Food Chain Fun!

February 22nd, 2010

foodchains

Click the above picture to have some fun completing food chains.

Intermediate 1 Nasty Nine Test 02

February 19th, 2010

Investigate electric circuits.

January 19th, 2010

phet

This is a great site to help you understand the electric circuits you have been studying.
You can run it on your computer or download it and use it offline.

PHET Circuit Construction

Merry Christmas.

December 21st, 2009

I set my young scientists a Christmas Poster competition, all they had to do was dream up the best present that a scientist could find in his/her stocking on Christmas morning.

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Sun`s path June to December

December 6th, 2009

Sun`s path through the sky over 6 months.

Last June I placed some photographic film into a tin cannister with a small hole punched into its side. The tin cannister was then attached to a clothes pole in my backgarden and left.

This afternoon I fetched the cannister and took the photographic film out. My son John scanned the photographic film and with the aid of some image software made the image negative.
The result is the picture above.
The picture clearly shows the path of the sun through the sky over the last six months.
I believe you can see we didn`t have a great summer by the broken lines at the top. More sun shone in the month of October.

This has been a fascinating simple project that was carried out very easily.
If you want to try out the project then follow the link below.
In a few weeks time it will be the winter solstice when the sun will be in its lowest arc across the sky. Try it out over the next six months and make a record of the sun`s path yourself.

Solar Path Experiment

First year find out about light.

November 29th, 2009

This is a video made of the pictures of the light experiments which my first year science class took during the lessons.
They used their mobile phones in an appropriate manner and bluetoothed the pictures to my phone.
This is an excellent example of using mobile phone technology in the lab.
Well done first year.

To make your own videos try this online video maker called Stupeflix.
Try making your own.

Potential & Kinetic Energy Fun!

November 18th, 2009

kepefun

Fancy yourself as a theme park creator? Then try out this wonderful simulation.
Watch out for the changes in energy. Check out how gravitational potential energy can be changed into kinetic energy.
Go on! Have some fun with physics.

Theme park physics

Interactive Periodic Table

November 18th, 2009

mendeleev

Click on the link below to take you to an interactive periodic table.

Interactive periodic table

Try and answer these questions:

  1. How many elements are gases at 25 C?
  2. How many elements are liquids at 25 C?
  3. Write down the elements that are called Noble gases
  4. Make a list of the elements which are called Halogens
  5. Write down one element that is an alkaline earth.
  6. Where was copper originally mined?

Mr Mallon`s Science Class: Cell Documentaries

November 8th, 2009

Here are three videos recorded by my science classes about cells. They recorded their videos using FLIP video cameras.
They put a lot of work into their productions. We hope you enjoy the videos and it helps you learn about cells.

The Monkey and the seatbelt.

October 10th, 2009

Hi physics lovers! Here is a wee movie we filmed using our physics monkey to show us how seatbelts prevent drivers and their passengers from being injured when their cars stop suddenly.

  1. Think
  2. History of seatbelts