S3 Renewables and Covid Recovery

Thinking Skills

Variables

Variables Worksheet

Keith Johnson has written an amazing book which is being updated regularly. You can access free powerpoints here. I really hope that he doesn’t mind me reproducing one of them here, but pop along there for a whole list of useful powerpoints for all your classes, or for students to brush up on lots of Scientific skills.

www.physics4u.co.uk

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Mrs Physics Dec 2021

WORMS MAKING FOR FREEDOM

October 20th 2019 and after a week of worry I decided it was finally time to investigate the wormeries and see if the kilogram of worms were still with us. I am finding the stress and responsibility of these hard to take.

My plan, empty each wormery on an old piece of vinyl, investigate what is there and remake each one as they’ll be alone for a week. This was made more difficult as a very cute and friendly robin has been following me around the garden for the last fortnight and passes behind you after you’ve moved any piece of garden soil.

It was really heartwarming to see oodles of big fat juicy worms fall onto the vinyl. They weren’t moving much but were certainly a good size and huddled together in some big piles. The bottom of the blue wormery was quite wet, this was the one with no drainage. The paper had gone slimy and the potato skins were still undigested. Katrina, your McDonald’s straw is still there, but I think the bacteria might be thinking about working on it. So a new cardboard base, screwed up paper, the worms and then some partially digested compost. Lid back on and ready for off. The robin was flapping around so I posted a guard at the door.

Even the pink wormery had worms but the bottom was slimy with sand and paper- whoops I forgot to take a photo of this. So I’ve made up the box, with fresh cardboard and moved some of the worms from the blue box to the pink one and added more partially digested leaf mould / compost. Lid back on.

I was in two minds as to whether I ought to hold out one for the robin as a treat, but then Miss Crozier came to mind and I couldn’t bear to sacrifice one of the little cuties. Everything back in order, I stepped inside to get cleaned up and then remembered I ought to take a photo of the robin. It was then I noticed the escapees. I’ve no idea where they came from but at least 10 were making their way to freedom down the cracks in the paving and across the slabs. I couldn’t pull one up (see photos). If the robin gets you it isn’t my fault as I did give you a little tug to put you back.

So to the Sophie and Hollie- I’ve not killed them and they ought to be ready for you to get them through the winter next week!

Sorry the photos are in the wrong order with the escapees first.

Worms move in!

Well, Wednesday 4th September one group in the Climate Catastrophe Group built their wormery. We are going to look into recycling of food and break down of fruit and vegetables. Worms do create greenhouse gases, but play an important part in maintaining the soil, which has taken a hammering over the last 60 years.

Unfortunately the worms arrived late on Thursday 5th September and had to be in the wormery before the weekend. The students hadn’t quite finished the wormery, so many came up during their lunch break and helped get the worms a temporary start. Our biggest concern is the amount of moisture that we need. The wormery isn’t a draining one, so getting the air and moisture levels is important. We also had to put all the worms in the one box as the second box wasn’t ready.

Let’s hope the worms make it through the weekend. The suspense is terrible and the temperature this weekend was pretty warm, the first dry weekend in four weeks- drat.

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Climate change

In these posts I’ll try to add content about the most important topic facing our world. I will only use evidence based Science to make my points.

Having Mr Physics on the case helps as he’s been involved in measuring this stuff from the late 1980s to the beginning of the twenty first century.

Here is the definitive link for all things Climate Change, ask an adult if it is too hard.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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Scientific Posters

Up until now when you’ve done a poster teachers have probably encouraged you to write very little, draw something eye-catching and maybe have a slogan. There is another kid of poster which is a scientific poster and that is very different.

In a scientific poster you need to get people to understand your

  • Title
  • Aim
  • Method
  • Findings
  • Conclusions
  • Research
  • Applications

This means that your poster will have writing and often quite a lot, but if you can put the information is a graph or photo- as they say a picture tells a thousand words.

Here are some scientific posters from the kind Science Community at Scottish Universities and also some Science on Stage Posters made by teachers about their work in schools, you might recognise some of them.

Don’t worry if you don’t understand all the content, you are using them as an idea of layout and what you need to add in.

Template for your Scientific Poster

Please use the correct template for your class. You can change any part of the slide, except the header.

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January 2022

S2 Transport -from 2018

S2 Lockerbie Academy Road Safety & Transport Notes from 2020

Here is the updated materials

Need to Know sheet

speed-distance-time word speed-distance-time pdf

Get some practice at speed distance and time questions

If the above are still a little too hard try the sheet below. Here I am not asking you to calculate speed distance or time, but can you extract the information from the sheet, write the equation and substitute?

