Archive for February 2009
Leaving Cert Physics notes updated
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: February 22, 2009
- In: notes
- 3 Comments
This blog has been fairly quiet recently; I have spent every spare minute updating the student notes on the website and feel very proud of my work. I don’t know if anyone else is going to notice mind, but then I guess that’s not the point. For each chapter I have included all past exam [...]
Out of the mouths of babes . . .
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: February 11, 2009
- In: creativity | humour
- 2 Comments
These are doing the rounds on the email circuit (thanks Ciaran). Wonderful, yet terribly sad in that we associate these silly answers with young ‘uns, probably because older students have had this lateral thinking ‘educated’ out of them. TEACHER: John, why are you doing your math multiplication on the floor? JOHN: You told me to [...]
CESI conference 2009: Prepare to be inspired
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: February 8, 2009
- In: CESI
- 2 Comments
I’m definitely getting grumpier. As the years go by I get more and more annoyed with the isolation in which we teachers carry out our job. Not only is it possible for us to spend our entire career – from the day we graduate to the day we retire – without once being observed by [...]
Teaching Heat in Junior Cert Science
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: February 5, 2009
There are a large amount of experiments in this chapter: Expansion and contraction of solids. Expansion and contraction of liquids. Expansion and contraction of gases. Water is a bad conductor. Expansion of water on freezing. Comparison of conduction in various metals. Convection in liquids. Convection in gas. Compare radiation in bright and dark surfaces. Plotting [...]
What We Believe But Cannot Prove
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: February 4, 2009
This is the title of a pretty cool book which I received last year (thanks Jamie and Sarah), with the subtitle; Today’s Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty. It has a very impressive list of contributors including Leon Lederman, Jared Diamond, Steven Pinker and Charles Simonyi. Topics include Physics, Biology, Psychology and [...]
Neutrinos, John Updike and Cosmic Gall
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: February 3, 2009
I’m suspect it may not have been part of his overall plan, but the death of John Updike coincided (can I say ‘nicely’?) with our class on Neutrinos. There are some strange particles out there, but not many as strange as the neutrino. Here’s what the syllabus has to say on neutrinos: If momentum is [...]
Why are Science textbooks so boring?
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: February 1, 2009
- In: textbooks
- 3 Comments
‘ Been thinking about this alot. Why are Science Textbooks so boring? Surely it must be possible to write a book that illustrates The WONDER of Science The MYSTERY of Science The POWER of Science The POETRY of Science The BEAUTY of Science So here’s my plan. Next time a teacher wants to write a [...]
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