Also this 👇

If you’re a physics teacher who’s unhappy in your current context, know that you are very much in demand.

If you’re in charge of a physics/science department (or in charge of a school) then you *have* to look after your physics teachers.

If you don’t retain them, then recruitment & replacing them will be very very hard.

I definitely haven’t wasted half of my day going down a rabbit hole of stroboscopes and how AQA got the diagram from this book from the 60s

During a solar eclipse, the gaps between leaves on trees act as multiple pinhole cameras,

and each gap projects its own crescent-shaped image of the eclipsed sun onto the ground.

📹gottigreen

Took Ella to the aquarium as she’s just super interested in looking at things.

Bless her, she spent the whole time like 😯

I reckon it’s worth getting the Leidenfrost effect into GCSE physics lessons.

Relevant for particle model & thermal energy transfer lessons

It's been a while since I wrote a thing - here's a KS3 sheet on exothermic and endothermic reactions.

Writing things like this used to take me less than hour. Something about being a parent has made this take 3 days....

I *will* finish the KS3 books.

sciencedoctor.school.blog/ks3-project/

Right, the 'Science Doctor Chemistry KS3 workbook' has been like 80% finished for nearly a year.

Reckon it might be time to push this one over the finish line.

(green is what's written, red is what's left to write).

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I'll probably write another thing on this but I'm putting together some internal CPD on reducing workload.

Here are my six principles of reducing workload: