This is a great way for students to get to know their way around the Periodic Table of Elements. Students should give their firing coordinates as Groups and Periods.
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Not Quite Rocket Science
I’ve just been reading about a brilliant project being run between the UK Space Agency and the RHS in which participating schools can grow seeds that have been sent into space.
www.gov.uk/government/news/rocket-science-turning-uk-children-into-space-biologists
Sadly, it’s only available to UK schools. Here in Thailand, Year 7 students have been learning about the conditions necessary for germination and we now have lots of different seedlings growing in planters in the corridor outside my classroom.
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These are a great way of summarising the properties of elements, radiation, biological molecules etc. in a format that the students instantly recognise and can relate to.
Keeping it Simple
I often find that really simple visual aids are all that are needed to make otherwise quite complex concepts spring to life in the students’ minds. For example, a balloon inside a cardboard box to represent the protoplast inside the cell wall of a plant cell (particularly useful when teaching plasmolysis), pipe cleaners as polysaccharide chains or for demonstrating protein structure, and drawing pins stuck in ping-pong balls as viruses or cell-surface antigens.
Cubes!
Cubes are great for displaying information or for modelling structures like the human skin or the cross-section of a leaf. They can be hung in the classroom so also make eye-catching displays. Templates are easy to find online.
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