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Project Presentation
Sophie Eccles
Redland Green School, Bristol
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Redland Green School
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Open fully since September 2007.
Pupils in years 7, 8 and 12.
Bristol’s new flagship school.
11-16 school.
The North Bristol Post 16 Centre.
Special Claremont School facility.
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Why I Went to Redland Green
• To be extra help in science lessons.
• To start up and run a science club.
• To give extra tuition to less able post 16
students.
• To survey post 16 students
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Why I Went to Redland Green
• Use chemistry to inspire and excite pupils.
• Demystify chemistry and university.
• Encourage chemistry at higher education.
• Be a chemistry student role model.
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Why I Went to Redland Green
• Learn and improve
- explaining complex ideas in simple
language.
- dealing with difficult questions and behaviour.
- organising and coordinating large groups and
their activities.
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Science Club
• Held once a week
• Years 7 & 8
• Attendance grew and varied between 12-22
• Worked with physics UAS student, the Head of
Science and other science staff
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Set up and Materials
For each session we
- researched a topic, good demonstrations and
experiments that the pupils could do.
- produced a power-point presentation.
- produced a handout.
- did a risk assessment.
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Science Club – Dry Ice
Demonstrations
• Expanding rubber glove
• Screeching under pressure
• Colour changes with pH variation
Pupil Activity
• Dry ice in shallow or deep, cold
or hot water and adding washing up liquid
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Fireworks and Flame Tests
Demonstrations
• How to do the experiment (safely)
• Which compounds produced which colours
Pupils Activity
• ‘Guess the compound’ from the flame test
colour.
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Making Hand warmers
-Investigating Exothermic Reactions
• Given their task.
• Work out which masses of CaCl2 they would
test.
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Making Hand warmers
-Investigating Exothermic Reactions
• Measured temperature rise of the water and
plotted a graph with their results.
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Making Hand warmers
-Investigating Exothermic Reactions
• Read off ideal mass from the graph.
• Make the heat packs.
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Heat Energy and Combustion
Demonstrations
• Candle under beaker.
• Chip pan fire.
Discussion of the fire triangle
Demonstrations
• Methanol rockets
• Non-burning £5 notes
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Heat Energy and Combustion
Discussion
• Explosive hydrogen – Hindenburg Disaster
Experiment
• Hydrogen squeaky pop
• Collection of gas under water
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Acknowledgements
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Tim Harrison
Dr Smith
All the staff at RGS
Fellow UAS students
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