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? 4 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

12 th October 2010 Triple Science Learning Visit

13 th October 2010 Chemical Magic – Year 8 / 9 lecture

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

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

17 th November 2010 APP – the teachers toolkit

1 st December 2010 Fantastic Plastic – Year 10 lecture

19 th January 2011 Next Twilight session

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

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

9 th February 2011 The new GCSEs – developing resources

Saturday 5 th March 2011 Mini- conference

The LSN community

The triple Wiki

The triple Wiki

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