Subject: Physics Level: GCSE/A Level Link: https://www.flippedaroundphysics.com/ Flipped Around Physics is an incredible resource if you are a Physics teacher, especially for those teaching outside of specialism. Created with ‘flipped learning’ in mind, but absolutely perfect to slot into whatever teaching style you use, the site combines information PDF with quizzes the students can do…
Author: Jihye
Glossaries and Vocabulary Quizzes
I know it might make me seem old fashioned, but I am championing the returning of the word bank and weekly vocabulary quiz. In Science, we learn as many new vocabulary words in school as we do when learning a foreign language. I think we all too easily forget that, as well as teaching scientific…
Tales from the Chalkboard – Fear
Over my, probably far too many, years in teaching, I have amassed a never-ending cycle of fairly wholesome anecdotes about my classes, and today, I would like to share one that has particularly stuck with me. I once taught an upper-school student who was terrified of spiders. Their fear of spiders reverted them back to…
Plant Folktales and Biodiversity
In my most recent research haul, I had a lot of catching up to do after a particularly hectic couple of months. So I took it upon myself to look over Issue 27 of the Journal of Emergent Science from last November and see what I had missed, only to discover almost immediately an article…