Task 1:

Take a stick of chewing gum and chew well until you could blow a bubble from it if desired. Now take a piece of chocolate and place it in your mouth and suck it until it dissolves. What do you notice?

What ideas could you teach using this experiment / equipment?

Task 2:

Have a play with the powder provided. Add small amounts of water to the dish – what happens? How do the properties of the powder change?

What ideas could you teach using this experiment / equipment?

Welcome to AGS

Our aims?

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To develop a sharing best practice steering group

Hold meetings to develop targeted CPD,

Hold coursework support meetings

Development of a Wiki to allow teachers to collaborate and share ideas

Development of high quality support and pupil centered resources;

Pilot G&T taster days for local pupils and coordinate a guest lecture program to inspire pupils from the network of schools

Our aims:

To provide support for delivering Triple Science

• for ourselves

• our pupils

To increase the profile of science in our schools and the uptake of pupils into science based courses – in particular Triple Science

Objectives tonight

Find out about more the project, the network, the CPD events and available support

Meet likeminded colleagues

Find out more about changes to the GCSE specifications (2011)

Take away some (new) ideas

Introduce yourselves

Our group

Alcester Grammar School

Alcester High School

St Benedicts Roman Catholic High School

Studley High School

Southam College

Westwood School (Coventry)

Southam College

Bilton School

Stratford High

Ranelagh

Hanham High School

Nick’s School

Stratford High School

St Augustines RC High School Reddich

DinahBarry

Cath Lowe

Higham Lane School

Dates for your diary

12th October 2010

Triple Science Learning Visit

13th October 2010

Chemical Magic – Year 8 / 9 lecture

20th October 2010

Teaching physics – CPD for non-specialists and experienced teachers alike

10th November 2010

CommunityExcellence in Partnerships - Sharing what works!

17th November 2010

APP – the teachers toolkit

1st December 2010

Fantastic Plastic – Year 10 lecture

19th January 2011

Next Twilight session

26th January 2011

Chemistry (and e-learning) CPD – for non-specialists and experienced

teachers of chemistry

2nd February 2011

The physics of sound – Year 8 / 9 lecture

9th February 2011

The new GCSEs – developing resources

Saturday 5th March 2011

Mini- conference

The LSN community

http://community.triplescience.org.uk/Pages/Default.aspx

The triple Wiki

http://triplewiki.wikispaces.com/

The triple Wiki

http://triplewiki.wikispaces.com/

GCSE 2011

Before you go

Check contact details

Sign up for events

Hand back the school profile sheets

Homework

Log onto the LSN Community

Search through the resources and bring a recommendation for next meeting

Log onto the Triple Wiki - challenge – can you add anything to it?

Promote the events in your school

GCSE Astronomy