Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Happy St Patrick's Day... #jcscience #density #PW2 #edchatie 040
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 010
Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Looks great. We're all looking forward to seeing this. Scheme of work is a great addition. 010
Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Revisiting electricity and simple electronics this week. Comparing current and voltage in series and parallel circuits #PW2 #PW5 #JcScience 000
Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 26/02/20253rd year students are investigating the forces generated by mousetrap catapults. Good practice on data collection and graphing skills. #JCScience #iteachscience 100
Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 25/02/20256th year biology students examining flower structure. Nice views of various types of pollen. #lcbiology #plantreproduction #iteachbio 020
Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 24/02/2025 Anyone doing the immune system at the moment? Here's a simple printable card game to help reinforce key ideas. Clear your hand of pathogens but don't get stuck with an overactive immune response. #LcBiology #immune #iteachbio docs.google.com/presentation... 010
Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 24/02/20255th year biology students practicing aseptic techniques using yoghurt #bacteria. We'll see how well they've done in a few days! #lcbiology 100
Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Starting 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... 110
Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Hi Ciara, I certainly wouldn't be happy signing off that it's the students own work. As far as I know the ASTI have some motions around that for the annual conference. It's a bit unfair to put all of this monitoring on our shoulders. It's a huge shift from being"on the students side" so to speak. 110
Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Thanks Yvonne. Interesting times ahead. Doing sense organs with 5th years at the moment. Drew my last ever eye diagram on the board today. Out with the old... 110
Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 16/12/2024The ISTA WhatsApp groups are a great innovation Humphrey, well done. Shout out also to Noel Cunningham for his science sharing group on Google. #edchatie 020
Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Good evening all. Science and Biology teacher in Dungarvan, Waterford. Past JCTscience associate and current associate with the Oide biology team. #edchatie 220
Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Students using the 'Moon Hat' today to model the different phases of the lunar cycle. #jcscience #ES4 010
Reposted by Mike Kavanagh 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...forms.gleEdchatIEA survey on the revived #edchatie discussions on Bluesky. 01022
Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 18/09/2024Used Google lens today to identify plants and insects for ecology field studies and it's very accurate. No need for a specialist app. #lcbiology 010
Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 29/12/2023Delighted 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/scienceonstage.ieResources • Science on Stage IrelandResources 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... 010
Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 14/12/2023Here's a simple paper model of the skin that #biology students might enjoy making. #iTeachChem #EduSky. Link below. docs.google.com/presentation... 381
Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 13/12/2023Some Christmas circuit challenges for students to try. Link below. #iTeachChem #EduSky docs.google.com/presentation... 010
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 0102
Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 12/10/2023Testing 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 000
Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 06/10/2023Garden flowers such as hydrangea or pelargonium work well. Boiled in water this time but you could also crush in ethanol giving a faster more concentrated extract. 010
Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 04/10/2023Week 5: preparing oxygen using catalysts found in yeast. 000
Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 04/10/2023Week 4: Preparing oxygen by using hydrogen peroxide and manganese dioxide. 100
Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 04/10/2023Week 3: Preparing carbon dioxide by reacting HCl with calcium carbonate and measuring the rate of gas production with a gas syringe. 100
Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 04/10/2023Week 2: Reacting magnesium and hydrochloric acid and testing the hydrogen produced with a lighting splint. 100
Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 04/10/2023Week 1 early September: Extracting and testing acid base indicators from flower petals. 200
Mike Kavanagh @mikekav66.bsky.social · 04/10/2023I'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) 240
