Scienc as a subject has been a little neglected of late and we are currently nearing the end of a critical chapter. Basically it is on "Doing Science". I say critical because it is what Science is all about - but you wouldn't think so looking at the text book. It is all recipe practicals. This chapter sets the students up with practical design skills but then ignores them until the beginning of next year.
Oh well, I will change that this year. Also, how can explain words like hypothesis, variable, fair test and so on when they are not ready to hear what these words mean.
I am currently thinking about the next chapter on states of matter which, again, is an important chapter but is handled very poorly. I was thinking about marooning the students on the moon or in space in full astronaut uniform, but they have to work out how to boil water or make ice cubes up there. They will have to discover what conditions exist on the moon and why it would be so hard to carry out these tasks there. Still working on this.
2 groups in the class won the Maths problem of the Week and so won a can of drink and a Mars bar. They were pretty happy about this and the others were quite envious. Maybe this will spur them on to greater heights for the next one.
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