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Task 1:. Take a stick of chewing gum and chew well until you could blow a bubble from it if desired. Now take a piece of chocolate and place it in your mouth and suck it until it dissolves. What do you notice?. What ideas could you teach using this experiment / equipment?. Task 2:. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Task 1:
Take a stick of chewing gum and chew well until you could blow a bubble from it if desired. Now take a piece of chocolate and place it in your mouth and suck it until it dissolves. What do you notice?
What ideas could you teach using this experiment / equipment?
Task 2:
Have a play with the powder provided. Add small amounts of water to the dish – what happens? How do the properties of the powder change?
What ideas could you teach using this experiment / equipment?
Welcome to AGS
Our aims?
4
To develop a sharing best practice steering group
Hold meetings to develop targeted CPD,
Hold coursework support meetings
Development of a Wiki to allow teachers to collaborate and share ideas
Development of high quality support and pupil centered resources;
Pilot G&T taster days for local pupils and coordinate a guest lecture program to inspire pupils from the network of schools
Our aims:
To provide support for delivering Triple Science
• for ourselves
• our pupils
To increase the profile of science in our schools and the uptake of pupils into science based courses – in particular Triple Science
Objectives tonight
Find out about more the project, the network, the CPD events and available support
Meet likeminded colleagues
Find out more about changes to the GCSE specifications (2011)
Take away some (new) ideas
Introduce yourselves
Our group
Alcester Grammar School
Alcester High School
St Benedicts Roman Catholic High School
Studley High School
Southam College
Westwood School (Coventry)
Southam College
Bilton School
Stratford High
Ranelagh
Hanham High School
Nick’s School
Stratford High School
St Augustines RC High School Reddich
DinahBarry
Cath Lowe
Higham Lane School
Dates for your diary
12th October 2010
Triple Science Learning Visit
13th October 2010
Chemical Magic – Year 8 / 9 lecture
20th October 2010
Teaching physics – CPD for non-specialists and experienced teachers alike
10th November 2010
CommunityExcellence in Partnerships - Sharing what works!
17th November 2010
APP – the teachers toolkit
1st December 2010
Fantastic Plastic – Year 10 lecture
19th January 2011
Next Twilight session
26th January 2011
Chemistry (and e-learning) CPD – for non-specialists and experienced
teachers of chemistry
2nd February 2011
The physics of sound – Year 8 / 9 lecture
9th February 2011
The new GCSEs – developing resources
Saturday 5th March 2011
Mini- conference
The LSN community
http://community.triplescience.org.uk/Pages/Default.aspx
The triple Wiki
http://triplewiki.wikispaces.com/
The triple Wiki
http://triplewiki.wikispaces.com/
GCSE 2011
Before you go
Check contact details
Sign up for events
Hand back the school profile sheets
Homework
Log onto the LSN Community
Search through the resources and bring a recommendation for next meeting
Log onto the Triple Wiki - challenge – can you add anything to it?
Promote the events in your school
GCSE Astronomy