17 August 2019

Electricity row game

Row games are a great way to encourage self-marking and discussion between students.
Here's one I've made for GCSE Physics:


@k8nowak explains:
Make a worksheet of problems organized in two columns. Column A and column B. The tricky part is the pair of problems in each row has to have the same answer. Obviously some topics are more suited to this than others. (Solving linear systems, easy. SOHCAHTOA, easy. Graphing inequalities, hard.)
Pair up the kids. Decide who is A and who is B. Tell the kids to only do the problems in their column. When done, compare answers to each question number with their partner. And if they don't get the same answer, work together to find the error. That last step is where the magic happens. I know how well I taught the topic by how busy I am while they are row gaming it up.

http://function-of-time.blogspot.com/2009/10/row-game.html

23 June 2017

Mindmaps/ concept maps of AQA GCSE Chemistry

In an attempt to get my head around the new AQA GCSE Combined Science: Trilogy curriculum I've been drawing mind/ concept maps of the topics. Here's my attempt at the first three topics.

The first three are drawn using SimpleMind on the iPad - the fourth is drawn using CMaps. 
CMaps is more useful for drawing true concept maps. 









9 September 2015

Chemistry - fundamentals of science videos

These are the very useful videos for the Fundamentals of science part of the Chemistry:

Ionic bonding clcik to see the clip

Covalent bonding:




Balancing chemical equations