Posts Tagged ‘junior cert science’
Junior Cert Science: Unusual demonstration of magnetic fields
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: May 12, 2012
This week we looked at a concept called ferromagnetism which allows us to demonstrate the 3-dimensional nature of magnetic fields. Thanks to my first years for being so co-operative Here’s another way of illustrating the idea (which we didn’t do)
How to get an A in Junior Cert Science: Part 2 – the graphs
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: May 11, 2012
Since this science course was first examined in 2006 graph questions have become quite common. There are different types of graph questions, and we will look at each of these different types in turn. There is nothing scary here, and you have probably covered them all in maths anyway. It’s just that the science textbooks [...]
How to get an A in Junior Cert Science: Part 1 – the maths bits
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: May 5, 2012
Many students are turned off Physics because of the maths involved, yet you only need to be able to do ordinary level maths in order to answer all questions which will appear on the Junior Cert paper. Some of these are in the new log-tables, but others are not so you should really try to [...]
Junior Cert Science – Graphs and the phrase ‘directly proportional’
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: June 1, 2011
Usually there is at least one graph to draw on the Junior Cert Science paper, and if it’s in the Physics section then chances are it will be a straight line graph (the main exception is Cooling Curves). There’s nothing on the syllabus (that I’m aware of) that states that students are expected to know [...]
BOARDS.IE – An intriguing resource
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: June 24, 2010
boards.ie seems to win awards every year for its site. For me it merely highlights the fact that everybody seems to be communicating with each other except teachers – sure what would we have to talk about? Well here’s an interesting nugget – from the comments below (pasted from the relevant boards.ie pages) it would appear that [...]
Let’s remove voltage from the Junior Science syllabus; post #1
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: April 25, 2010
Dear Mr/Ms Junior Cert Syllabus writer, The time has come to question why the concept of voltage is still on the Junior Cert syllabus. It is by far the most difficult concept for students (and indeed teachers) to grasp. Consider a relevant extract from the Junior Cert Science syllabus Set up a simple electric circuit, [...]
Junior Cert Science – a guide to answering Maths questions
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: April 14, 2010
Answering maths questions is a skill which intimidates many students at Junior Cert level. the revsion page of thephysicsteacher.ie now offers a guide to answering maths questions in the exam. It includes a full set of maths questions and solutions taken from past-papers at higher and ordinary level. Hopefully seeing it laid out in this [...]
Junior Cert Science – a guide to answering exam questions
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: April 11, 2010
The ability to draw and interpret graphs is a skill which gets tested every year in the Junior Cert exam. However I have yet to see a lesson-plan on this; usually each graph is dealt with separately in its corresponding chapter. Which is why the revsion page of thephysicsteacher.ie now offers a guide to answering graph [...]
Survey finds Physics dropped in 10% of schools
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: April 2, 2010
With all the media attention on NAMA these times it’s understandable that most of us missed this headline from RTE the other day (hat-tip to eagle-eyed Jude for bringing it to my attention). The RTE article leads with the following: Research suggests that almost 10% of second level schools have been forced to drop Physics as [...]
The wonder of the cell
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: February 18, 2010
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; we need to put the wonder back in to science education. Currently the science syllabus in school couldn’t be more devoid of wonder if you went through it with a microscope and deliberately sucked out all the good bits. To put the wonder back in we [...]
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