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Science Teacher A’level Chemistry (OCR) GCSE Chemistry and Combined Science (AQA)

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A spooky #fridayfive
1. Spooky—Dusty Springfield
2. Me and the Devil—Soap&Skin
3. Wolf—First Aid Kit
4. The Ghost Inside—Broken Bells
5. Season of the Witch—Lana del Ray

31.10.2025 17:17 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

A late and weepy #fridayfive (although if I could break rules it would 1-5 Leonard Cohen)
1. Hey that’s no way to say goodbye—Leonard Cohen
2. Comfortably Numb—Pink Floyd
3. Troy—Sinead O’Connor
4. Me myself I—Joan Armatrading
5. Lilac Wine—Nina Simone

24.10.2025 21:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#fridayfive enjoying being lost
1. Breathe Me—Sia
2. Wish you were here—Pink Floyd
3. How to completely disappear—Radiohead
4. Losing my mind—REM
5. Strange little girl—The Strangles

17.10.2025 18:01 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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OMG. #fridayfive I genuinely I can’t believe I forgot one of my faves 😭 Please can I have 6. Louise—The Human League. Here is evidence of me singing along with them in Llangollen

12.09.2025 18:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

#fridayfive characters
1. The Jeweller — This Mortal Coil
2. Just Call Me Joe — Sinead O’Connor
3. Wuthering Heights — Kate Bush
4. Sweet Caroline — Neil Diamond
5. My Perfect Cousin— The Undertones

12.09.2025 17:40 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Ooh I’ve been missing this! Starts with #fridayfive
1. Feel Good—Gorillaz
2. From the Start—Laufrey
3. Fireststarter—Prodigy
4. Rip it up—Orange Juice
5. Beginnigs—Astrud Gilberto

05.09.2025 18:25 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
A model of the human information processing stream from the environment through attention and working memory to long-term memory, with annotations of teaching activities that can be done to mitigate against capacity and processing limitations at each stage

A model of the human information processing stream from the environment through attention and working memory to long-term memory, with annotations of teaching activities that can be done to mitigate against capacity and processing limitations at each stage

📣 NEW BLOG 📣

Teaching the limited capacity brain. A visual guide and model

hobbolog.wordpress.com/2025/07/09/t...

09.07.2025 13:33 — 👍 21    🔁 13    💬 8    📌 2

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12.07.2025 17:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#FridayFive goodbye…missing you already
1. So Long Marianne—Leonard Cohen
2. Farewell to Stomness—Peter Maxwell Davies
3. So Long, Frank Lloyd Write—Simon & Garfunkel
4. Porcelain—Moby
5. Bye Bye Bad Man—Stone Roses

11.07.2025 16:39 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I liked this one too (perhaps also because I got it 2 under! Yes, am finally getting the hang of these and have become slightly addicted 😂)

01.07.2025 16:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Going to see them next weekend! Can’t wait 😊

27.06.2025 19:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

#fridayfive actually harder than I thought to chose!
1. Happiness—Goldfrapp
2. Don’t you want me—Human League
3. Pynk—Janelle Monae
4. Back on 74—Jungle
5. See you again—Tyler the Creator

27.06.2025 18:00 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

#fridayfive
Tainted Love—Soft Cell
2. Fight the Power—Public Enemy
3. Dirty Harry—Gorillaz
4. Not Fair—Lily Allen
5. Boss Bitch—Dojo Cat

06.06.2025 16:16 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Minute Cryptic Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

Minute Cryptic - 6 June 2025
"Cancel culture's even found here!" (4)
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I scored: 2 under par
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After weeks of trying, I’m wondering if I’m finally getting the hang of these! Actually got *under par* 2 days in a row😂

06.06.2025 05:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Finally got one!

05.06.2025 23:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Minute Cryptic Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

OMG Minute Cryptic - 5 June 2025
"Pair falling apart over kiss? They made Up!" (5)
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I scored: 2 under par
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05.06.2025 23:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Only occasionally, so will start. Best score so far today 1 over par 😂

31.05.2025 07:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m rubbish at these but keep practicing!

31.05.2025 06:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

#fridayfive girls fireside singalong
1. Girls just wanna have fun—Cydi Lauder
2. Wuthering Heights—Kate Bush
3. Heart of Glass—Blondie
4. Jolene—Dolly Parton
5. You’re so Vain—Carly Simon

23.05.2025 16:47 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Love this App! Always enjoyed birdwatching but used to be rubbish at bird calls 😀 and am now learning so much.

11.05.2025 09:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Love 5. great choice

09.05.2025 20:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Secretly I will miss them so don’t like goodbyes #frudayfive
1. There she goes —The La’s
2. I will survive — Gloria Gaynor
3. Somebody that I used to know—Goyte
4. Everybody’s changing—Keane
5. Na Na Hey Hey Kiss him goodbye—Bananaram

09.05.2025 19:48 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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What a lovely weekend. #researchEd Warrington and then our girls smashed their #DofE practice walk.

27.04.2025 14:27 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Teaching without PowerPoint: the pros of drawing diagrams with students Problems arise in lessons due to transient information, which occurs when information appears and then disappears (Wong et al. 2012). This is common with the presentation of slide decks. A crucial image is shown but vanishes when the teacher moves to the next slide. This puts pressure on the student to retain all the aspects in mind while connecting them to the information on the next slide.

New Post:

▸Teaching without PowerPoint: the pros of drawing diagrams with students◂

#SciTeachUK #iTeachBio

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25.04.2025 16:00 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 3
Headphones on #Fridayfive Playlist · lecrascall · 69 items

Thought a Spotify list might be in order so we can all listen with our…
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25.04.2025 18:25 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Almost went with 3. All of This Mortal Coil sounds great on headphones imho 🙂

25.04.2025 17:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I hope you refused! Student had “fat fingers” today on an Mr calc so if they had not shown working would have got zero on a longer quant chem question…

25.04.2025 17:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My best on headphones…for different reasons #fridayfive
1. Mandika—Sinead O’Connor
2. Me myself I—Joan Armatrading
3. The Sensual World—Kate Bush
4. A&E—Goldfrapp
5. Tarantual—This Mortal Coil

25.04.2025 15:55 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

2 and 5 love. Makes up for 4

25.04.2025 15:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We all know that at least some—when exam nerves kick in— will get it wrong and so lose all marks and that is so sad. Incorrect s.f is a classic for e.g.

22.04.2025 20:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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