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I am a Science Educator based in Peterborough. I have been teaching Science for 7 years and love to get young people excited about science. I also run parties.

I tutor to help science understanding of GCSE and A-Level. Message for further information.

09/02/2024

FUNNY FRIDAY
May the mass x acceleration be with you
(Name the film)

08/02/2024

THROWBACK THURSDAY

Dimitri Mendeleev was born on this day in 1834 in Tobolsk, Siberia, Russian Empire

He is best known for creating the Periodic Table of Elements, a cornerstone of modern chemistry. Published in 1869, it organized elements based on atomic weight and predicted properties of undiscovered elements. His bold predictions were later confirmed, solidifying the table's importance

He was born into a large family in Siberia, faced adversity early with his father's blindness and factory fire.
He excelled in academics, attending Saint Petersburg Technological Institute and Saint Petersburg State University.
He later became a professor at both universities, known for his engaging teaching style and dedication to research.

His work was not only on the periodic table he also advocated for the metric system in Russia.
Developed smokeless gunpowder and studied industrial

So Happy Birthday Dimitri!!

07/02/2024

WOW WEDNESDAY

We carry on our Harry Potter themed Wows!! So let me introduce to you to Eriovixia gryffindori.

Javed Ahmad, Rajashree Khalap and Sumukha Javagal discovered Eriovixia gryffindori in 2015 in the Indian state of Karnataka.

They thought the spider resembled the Sorting Hat of the Harry Potter series so they named it after Gryffindor. This is because the Sorting Hat originally belonged to Godric Gryffindor, one of the four founders of Hogwarts.

You can see the resemblance right??

06/02/2024

TELESCOPE 🔭 TUESDAY

This image of Uranus from NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows the planet and its rings in new clarity. The Webb image exquisitely captures Uranus’s seasonal north polar cap, including the bright, white, inner cap and the dark lane in the bottom of the polar cap. Uranus’ dim inner and outer rings are also visible in this image, including the elusive Zeta ring—the extremely faint and diffuse ring closest to the planet.

This Webb image also shows 9 of the planet’s 27 moons. They are the blue dots that surround the planet’s rings. Clockwise starting at 2 o’clock, they are: Rosalind, Puck, Belinda, Desdemona, Cressida, Bianca, Portia, Juliet, and Perdita.

05/02/2024

MICROSCOPE 🔬 MONDAY

What technological marvel are we looking at through the microscope? ..............................
A silicone chip which is making our technological revolution possible

02/02/2024

FUNNY FRIDAY
Chemistry is a little like cooking...but remember please don't lick the spoon

01/02/2024

THROWBACK THURSDAY

On this day in 1972, the first scientific hand-held calculator was introduced for $395 by Hewlett- Packard, named the HP-35 for having 35 keys. It was the first hand-held calculator able to perform logarithmic and trigonometric functions with one keystroke.

In 1970 HP co-founder Bill Hewlett challenged his co-workers to create a "shirt-pocket sized HP-9100".
At the time, slide rules were the only practical portable devices for performing trigonometric and exponential functions, as existing pocket calculators could only perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
As a result of his demand the HP-35 was 5.8 inches (150 mm) long and 3.2 inches (81 mm) wide, said to have been designed to fit into one of William Hewlett's shirt pockets.

It was also the first scientific calculator to fly in space in 1973.

What an amazing feat... especially as you consider the computers we used to land a man on the moon had the area of a small house and took minutes to run just one calculation....

31/01/2024

WOW WEDNESDAY!!!

For the next few weeks we will be having a Harry Potter theme. Due to the incredible success of the Harry Potter franchise certain biological discoveries have taken a Potter themed turn. Let me introduce you to our first new species...

Ampulex dementor
Native to Thailand, this species of cockroach wasp was first described in 2014 by Michael Ohl of the Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin, Germany.

This insect has an unusual behaviour towards cockroaches. As it stings its prey, it releases a toxin into the victim’s neural nodes.

The toxin then blocks the cockroach’s octopamine receptor, which is an important neurotransmitter and hormone. This leaves the cockroach alive but docile and with impaired motility.

By prodding with its antenna, the predator then escorts its victim into the wasp’s nest, where it can be dispatched more easily.

Since the wasp’s terrifying hunting method was similar to the soul sucking dementors from the Harry Potter series, it was then given the name Ampulex dementor.

30/01/2024

TELESCOPE 🔭 TUESDAY

It’s oh-so-easy to be absolutely mesmerized by these spiral galaxies. Follow their clearly defined arms, which are brimming with stars, to their centers, where there may be old star clusters and – sometimes – active supermassive black holes. Only NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope can deliver highly detailed scenes of nearby galaxies in a combination of near- and mid-infrared light – and a set of these images was publicly released today.

Some really exciting things have come out from these images. Still early speculation but Webb’s images show large, spherical shells in the gas and dust. These holes may have been created by one or more stars that exploded, carving out giant holes in the interstellar material. How amazing and beautiful!!

29/01/2024

MICROSCOPE 🔬 MONDAY

another week another image...might seem easier so let's make it a little harder...what type of clothing is this image taken from...........................
It is a pair of Jeans 👖

26/01/2024

FUNNY FRIDAY
What books do planets like to read?
Marvel Comets

25/01/2024

THROWBACK THURSDAY

On this day in 1627 Robert Boyle was born. He was a natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor.

Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method.

He is best known for Boyle's law, which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas, if the temperature is kept constant within a closed system.

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Because classrooms aren’t ‘One Size Fits All’ and the Fun should extend beyond School

I have been teaching Science now for over 7 years and have been working with young people in various roles for the last 10 years. I love my job and I love helping young people to make personal discoveries. I call them ‘Eureka’ moments, when someone finally gets something, it just clicks! Doing that in a school environment is not always easy as people learn at different speeds in different ways with different strengths.

Whether it be through Tutoring or a Science Party the opportunity to get a child excited about Science is one of my favourite things.