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 haven’t posted a factoid for a while so I thought I would share this. At the weekend I decided to take a trip to Marks and Spencer. I wasn’t really looking for anything in particular- just browsing when I stumbled across this tie…..
…..Well, I mean it would have been wrong not too
However, [...]
This isn’t really a factoid, but it is fact- I love 80s music!
Anyone who knows me well or who has travelled in my car will verify that! I like all types of music ranging from Debussy through to synthesised dance music. However, I have a particular passion for music from the 80’s and the guitars.
Over the [...]
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, [...]
A number of the SQA Biology courses include the anatomy of the respiratory system. If possible during these topics, we will perform a dissection on a set of animal lungs. This dissection is done as a demonstration.
Katy Tully is a Teacher of Biology and Science. She joined our department in August of this year. Today [...]
This week I have been finishing The Biosphere topic with my third year Standard Grade class. The Biosphere topic is the first topic that the pupils will study over the two-year course (there are eight topics in total). Earlier in the week we had been revising for the end of topic test. As part of [...]
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I have already posted a Factoid this week, but I felt this one was very much worth sharing. It is a great one to try with a class.
As Teachers, we have to be very aware of the different ways pupils learn. In [...]
I find Science just fascinating. But, every now and then, I just get confused. This particular factoid has always baffled me. This morning I decided that it was about time I gave my silver jewellery a polish. There are a number of adequate tarnish removers on the market these days, but I have always chosen [...]
It has been a while since I have posted a factoid. This particular one was introduced to me by one of my technicians, Sheila Robb. I am a bit of a sucker when it comes to brain games so as I sat with Sheila at break time she told me what to do, and it [...]
Here in East Lothian, we are on the count down to the end of term. Last year we decided to hold an end of term quiz. As there isn’t time to hold the event as a group we decided to give out copies of the CD to participating teams (five pounds per team). The idea [...]
