It has been a while so I thought I would post another factoid. My good friend Phil is a trainee solicitor for Biggart-Baillie. During part of his ICT training he and his colleagues were given this Blockbuster style PowerPoint on IT Acronyms.
Can you name them all?
I thought I did quite well with only a couple [...]
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 [...]
