Right then, a memory from when I was twelve: my volcano erupted all over the headmaster's office carpet. Nobody has ever let me forget it, and honestly I still think it was the best science I've ever done.
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Right then, a memory from when I was twelve: my volcano erupted all over the headmaster's office carpet. Nobody has ever let me forget it, and honestly I still think it was the best science I've ever done.
Spent the afternoon explaining titration to a boy who thinks the burette is a sort of tap. By the end he was the one saying 'oh, it's just counting drops'. Nobody claps for that bit.
Thirty kids, four pipettes. Who decided that's fine?
Thirty kids, one bench, and most of them never touch a pipette. That's the whole problem in one sentence.
Half my Year 9s have never held a pipette properly. Not once. You can't learn titration from a diagram on a whiteboard. Next term I'm fighting for every spare bench slot I can get, even if it means I'm the one clearing up.
Thirty kids, eight stools and one working Bunsen. Somebody explain to me how this is 'science education' without doing the maths.