Ben Scott
@bcscott36.bsky.social
Chemistry and biology teacher. Digital lead. PedTech not EdTech. Hockey player. I own too many animal ties.
Educational interests: Johnstone's triangle, game-based learning/gamification, introverts, STEAM, AR
Educational interests: Johnstone's triangle, game-based learning/gamification, introverts, STEAM, AR
October 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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A sperm whale surfacing with a giant squid in its mouth.
I love seeing things like this. Reminds me of the raw and beautiful savagery of nature.
I love seeing things like this. Reminds me of the raw and beautiful savagery of nature.
September 17, 2025 at 9:16 AM
A sperm whale surfacing with a giant squid in its mouth.
I love seeing things like this. Reminds me of the raw and beautiful savagery of nature.
I love seeing things like this. Reminds me of the raw and beautiful savagery of nature.
Brilliant resources!
My annual reminder that sciencedoctor.school.blog is there to help with your back to school planning.
Over 500 freely downloadable worksheets, booklets and resources across KS3 science to KS5 physics.
Worth sharing with new teachers/colleagues?
Over 500 freely downloadable worksheets, booklets and resources across KS3 science to KS5 physics.
Worth sharing with new teachers/colleagues?
Science Doctor
Secondary school physics worksheets & science teaching resources
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August 31, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Brilliant resources!
Amazing! One for #ChatChemistry
August 19, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Amazing! One for #ChatChemistry
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🎉 Steplab Summer Reads #5
Win "Ausubel’s Meaningful Learning in Action" by Sarah Cottingham!
Our Research Lead & ex-teacher shares how meaningful learning builds deep, lasting knowledge.
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Win "Ausubel’s Meaningful Learning in Action" by Sarah Cottingham!
Our Research Lead & ex-teacher shares how meaningful learning builds deep, lasting knowledge.
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August 11, 2025 at 8:06 AM
🎉 Steplab Summer Reads #5
Win "Ausubel’s Meaningful Learning in Action" by Sarah Cottingham!
Our Research Lead & ex-teacher shares how meaningful learning builds deep, lasting knowledge.
✅ Follow
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🏆 Winner Fri!
Win "Ausubel’s Meaningful Learning in Action" by Sarah Cottingham!
Our Research Lead & ex-teacher shares how meaningful learning builds deep, lasting knowledge.
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For over 700 demonstrations of Physics concepts, sorted by topic, visit my youtube channel 😊
#PhysicsEd
#iTeachPhysics
#Science 🧪
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#PhysicsEd
#iTeachPhysics
#Science 🧪
www.youtube.com/channel/UC4y...
Hookean Physics
The aim of this channel is to promote Physics teaching tips and provide stimulating clips for use in class.
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August 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
For over 700 demonstrations of Physics concepts, sorted by topic, visit my youtube channel 😊
#PhysicsEd
#iTeachPhysics
#Science 🧪
www.youtube.com/channel/UC4y...
#PhysicsEd
#iTeachPhysics
#Science 🧪
www.youtube.com/channel/UC4y...
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July 26, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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ChemDraw turned 40 this week! 🎉
I worked with Revvity Signals to put together this graphic showing how the chemical drawing program has developed from basic beginnings to the integration of features to predict spectra and highlight structural features
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#ChemSky
I worked with Revvity Signals to put together this graphic showing how the chemical drawing program has developed from basic beginnings to the integration of features to predict spectra and highlight structural features
wp.me/s4aPLT-chemd...
#ChemSky
July 18, 2025 at 8:03 AM
ChemDraw turned 40 this week! 🎉
I worked with Revvity Signals to put together this graphic showing how the chemical drawing program has developed from basic beginnings to the integration of features to predict spectra and highlight structural features
wp.me/s4aPLT-chemd...
#ChemSky
I worked with Revvity Signals to put together this graphic showing how the chemical drawing program has developed from basic beginnings to the integration of features to predict spectra and highlight structural features
wp.me/s4aPLT-chemd...
#ChemSky
Any keen chemistry teachers about to support this #ChatChemisty #ChatBiology
Everything would be awesome if we could build the Catz periodic spiral in LEGO! A design has been created & needs 10k votes before LEGO will consider it so let's get voting at ideas.lego.com/proje.... Learn about the original: caths.cam.ac.uk/abou... @chemlibcam.bsky.social @chemistryworld.com
Periodic Tower of Elements | LEGO® Ideas
"Unleash Your Creativity: Craft the Universe’s Building Blocks with the 3D Periodic Tower of Elements! Dive into a world where chemistry, physics, and architect…
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July 18, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Any keen chemistry teachers about to support this #ChatChemisty #ChatBiology
What an amazingly insightful post! There are some great links to A-Level biology here @chatbiology.bsky.social @mrsjmasters.bsky.social @cmooreanderson.bsky.social @stemybanda.bsky.social
Since there is talk about bringing back ASBESTOS (this is somehow true), I thought it would be useful to describe just some what happens to you when you breath this stuff into your lungs.
