The SQA Biology exams took place yesterday. I managed to get my hands on a complete set of papers in the afternoon so I was able to have a look at them last night. Here are a few thoughts.
Standard Grade General Level.
I thought this was quite a hard paper. Both the kidney and the heart were covered [...]
This week I attended a Glow Key Contacts meeting in Edinburgh. There are around four Key Contacts meetings held every year. Key contacts are the representatives nominated by each council. These meetings are designed so that authorities can get together, share and learn from each others experiences. Out of Scotland’s 32 authorities, 21 have now signed [...]
I haven’t really written much in the last wee while. This is largely due to the projects I have been working on. I don’t really think that White Board installations, PC refreshes/upgrades and letter drafting etc are really that interesting to those not directly involved, so I have kept quiet. However the next few weeks [...]
It has been a while, so here is another factoid.
When you wake up in the morning, you are on average 2cm taller than when you went to bed. I know this because when I get into my car in the morning I always have to adjust the rear view mirror. Likewise, when I get back [...]
I read this article in the Edinburgh Evening News this morning:
“A NEW sign language designed to revolutionise the way science is taught to deaf children in schools has been developed in Edinburgh.
Teachers and language specialists have collated a glossary of more than 250 signs, which can be accessed over the internet.Under the £25,000 move, complex [...]
CONCLUSION:
‘A ripe tomato produces enough Ethylene to stimulate the ripening process in another 48 fruits’
T.Watson- Unit 0A04, Plant Physiology, Semester 4, 1997.
A couple of weeks ago, I found myself talking about the process of fruit ripening to my colleagues during a coffee break (I am not sure how I managed to get onto the topic, [...]
During the last two weeks, Humbie Primary School have been trialling a Genee Visualiser. This afternoon, I went out to Ross High School in Tranent. The visualiser was scheduled to be trialled by the Science and CDT Departments at the School. You can find out more about it on my recent post here.
Whilst the Visualiser was at Humbie, we [...]
Today I spent the afternoon at Humbie Primary School. Humbie is a small School situated about 15 miles outside Haddington in East Lothian. Following a meeting on Tuesday with a Representative from Genee, the staff at the school will be trialling a relatively new form of hardware called a ‘Visualiser’.
Visualisers are basically very high powered digital/video cameras that [...]
As you may be aware, in addition to my teaching job, for the last nine years I have a (seasonal) weekend job where I assist the managing of my Rugby Club’s bar (I call it a job because it is, but I enjoy the social aspect of it so much that I would class is as a hobby [...]
Today I attended an Evening for Teachers of Biology at the Seabird Centre at North Berwick in East Lothian. The focus of the evening was to highlight the ongoing work that is being done there and the opportunities that are now available for Staff and Pupils.
Islands, birds, seals and rock-pools are all there in the ‘wild’ and [...]
