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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:.

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  1. 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?

  2. 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?

  3. Welcome to AGS

  4. Our aims? 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. Introduce yourselves

  8. 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

  9. Dates for your diary

  10. 12th October 2010 Triple Science Learning Visit

  11. 13th October 2010 New Date Chemical Magic – Year 8 / 9 lecture

  12. 20th October 2010 Teaching physics – CPD for non-specialists and experienced teachers alike

  13. 10th November 2010 Community Excellence in Partnerships - Sharing what works!

  14. 17th November 2010 APP – the teachers toolkit

  15. 1st December 2010 New Date Fantastic Plastic – Year 10 lecture

  16. 19th January 2011 Next Twilight session

  17. 26th January 2011 Chemistry (and e-learning) CPD – for non-specialists and experienced teachers of chemistry

  18. 2nd February 2011 The physics of sound – Year 8 / 9 lecture

  19. 9th February 2011 The new GCSEs – developing resources

  20. Saturday 5th March 2011 Conference Mini- conference

  21. The LSN community http://community.triplescience.org.uk/Pages/Default.aspx

  22. The triple Wiki http://triplewiki.wikispaces.com/

  23. The triple Wiki http://triplewiki.wikispaces.com/

  24. GCSE 2011

  25. Before you go Check contact details Sign up for events Hand back the school profile sheets

  26. 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

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