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Adam Boxer @adamboxereducation.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

🚨Incredibly excited to announce this job 🚨 Are you interested in driving the future of professional development? Helping teachers everywhere get better faster? We changed the game on retrieval practice, we're going to do it on CPD. APPLY HERE Please share if you can 🙏🙏

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Bernard Rand @bernardrand.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

We have a lovely class set of little ripple tanks that allow them to play around and observe wave behaviour

Two adjacent dippers produce circular wavefronts that produce an interferance pattern showing regions of constructive and destructive interference.

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Helen Reynolds @helenrey.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Even though they say 'I don't need to use that' when I introduce 'squashy cos', by the end of the year they all use squashy cos to find components. #iteachphysics

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Alex Weatherall @aweatherall.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Day 23 - As I sit untangling my daughters Newton's cradle (!!!!) I need something relaxing and mindless to accompany the infuriating task. Luckily I have this video of a giant pendulum wave with notes for each swing. #iteachphysics #adventofphysics youtu.be/b8O1jlHyKpU

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Large Pendulum Wave - Glow Eindhoven 2013

YouTube video by Kermiscity

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Bernard Rand @bernardrand.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I like this one as a predict, observe and explain exercise to hammer home force on a current in a magnetic field and Fleming’s Left Hand Rule.

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Bernard Rand @bernardrand.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I’ve turned up some real gems from @helenrey.bsky.social’s spreadsheets. A really great resource when first planning or refining your teaching of a topic.

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Bernard Rand @bernardrand.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Wow, a lot of hard work has obviously gone into this and it features so many great ideas explained really well with links and videos. If you want new ideas for teaching magnetism from KS3-5 this has plenty.

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Helen Reynolds @helenrey.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Don't know whose this is, but it's up there for the best physics meme ever. #iteachphysics

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Bernard Rand @bernardrand.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Here it is going in circles, with a bit of help!

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Stuart Hayward @stuartteachphys.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Depends a lot on the framing and impact. There's a lot to be said for lay noticing/questioning (I saw this... what's the thinking?) One of the problems with lesson observation is that we have entangled observing and evaluating, and then put a lot of weight on those evaluations.

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Bernard Rand @bernardrand.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

A couple of students in my enrichment group have made a nice linear motor. #iteachphysics #chatphysics

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Bernard Rand @bernardrand.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

@drussellpsu.bsky.social has some brilliant animations for explaining waves for A level Physics. I’ve been using them for years as they are a brilliant aid for helping students understand the fundamental nature of waves. #iteachphysics #chatphysics

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Bernard Rand @bernardrand.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

@alomshaha.bsky.social has some beautiful explanations of some great physics demos here. #iteachphysics #chatphysics

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Bernard Rand @bernardrand.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Kicking a concrete football. A nice question for getting students thinking about force and momentum carefully.

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Michael Freeman @afreeparticle.com · 18/11/2024

In case it is helpful to all you teachers, here is my... Visibly Random Group Generator v7.3 🍎 Free, no ads 🍎 Set # of groups or group size 🍎 Checkboxes for absences 🍎 Add pairs of Ss that can't work together, be alerted of conflicts 🍎 Editable names & color to match classroom Link in reply 🧬🥽🎢♾️

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Bernard Rand @bernardrand.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Building little motors with batteries and neodymium magnets is great fun.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

New post just out: "Dropping Out" Why improvements to school standards are at serious risk. (Free to read) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/d...

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Dropping Out

Why improvements in school standards are at serious risk

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Bernard Rand @bernardrand.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

The drinks can induction motor. One of my favourite demos, putting Faraday’s and Lenz’s laws together in a fairly complex situation. To get them really thinking hard you can ask why the current trip on the supply only goes once it spinning at a good rate?

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Bernard Rand @bernardrand.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I’d love to add more people but in the mean time here is the UK Physics Teacher starter pack. go.bsky.app/ERKyHSM

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Bernard Rand @bernardrand.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Starting to put together a UK Physics Teacher starter pack. Reply if you’d like adding or let me know who needs including. #chatphysics #scieduk #iteachphysics go.bsky.app/ERKyHSM

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Bernard Rand @bernardrand.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

This is a nice little Physics puzzle.

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Bernard Rand @bernardrand.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

200g mass (i.e. about 2N) at each end of the string. What tension does the Newton metre read in the middle? #chatphysics #itachphysics

A string passes over two pulleys with a Newton metre in the middle. 200g mass hangs at the two end of the string.

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Bernard Rand @bernardrand.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Isaac Physics is great for getting students to practise problem solving and also for providing extension questions for the most able students. Here is my collection of boards for AQA A level Physics - docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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AQA Isaac Boards

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I would happily do what I do with Wikipedia - donate when they do their regular appeals for donations. I’m happy to pay for Bluesky and believe people should pay what they can afford.

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Bernard Rand @bernardrand.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I’m looking for a UK Physics teacher starter pack. If there’s one already please let me know, otherwise please reply and I’ll try and out one together. #chatphysics #iteachphysics

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Michael Freeman @afreeparticle.com · 04/11/2024

🎢 Here's a card sort I made for pulley systems/Atwood machines, with some friction and angles. Link with a pdf, a key, and and the original google slide in case you want to copy and edit: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

12 cards with different pulley system scenarios

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Bernard Rand @bernardrand.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Given the number of times I’ve seen students forget the factor of 2, I’m in the Tau camp.

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Fellow parents! Carers! Anyone looking after children over half-term! Here is a thread of videos showing TOYS you can MAKE at home from scrap stuff you probably have lying around. First, the utterly delightful "balancing bird" alomshaha.com/balancing-bi...

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Bernard Rand @bernardrand.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

For those teaching Maths or Physics - Empire’s latest podcast, Empire of Numbers, provides some great background for the adoption of the decimal system and so much more. #chatphysics podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

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194. Empire of Numbers: Fibonacci and the Birth of Modern Money

Podcast Episode · Empire · 14/10/2024 · 36m

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Bernard Rand @bernardrand.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

The answers to why the sky is blue and why are sunsets red are both illustrated well by this demo #chatohysics #iteachphysics

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LittleTinyDrC 🦄 @littletinydrc.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

Students muddle Newton’s third law pairs (which act on different objects) with finding the resultant force on a single object. The jump to the conclusion in the last box feeds this misconception??

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Bernard Rand @bernardrand.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

This was posted by a physics teacher on another app. I don’t think they’re on here so I hope posting it isn’t seen as an attack on them. Can anyone spot my problem with the slide (and it’s not the Formby reference)? #chatphysics

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