In short, it’s terrible.
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In short, it’s terrible.
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June 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
What an amazingly insightful post! There are some great links to A-Level biology here @chatbiology.bsky.social @mrsjmasters.bsky.social @cmooreanderson.bsky.social @stemybanda.bsky.social
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A primary headteacher recently got in touch: what are schools doing about AI in reports? Allowing it? Banning it?
Here's what we found out...
🤷♀️ Over half of teachers said their school has no policy
✅ 33% say AI use is explicitly allowed
🚫 5% of schools have banned it
Here's what we found out...
🤷♀️ Over half of teachers said their school has no policy
✅ 33% say AI use is explicitly allowed
🚫 5% of schools have banned it
June 20, 2025 at 6:14 AM
A primary headteacher recently got in touch: what are schools doing about AI in reports? Allowing it? Banning it?
Here's what we found out...
🤷♀️ Over half of teachers said their school has no policy
✅ 33% say AI use is explicitly allowed
🚫 5% of schools have banned it
Here's what we found out...
🤷♀️ Over half of teachers said their school has no policy
✅ 33% say AI use is explicitly allowed
🚫 5% of schools have banned it
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✈️ Evidence-Informed Wisdom is here!! ✈️
RT for a chance to be the first to read it.
Today we received our advance copies.
It’s a serious book written in a funny way. It’s my favourite thing I’ve ever done.
Will pick someone at random on Sunday night and post them a copy!
RT for a chance to be the first to read it.
Today we received our advance copies.
It’s a serious book written in a funny way. It’s my favourite thing I’ve ever done.
Will pick someone at random on Sunday night and post them a copy!
June 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
✈️ Evidence-Informed Wisdom is here!! ✈️
RT for a chance to be the first to read it.
Today we received our advance copies.
It’s a serious book written in a funny way. It’s my favourite thing I’ve ever done.
Will pick someone at random on Sunday night and post them a copy!
RT for a chance to be the first to read it.
Today we received our advance copies.
It’s a serious book written in a funny way. It’s my favourite thing I’ve ever done.
Will pick someone at random on Sunday night and post them a copy!
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🚨BOOK GIVEAWAY🚨
I'm excited to be doing a giveaway for my Amazon chart-topping new book, Maximising Tutor Time!
Covering 8 areas and dozens of strategies to improve tutor time, it's got something for everyone!
Just RT and follow to enter!
Draw 31/05
I'm excited to be doing a giveaway for my Amazon chart-topping new book, Maximising Tutor Time!
Covering 8 areas and dozens of strategies to improve tutor time, it's got something for everyone!
Just RT and follow to enter!
Draw 31/05
May 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
🚨BOOK GIVEAWAY🚨
I'm excited to be doing a giveaway for my Amazon chart-topping new book, Maximising Tutor Time!
Covering 8 areas and dozens of strategies to improve tutor time, it's got something for everyone!
Just RT and follow to enter!
Draw 31/05
I'm excited to be doing a giveaway for my Amazon chart-topping new book, Maximising Tutor Time!
Covering 8 areas and dozens of strategies to improve tutor time, it's got something for everyone!
Just RT and follow to enter!
Draw 31/05
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Dorothy Hodgkin was born #OTD in 1910. She won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work using X-ray crystallography to determine complex chemical structures 🏅
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#ChemSky 🧪
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#ChemSky 🧪
May 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Dorothy Hodgkin was born #OTD in 1910. She won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work using X-ray crystallography to determine complex chemical structures 🏅
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#ChemSky 🧪
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#ChemSky 🧪
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And here's the final installment of the #NationalMammalWeek videos - an overlap of zoology and linguistics this time.
Big thank you to @oxfordconted.bsky.social @morethanadodo.bsky.social and @bemoretigerlily.com for making it all come to life.
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Big thank you to @oxfordconted.bsky.social @morethanadodo.bsky.social and @bemoretigerlily.com for making it all come to life.
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April 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
And here's the final installment of the #NationalMammalWeek videos - an overlap of zoology and linguistics this time.
Big thank you to @oxfordconted.bsky.social @morethanadodo.bsky.social and @bemoretigerlily.com for making it all come to life.
🧪🌏🦊🔴🇵🇱🇬🇧
Big thank you to @oxfordconted.bsky.social @morethanadodo.bsky.social and @bemoretigerlily.com for making it all come to life.
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Great article!
