I’ve decided for the time being to concentrate my efforts on a new project VCEPhysics.com.
The aim is to provide a weekly podcast about the various aspects of the VCE Physics course, as well as providing a forum for students to ask specific questions.
So Flash Science is on hold for a while…..
Stay tuned for more.
Well as the new school years rolls around, so to does the conference season. For those interested, I will again be presenting at the STAV Physics teachers conference on February 18th, on the use of the virtual lab in the physics classroom. Here is a pdf of the presentation, with all of the relevant links at the end.
I’ve updated the circles learning object. It now has a 10 question review quiz at the end.
This learning object could be the basis of a Year 8 circle topic, so I’d love to hear how it’s being used in the classroom.
Finally a new learning object: Circles
There’s a lot in this one & it’s taken quite a few weeks of effort. (The calculator of area with exact fractions was the trickiest part!)
A very good introduction to the measurement of circle circumference and area.
There will be an update (soon? maybe?) including a ten question review quiz at the end.
Enjoy!
A few weeks ago I made some changes to the radioactive decay learning object to allow the choice of three different half-lives & as my students would say…… my bad. I just realised that the half-life didn’t always change (it would get stuck on 10 minutes.
I’ve fixed this up now, so you should be able to see fairly obviously from watching the black / white graph or from the time graphs that there is a difference. X has a half-life of 41 seconds (log 2 minutes), Y is 5 minutes & Z is 10 minutes.
For those interested, I made a presentation to the STAV Physics teachers conference on the use of the virtual lab in the physics classroom. Here is a pdf of the presentation, with all of the links at the end.
Hi folks,
It’s a new year & a new look blog.
Happy new year!
So, I’ve really slowed down on the site this year. There are a number of reasons, but I’m just making excuses. I have, however, embarked on the project of making all of the source code available for users to do what they want & making windows or mac projectors of the learning objects available for off-line use.
It’s been a very slow year for me, so this is a bit of an apology & an explanation. So why so little new content this year? Well…. firstly there are always lots of things to do in life that are actually more important than spending many hours working on fiddly flash things. Second, it seems that most of the ideas that I’ve had for useful, original learning objects I’ve now completed or in the time that I’ve been working on this project someone else has done (& usually better than me too). So with some holiday time coming soon, I’ll try to finish off a couple of unfinished projects & evaluate anything that needs improvement for next year.
I’m presenting at the Science Teachers Conference on the teaching of electricity. Here are the documents if anyone is interested:
Teaching electricity presentation
Using multimeters
Year 8 prac notes , answers
Year 10 prac notes , answers
Electrical engineering workbook
