Julia Buckingham is chair of SCORE, a collaboration of science organisations made up of the Association for Science Education, the Institute of Physics, the Royal Society, the Royal Society of ...

Laboratories are an inherent part of technology qualifications, as practical experiments are essential for students to acquire the competencies and skills that they will need during their future ...

THIS is a revised and enlarged version of the author's Laboratory Manual published in 1913. In addition to some fifteen new experiments, introductory paragraphs have been prefixed to each experiment ...

This paper describes an experiment which is a practical realization of Buffon's needle-throwing problem. The experiment can be looked on as a Monte Carlo method of determining π. As with all Monte ...

THIS extremely useful and carefully prepared little book is intended to form the basis of the practical teaching of physics for schoolboys. It describes the way of performing fifty-eight experiments ...

As a mature student with the Open University, Dan Roach rekindles his love of practical experiment Real deal Dan Roach (right) and his lab partner Leeaaron Jones feeling like proper scientists on the ...

Lecturer in Science Education, Sussex School of Education and Social Work, University of Sussex Science evokes images of Bunsen burners, coloured liquids, vapours rising from flasks, white coats and ...