Updated 24 February 2000
Spidercox uses the web as much as possible for teaching resources: here are some of the sites that were useful, amusing, or just pretty.
General:
New
Scientist - Planet Science website contains articles from the magazine,
past and
present.
How stuff works - a huge site that will answer most questions about how gadgets work
Institute of Physics - information about the work of the IoP, publications etc.
'Bad Science' - things you were told at school that are actually half-truths or wrong
Voyager project info
Physics link - the ultimate resource page
Molecular
Expressions Photogallery - see photos of what your favourite beer really
looks like.....
Microgravity - experiments done in space
Linda Williams' Net Node - this woman performs and sings ... about Physics
The site to visit on the 1999 Eclipse
Units - SI base units and their conversion factors
More definitions and a dictionary of Physics
Dave's Physics archive - a huge selection of great questions and solutions at top A/Level standard
Nuclear and Particle Physics:
CERN - birth place of the Web and loads of info about Particle Physics research
JET - info on research into fusion
Royal Holloway and Bedford New Colleges - handouts on particle physics
Oxford University Particle Physics - information about their research
UKAEA - home page of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
Greenpeace - home page for the alternative view
Plasma Physics - set up your own tokomac
Atomic force microscopes - 'seeing' atoms
Photoelectricity - including a good little java applet
Waves:
Diffraction pattern through bathroom glass - picture of whitelight diffraction
Diffraction - fresnel, fraunhofer
Superposition - a useful little demo program
Colours and shadows - another useful little demo
Optical illusions - a great site for explaining comon illusions
Thermodynamics and fluid flow:
Viscosity - some experiments to do and calculations to make, relating to back to lava flow
U-values - calculation and application
Frozen frogs - why wood frogs survive sub-zero temperatures
The affect of microwaves on furbies
Penguins everywhere - including some stuff about thermodynamics and keeping them warm!
How things fly
Ideal gases - virtual laboratory
Electricity:
All about the electric chair - some of the Physics is a bit off but it's informative.....
Leaking electricity - all that stuff about how appliances on standby eat up the watts
Electricity demand profiles including a graph of how demand changed during the England v Germany Euro 96 game
The other Sciences:
Chemistry
timeline - a historic record of Chemistry through the ages and a worksheet
on the chemistry of farting - thanks to Andy Willock for this one
Having a barbeque ? light it with LOX .........and run
Atmospheric pollutants - 24 hour monitoring from many UK cities; figures can be downloaded to Excel.
Good chemistry demos and some other experiments too (alkali metals etc)
The official site for how the heavy elements are named
Yet more links for chemistry teachers
Pictorial periodic table
Salters' Chemistry Club Handbook
Science on the London Underground - posters
Camp
Yucky - like the Science of grossology book; all you ever wanted to know
about
gross biological discharges
Cool Science - info on some of the GCSE courses available.
Exploring planets in the classroom
How shapes of blood drops help forensics
Recycling information for schools
And some stuff about UK education:
Advancing Physics - IOP page for the development of the new A/Level courses
CASE - the homepage and also the members' page
The National Curriculum (old) - okay, a drag, but it is really useful to download bits at times !
The National Curriculum (new)
PRI (pupil research initiative)
Schools' Online Science project
Association for Science Education
HoD's homepage - written for heads of Department - how to run your department well
That
Friday feeling - the TES homepage
Exam boards:
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