Home » Articles posted by martyn (Page 11)

Author Archives: martyn

Tombstone bandit finds me!

PICT0054, originally uploaded by mjovery. I placed this image of a ‘bandit’ online on Flickr! It was taken a couple of years ago at Tombstone, Arizona…..during the Vigilante Days Festival. The other day ‘Terco Paco’ (not his real name) did a search on Flickr and found his picture on my gallery! He then thanked me […]

Continue Reading →

Revision activities (GCSE:Physics)

 The first FIVE activities are now o­nline for students Physics Topics  (Focus o­n : Heat Transfer and Renewable Energy) Heat Transfer (Cloze Test)www.planetscience.org/revisiontime/heattransfer.htm Heat Transfer (Crossword) www.planetscience.org/revisiontime/heattransferxword.htm Heat Transfer ( The Vacuum Flask: Multiple Choice) http://www.planetscience.org/revisiontime/vacuumflask.htm Renewable Energy (Cloze) www.planetscience.org/revisiontime/renewables1.htm Electromagnetic Waves (Drag and Drop) www.planetscience.org/revisiontime/emwaves.htm

Continue Reading →

Shuttle Disasters: The importance of teamwork…

The Space Shuttle Columbia and Space Shuttle Challenger disasters highlighted the dangers of NASA management ignoring the concerns of engineers.  Not once, but twice.  I was almost like ‘us and them’  with NASA management and the engineers.  Find out more, using the latest interactive activity produced for our Materials Module http://www.planetscience.org/revisiontime/safetyanddesign.htm

Continue Reading →