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Reviewer: johnny pang

Australian light bulb ban review

Sep 7th, 2008

Australian light bulb ban activity promoted lots of discussion and 'why don't we do that here'. Activity was well put together and easy to give to a cover supervisor to complete in my absence

Reviewer: Kelly Susan

australian light bulb

Jul 3rd, 2008

I used this with gcse (AQA) pupils at P.R.U. The kids were very focused and the structure was very clear and easy to follow. They were able to undertake the task and the whole exercise will consolidate their skills for their Objective Tests and helps their understanding of How Science Works.

Nick Jones
Newbridge House P.R.U..
Barrow

Reviewer: Nick Jones

Useful

Jul 2nd, 2008

I used this, along with the light bulb danger lesson with a class of Y8.

The calcualtions seem to produce some funny results - some suggesting that they would save more than is currently spent.

Also - shame on you! No mention of Joseh Swan in the brief history of the light bulb!

The Swan Edison story itself merits an upd8 comparing the two men and their different approaches.

Reviewer: Stephen Brian

Australian light bulb ban

Feb 11th, 2008

I used this activity with a Year 9 science class. It worked well and I felt the students appreciated the relevance to saving money in their own homes.

Reviewer: Helen Skulander

Physics; P1

Oct 1st, 2007

A good independant learning task set to the more able members of my group.

The group fedback that the activity was a little on the easy side, but said they enjoyed the activity.

Reviewer: David Wilkins

Australian Light Bulb Ban

Jun 13th, 2007

Tried this with a lowish ability year 10 group the day before they went on work experience, so timing perhaps not the best. Was certainly useful to get the students to appreciate that we can save money by changing to energy efficient light bulbs, however most didn't finish the activity. I'll certainly use this again with a few minor modifications, like giving them timings for the length of time the bulbs are left on.

Reviewer: Joanne Golding

light bulb activity

May 10th, 2007

I used this resource with an S2 science class. They enjoyed the novelty. Whilst some struggled with the calculations the majority coped well.

Reviewer: marion macdonald

Australian Light Bulb Ban

May 7th, 2007

An excellent resource that I wasable to use with my very bottom set year 10. It fits in perfectly with the Edexcel you're in charge/ producing and measuring electricity topics.

They coped really well with the calculations and the differentiation was excellent. The more able could work out the payback, while theless able could see for themselves the financial impacts.

A brilliant resource!

Reviewer: Sarah Magor

Australian Light bulb ban

Mar 23rd, 2007

Yr 9 set level 4-5 borderline group really liked this one. This tied in with many who had become more aware of environmental issues. Surprisingly many did not know how a normal light bulb worked so use a lamp and dimmer switch with a clear bulb to show the hot wire filament. They could then compare contrast with the energy saver bulb. The calculation grid worked very well with this group though a few had real difficulty with working out how long their bulbs are on for! Solved by giving the weakest a grid with some hours already on. Many surprised by how much you can save compared to the price of a bulb, £1 each in the Pound shop!

Reviewer: w woodburn

Austarlian light bulb ban

Mar 16th, 2007

I used this material is part of the OCR gateway P2 module. The attention grabbing headline about the 800,000 tonne reduction in carbon dioxide emissions stimulated some very interesting discussions.The students found the material very interesting and it sparked a very lively debate. Interestingly not all the students were in favour of the ban.

I used this material together with a demonstarion of the two types of bulb and a Joule meter.

Thank you for producing such an excellent resource I will be now using the material "Poo power or nuclear power" to raise their awareness of nuclear power as an energy source.

Chris Whale
Head of Science
Graveney school

Reviewer: Chris Whale

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Mar 12th, 2007

These resources are the best! For a busy HOD trying to write a scheme of work for the new courses before we teach them they are a blessing.

Reviewer: Anne Francis

light bulbs

Mar 8th, 2007

Excellent resource, ties in well with a demo of both bulb types connected to a joule meter.

My year 9 class top set really got stuck into it without too much help from me, to save photocopying I only copied the the main grid and had the other pages on the computer network.

Led to some interesting discussions on C02, global warming and what we all can personally do.

With other sets I would be less ambitious and get them to complete the calculations with less of the rooms.

Reviewer: jeremy beckett