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Wonder in Science (why do we hide it?)
Yes, yes, yes, yes! Just read this online article from Simon Jenkins in the Guardian I devour popular science, finding its history and its wonder a constant delight. . . . It is a mystery how so many...
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The BBC – supporting Science
Tagline: This series is part of World of Wonder – a year of Science across the BBC in 2010. From popular science to Chaos Theory, there’s a little something for everyone. Did you know that the BBC has...
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An Engineer’s Guide to Cats
For many years now many of my brightest and best students have gone on to study Engineering, despite my best efforts to the contrary. I consider an engineer to be a physicist who has lost his sense of...
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Harry Chapin – Flowers are red
Criticising our education system is not new – why would it be when it’s like shooting fish in a barrel? One of the better known recent commentaries came from Sir Ken Robinson at a TED conference a few...
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Why does Science Week bug me so much?
What is it about Science Week that gets under my skin so much? It seems to be the one week in the year where we are supposed to go out of our way to make science interesting; the corollary being that...
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My contribution to Science Week – I thought I might teach some physics
At 40 mins long it’s not going to go viral anytime soon. It’s the middle 40 minutes of a double class but in it we managed to learn about some of the following: The structure of the atom. We, and...
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Everything a Primary School teacher (or student) needs to know about gravity....
This post is in the context of a question posed by a primary teacher on a forum recently. Rather than reply there I thought it safer to do so where I could offer a more comprehensive answer. We tend to...
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Why do we remove Wonder from Science Education?
If it’s possible to dedicate blogposts to individuals then I choose to dedicate this to my aunt; Sr Cathy. Like many religious folk I know, her passion for Science may well surpass her passion for her...
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Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Einstein: not a bad roll-call
The following is an edited extract from notes which I give to students before going through the derivation for the rather intimidating equation below. Congratulations You have just arrived at an...
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