This podcast describes how to recreate a thermonuclear blast in the classroom, and teach some valuable atmospheric physics
This is a video of students performing the experiment.
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
Monday, 27 November 2017
Nuclear Fusion for Children
A simple hand game make Nuclear Fusion fun in the classroom.
Two protons hitting and bouncing off each other
HR diagram for High School
The building of a 3D edible HR diagram where the stars a cakes hung on string, and coloured with icing is described.
Saturday, 25 November 2017
Astrophysics for high school
Get your class to download Celestia
Get them to chase stars and log them in a Hertzsprung Russel diagram
Then do the star dance
Get them to chase stars and log them in a Hertzsprung Russel diagram
Then do the star dance
Friday, 24 November 2017
Year 8 Chocolate rock lesson
Starting with different blocks of chocolate, students grate them to simulate weathering, move the grated chocolate to simulate erosion, carry it to a river bed of Al foil to simulate transport, sprinkle it to simulate deposition, enclose and sit on it to simulate cementing, then bend to simulate geological folding of strata
Quiet Talk on Graphs and Charts
A general talk on the difference between charts and graphs and some of the deep ideas in graphs.
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
Chocolate rocks
Doctor Hill talks about his chocolate geology lessons as he drives from Glenbrook to a supermarket in Penrith
Saturday, 18 November 2017
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