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It was a real pleasure to see Ms Booth in action with a Year 7 class using fire from a Ruben’s tube and some nostalgic music in a fun and hugely enjoyed science lesson. A...
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It was a real pleasure to see Ms Booth in action with a Year 7 class using fire from a Ruben’s tube and some nostalgic music in a fun and hugely enjoyed science lesson. A...
Posted by Suresh Varsani
On Friday morning last week it was inspiring to visit a number of Year 7, 9 and Sixth Form science lessons at the start of the day. Routines for learning were well embedded,...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It was a real pleasure to see Ms Booth in action with a Year 7 class using fire from a Ruben’s tube and some nostalgic music in a fun and hugely enjoyed science lesson.
A Rubens’ tube, also known as a standing wave flame tube, or simply flame tube, is an antique physics apparatus for demonstrating acoustic standing waves in a tube. Invented by German physicist Heinrich Rubens in 1905, it graphically shows the relationship between sound waves and sound pressure, as a primitive oscilloscope. Today, it is used only occasionally, typically as a demonstration in physics lessons like Ms Booth’s.
The Year 7 class enjoyed watching the flames dance to theme tunes such as Harry Potter and Star Wars. I was very surprised when the Year 7 students even recognised correctly one of the theme tunes from a film I expected only the teachers and parents to know – Back to the Future!
Well done Ms Booth and our budding Year 7 students!
As part of our annual Science Week at Bushey Meads School it was superb to see and hear from some of our top student scientists who brilliantly led our high profile Main School...
Rat Dissection It was truly enriching to witness Year 13 students, Max and Ishaan, take the initiative to train for a rat dissection and then independently deliver the exciting...