A1. I have quite a few analogue games in the classroom. Most for learning, some purely for fun.
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#ChatBiology
#LTHEChat
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#ChatBiology
#LTHEChat
Bored Gamers?!
HAPPY NEW YEAR! So, it is the first of January and we have just returned home from various festive family visits. I wonder how many of you, like us, at some stage heard the dreaded requ…
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February 20, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Great article!
Our pupils loved @jimalkhalili.bsky.social talk on time travel yesterday at GCSE live. We love the simplicity in which you explained some tricky concept!
Have you ever seen Beyond the infinite two minutes? It is one the most original time travelling concepts I've ever seen!
Have you ever seen Beyond the infinite two minutes? It is one the most original time travelling concepts I've ever seen!
February 8, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Our pupils loved @jimalkhalili.bsky.social talk on time travel yesterday at GCSE live. We love the simplicity in which you explained some tricky concept!
Have you ever seen Beyond the infinite two minutes? It is one the most original time travelling concepts I've ever seen!
Have you ever seen Beyond the infinite two minutes? It is one the most original time travelling concepts I've ever seen!
I frequently share this study with my pupils.
The book Inner Drive made '99 studies that every teacher needs to know' is great.
The book Inner Drive made '99 studies that every teacher needs to know' is great.
🎧🔇 Did you know...?
A study showed that students who revised in quiet environments performed over 60% better in an exam than their peers who revised listening to music that had lyrics?
Find out more about listening to music whilst studying here: www.innerdrive.co.uk/blog/music-w...
A study showed that students who revised in quiet environments performed over 60% better in an exam than their peers who revised listening to music that had lyrics?
Find out more about listening to music whilst studying here: www.innerdrive.co.uk/blog/music-w...
January 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I frequently share this study with my pupils.
The book Inner Drive made '99 studies that every teacher needs to know' is great.
The book Inner Drive made '99 studies that every teacher needs to know' is great.
Another brilliant piece by Becky! Some excellent food for thought, even before it considers AI use for teachers.
I gave this talk on Artisan Teaching and AI over 4 months ago at #researchED in London. It doesn't feel too out-of-date, despite how fast the world of technology is moving at the moment! rebeccaallen.co.uk/2025/01/07/g...
January 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Another brilliant piece by Becky! Some excellent food for thought, even before it considers AI use for teachers.
Really interesting article! I'm sure chemistry and biology teachers will enjoy #ChatBiology #ChatChemistry
If you're interested in energy/climate you've probably heard the nugget that "kerosene/crude oil helped save the whales", by reducing demand for whale oil in lanterns.
I've even trotted it out myself🤦♂️
But it turns out it's NOT true.
Here's what actually happened edconway.substack.com/p/no-kerosen...
I've even trotted it out myself🤦♂️
But it turns out it's NOT true.
Here's what actually happened edconway.substack.com/p/no-kerosen...
No, Kerosene did NOT save the Sperm Whale
How we carried on exploiting sperm whales long after the conventional wisdom said we'd stopped. Forgotten Material #1
edconway.substack.com
December 30, 2024 at 8:28 AM
Really interesting article! I'm sure chemistry and biology teachers will enjoy #ChatBiology #ChatChemistry
Now to find the alien in my freezer...
December 27, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Now to find the alien in my freezer...
Christmas eve trip to the zoo turned out to be great.
You can take the science teacher out of the classroom but.....
You can take the science teacher out of the classroom but.....
December 24, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Christmas eve trip to the zoo turned out to be great.
You can take the science teacher out of the classroom but.....
You can take the science teacher out of the classroom but.....
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Off to University of Warwick today to give a history department seminar talk on ‘Reflections on the history of AI’, trains being kind.
If there’s interest I can post the main points here…
If there’s interest I can post the main points here…
November 27, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Off to University of Warwick today to give a history department seminar talk on ‘Reflections on the history of AI’, trains being kind.
If there’s interest I can post the main points here…
If there’s interest I can post the main points here…
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The problem with a lot of ocean "exploitation" is that it's like mining a human for calcium. Yes, a human body contains ~1kg of calcium, and you could take it out, but it's already *doing* quite a lot of useful things, and the human has far more potential to help you if you leave the calcium alone.
November 25, 2024 at 8:03 PM
The problem with a lot of ocean "exploitation" is that it's like mining a human for calcium. Yes, a human body contains ~1kg of calcium, and you could take it out, but it's already *doing* quite a lot of useful things, and the human has far more potential to help you if you leave the calcium alone.
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This is good news... www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪🩺🛟 sociology
What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before
Study is based on 20,860 sketches drawn by children over 5 decades
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November 8, 2024 at 10:18 PM
This is good news... www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪🩺🛟 sociology