Professional learning, programmes and events

The aim of this course is to familiarise you with SSERC’s guidance on the safe use of electrical equipment in the science classroom. This guidance covers the use of low, high and extra high tension power supplies, batteries, Van de Graaff generators and activities using various components. It is not a course about PAT inspections, wiring or repairs.

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Do your students have access to Apple or Android devices, netbooks or Chromebooks?

There are apps out there that allow you to do practical physics.

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The aim of this course is to familiarise you with SSERC’s guidance on optical radiation. This guidance covers the use of ray boxes, lasers, discharge tubes, UV lamps and more.

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The aim of this course is to familiarise you with SSERC’s guidance on physics safety. This guidance covers bell jars and vaccum pumps, air weapons, soldering, pressure systems and the gas laws.

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This self-study course has wide appeal to all physics teachers, it could be useful from BGE to AH and would be ideal for use in STEM clubs.

Aim

The aim of this course is to introduce you to a number of low-cost, practical activities that allow you to demonstrate the reception of voice or data live from both Low Earth Orbit (including GPS satellites) and Geostationary satellites.

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The free, open-source Tracker software package, written by Doug Brown of Cabrillo College, has been a favourite of ours at SSERC for over a decade. Tracker is many-faceted, but at its core is the ability to analyse video and still images. Students working at home could perform meaningful practical work using the application. Recently, it has become possible to run Tracker in a browser.

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