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Some of my equipment is very expensive and dedicated to only one job or experiment .Lego EV3 on the other hand can be used with some ingenuity to create many different types of equipment, to record all types of events. Here we are measuring Gravity by free fall and creating this out of Lego can a...

A quick and simple way of creating you own ripple tank using a plastic lid, a couple of books and a light. Watch the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l-tIvvtCPA

A Level Maths Teaching. As well as covering the sciences, we also cover Maths at both GCSE and A Level. Many of our students struggle with some of the harder concepts such as Trig Equations and solving them. This weeks A level Maths lesson dealt with this problem showing approaches to solving the...

In todays A level Biology Video we looked at Glycolysis, the Link reaction, The Krebs cycle and Oxidative Phosphorylation. The process of Glycolysis breaks down glucose into 2 3 carbon sugars only producing a small amount of energy. The link reaction does a little more, but the Krebs cycle makes ...

Looking at how plants take up water is an essential experiment in Biology. A small piece of plant in this case some water cress is inserted into a tube at the top making a water tight seal. The potometer shown here allows an air bubble to be brought into the apparatus, using a syringe, so that th...

Three allotropes of Carbon, Diamond, Graphite and Buckminster Fullerene are known. There is another, a one slice of graphite (graphene) that is rolled into a tube to make a carbon nanotube called a carbon fibre. This model was created by me since a manufactured model didn't exist. I made a sheet...

Making crystals of silver from silver nitrate. First we wrapped the wire around a pencil to make a coil. This creates a larger surface area and produces more silver. Next the solution 0.1M Silver Nitrate is added to cover the copper coil in a test tube. This is then left in a dark place for an ho...

Measuring the speed of sound in a column.
In this experiment I have taken a tuning fork, a hollow tube and a measuring cylinder filled with water. The hollow tube can move up and down creating a length of air in the column above the water. The tuning fork is placed over the column and the column ...

This week we launched our A level Topic by Topic Series, covering Maths, Chemistry, Physics and Biology. These are a series of live streamed lessons covering these core subjects. Each week we take a different topic and try to explain it simply using experiments, models and hands on teaching. Join...