S2 Unit 2 Test HEAT

Here are a few items that you can try for revision.

Click on the link below to try the Kahoot! Quiz if you never got on to that in class. Challenge your friends at a certain time.

https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/379ec6f8-02d8-4517-a0f3-032ccceeabd8

The document below contains a set of revision questions on Heat for you to try.

July 2019
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Forces 2020

S2 Forces Unit Material, containing the Assessed Practical and details for plotting graphs in Excel.

Wow! This is an important Physics topic, your first topic in the S2 physics course. All the info you cover in class is given below. We will start at the beginning but can rush through the bits that you’ve covered in primary.

Forces powerpoint and powerpoint pdf file for 2021 onwards

REST of THE WORLD

 

This sheet gives you details of what need to know for this block and for the test.

 

This is the workbook that you will use in class, get your own copy here, or use it to copy up what you’ve missed.

Here is the copy of the homework booklet, you can make a start on it whenever you’ve time and get ahead. Make sure you hand homework in on time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ned-wZ1hSPs&list=PL0sm9msj8Qd7gQ-qmUW9Ry7Pej3zZuCqE&index=2

Here is a great song for you to learn the difference between Mass and Weight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEQzAbizMYs

Hmwk PieceWk NoS2 Physics Homework Tasks
11Complete a title page called FORCES
21In the back of your jotter write a piece “What I learned about myself in S1 Science” This is not the topics that you covered- I know those, but what did you learn about yourself, your ability to think for yourself, try tasks etc. What skills have you learned .
32Forces Walk
4Hookes Law table & Hookes Law graph (this is an assessment piece)
5Literacy Task
6Answering the mass and weight questions
1st June 2019AllRevise the work you’ve completed this week and previous weeks

If you haven’t got results for the Hooke’s Law Assessment use the ones below. Copy the results into Excel, find the average extension using the formula =average(range) . Then plot a graph of Weight against average extension.

WeightExtension (cm)Extension (cm)
(N)‘/1‘/2
000
12.42.3
24.84.8
37.27.3
49.69.6
51212.1
614.414.2
716.816.5
819.219.1
921.621.5
102423.9

There is a separate post on EXCEL with details of how to create a table of results and plot a graph in Excel, which is useful for all students studying Physics, and other Sciences too- a useful life skill.

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May 2020

SCOTTISH SCIENTISTS

Scottish Science Homework Task
For those students who need a bit of structure

Above are the material for the 2019 S1 Scottish Scientist Competition. This is a compulsory homework piece.

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examples-of-scottish-inventions

Here is the task

Topic: How Scientists from Scotland, or working in Scotland have made a big difference to our lives.

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Task- Summary break down

  1. To research
  2. To identify a topic
  3. To present your work Details

1. You need to research and report on Scottish Science. Find some Science being carried out in Scotland that interests you, or some Scottish Scientists working abroad. The work must have happened after World War Two (WW2)- that means after 1945.

2. For the week beginning Monday 10th October, record on your template sheet who or what your chosen subject will be. This will then be discussed with your teacher to make sure it is meets the rules.

3. When your teacher has said your project meets the standard you should research more into your topic.

4. Present your work (by 18th November ) including the following:

  • a. Your Name,
  • b. Your Register class,
  • c. Who or what Science or Scientist you have researched?
  • d. What Science do carry out (this must be Science and not social science etc.)?,
  • e. How is this Science relevant to us?
  • f. What effect have they made on the environment or society?
  • g. Where did you get your information (include the sources); for example, record the website or book you used to obtain the information?
  • h. Try to find or draw some pictures to go with your topic i. The minimum length is one side of A4 paper, the maximum is 4 sides of A4 paper. The person submitting the best piece of work will win the JUNIOR SCIENCE TROPHY.
  • DEADLINES One sentence on who or what you plan to study: Science period during week beginning 10th October

Final document: 18th November

Homework Help: See your teacher if you need additional help or would like to attend a homework class to help get you started.

Possible sources of information

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/15812174

http://www.rsc.org/

http://www.gla.ac.uk/students/researcherdevelopment/threeminutethesiscompetition/scienceandengineering/

http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/publications/directory/directory_nolist.pdf

For the link above it might be a good idea to start near the end (about p40), but make sure you choose a Scientist, and not a social or political scientist (who aren’t really scientists)

http://www.strath.ac.uk/research/researchnews/

http://www.sciencescotland.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scottish_scientists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Scottish_scientists

Add a comment below if you need further help or ask your Science Teacher.

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