on every page of the web site at the.physicsteachingpodcast.com, or email using the address given in the podcast (if we remember). We are moving away from X but can be found there as @physicstp.
Music
- Season 7: Physics Is Our Business by Miracles of Modern Science.
- Seasons 5 and 6: Crescents by Ketsa.
- Seasons 3 and 4: Disco Sheik by Podington Bear.
- Seasons 1 and 2: One legged equilibrist polka by Circus Homunculus.
- Occasionally we also use Cantina Rag by Jackson F. Smith.
The music is used under the Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License