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Mike Kavanagh

@mikekav66.bsky.social
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Biology and Science teacher, Waterford, Ireland

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Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Happy St Patrick's Day... #jcscience #density #PW2 #edchatie
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Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The last week of physics revision for 3rd years. Building battety powered cars to bring together circuits #PW5, energy transformation devices #PW7 and distance time graphing #NOS4, #PW2 And more importantly a bit of fun! .🚙💨 #jcscience #iteachscience
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Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
3rd year students are investigating the forces generated by mousetrap catapults. Good practice on data collection and graphing skills. #JCScience #iteachscience
Force meter attached to mousetrap arm.Graph showing that spring force decreases with arm length.
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Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
6th year biology students examining flower structure. Nice views of various types of pollen.  #lcbiology #plantreproduction #iteachbio
Microscope view of pollenSelection of insect pollinated flowersFlower part arranged in a whorlFlower under binocular microscope seen from the side.
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Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Starting bacteria and fungi soon. Here's a printable card sort activity to introduce the 5 kingdom and 3 domain classification systems. Have a go with your students and let me know how it goes. #LcBiology #Classification #iTeachBio #scienceteaching. docs.google.com/presentation...
Characteristic features of each kingdom.Photos of example members of each kingdom, cow, fern, yeast, bacteria, amoeba
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Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Good evening all. Science and Biology teacher in Dungarvan, Waterford. Past JCTscience associate and current associate with the Oide biology team. #edchatie
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Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Students using the 'Moon Hat' today to model the different phases of the lunar cycle. #jcscience #ES4
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Julian Girdham @sccenglish.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
#edchatie folk - following last night's first discussion, a quick survey this week on topics, time and hosting. pls repost rather than 'Like'. Volunteers to host much appreciated... forms.gle/DXs9gCPcP47g...
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A survey on the revived #edchatie discussions on Bluesky.
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Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Used Google lens today to identify plants and insects for ecology field studies and it's very accurate. No need for a specialist app. #lcbiology
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Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
Delighted to be involved with these enthusiastic group of Science teachers over the last year. #ScienceOnStage. Check out all the free resources available on the Science on Stage Ireland website. www.scienceonstage.ie/resources/
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Resources • Science on Stage Ireland
Resources Science on Stage Books Books of teaching ideas and demos selected by the Irish team members at European festivals (2000-2022) have been produced. These books have been sent to all science t...
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Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
Here's a simple paper model of the skin that #biology students might enjoy making. #iTeachChem #EduSky. Link below. docs.google.com/presentation...
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Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Some Christmas circuit challenges for students to try. Link below. #iTeachChem #EduSky docs.google.com/presentation...
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Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
A little glucose, benedict's solution and heat for a nice spooky display. Happy Halloween. #iTeachChem #EduSky
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Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
Testing the vapour from a fermentation flask with a cheap alcohol breath tester. Gave a result of 1.5 g/l and a satisfying danger beeping sound. It's difficult to get a positive result in the iodoform test for small quantities of alcohol. Each group got a beep so everyone is happy. #iTeachChem
Digital alcohol breath tester showing 1.5 g/lDigital alcohol breath tester sitting in a flask of sugar yeast and water.2 flasks in a water bath at almost 30 degrees Celsius. One flask has sugar, yeast and water.
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Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
I'm going to do a series of posts here on activities I'm doing with 2nd year science students. (Year 9s in UK I believe)
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