Chemistry is soooo cool! Can I have a Bunsen Burner?

[Milliways]

....says DS after first Yr7 lesson where they can set light to things

How long wil.l this last then?

probably right up to the point that he realises that you don't actually spend every lesson setting fire to things

And then he may realise that scince allows him to understand why things fall, and why grass in green, and the sky in blue, and why you get hot when you exercise, and why you look a bit like your mum and your dad.

And at that point he will be hooked.

And then he can go on to understand that all of life only exsist because of miniscule shifts in clouds of atoms, and that life in complexity and simplicity hand in hand.

and then , lucky boy, he will be a scientist and know that the questions never end.

Give him a hug, he is on the right road

Thanks MB! (He already had the hug!). Fancies himself as a Runescape or other Computer game designer, but is VERY hooked on Holby, casualty etc, so....you never know

BTW, "Why is it hottest at tip of white bit in flame?". I can't remember!

It is point at which there is greatest combustion of the gas, the most effecicient mix of gas and oxygen.

When he does flame tests (and he will, god we are so predictable in y7) you can casualy say, 'Yes, the colours are produced when excited electrons drop back down into their original electron orbits'......at which point dd says 'Mum I didn't want to know that'

A magic time for him, and you!

bunsen burner infor

Thanks! I can sound like the brainy scientific mummy who DIDN'T drop chemistry like a brick at the end of Yr9 . (Did get physics A level though).

Yr7 is great. I am relearning everything, and hearing my first ever Latin!. DD (Yr11) Thinks he is just weird as even though predicted 3 A's for the sciences, she would have dropped them (except Biology) if given the choice.

You teachers deserve a pay-rise.

had a fab day today

It is a bit loke motherhood, either great or shit, nothing much in between