I am both looking forward to going ‘back to school’ tomorrow and feeling a bit uncertain of how it will look long term. My Looms are ready, my posts on Google Classroom have been scheduled (mostly) and Education Perfect is one of many online resources that schools have been given access to. There shouldn’t be…
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Isolation day 16: Pokémon X&Y Retrospective
The generations of Pokémon which I look back at most fondly are the Gold, Silver and Crystal Generation (Generation 2) which were the first Pokémon games I played, the Diamond, Pearl and Platinum Generation (Generation 4) which reignited my interest in the games and the X and Y Generation (Generation 6) because it reinvigorated the…
Isolation day 15: Shop normal
Today I waited in line for over an hour to get into the supermarket. It was my fault, I didn’t take into consideration the fact that tomorrow is Easter Friday, a day that the supermarkets would normally be closed, and that payments for people and families on the different social services benefits get paid overnight…
Isolation day 13: Memes
I don’t have a topic to talk about today so I thought I’d just make a post sharing some fun science memes that I have used while teaching, broken down by subject. Chemistry Biology Physics I will be updating this post if I find more memes.
Isolation day 12: Patterns of inheritance
This post follows on from a previous post, Isolation day 3: School Holidays, so I recommend reading that post if you are unfamiliar with how proteins are sequenced and produced in cells. In that post I introduced the terms gene, allele, dominant and recessive and how this relates to the expression traits in an organism….
Isolation day 9: Review of Pokémon Sword
Nostalgia is a powerful force, but because Pokémon has been around for so long there are some expectations that loyal followers of the franchise, such as myself, have. While this game is undeniably Pokémon, it falls short of what it could have been. ★★★✩✩ Now because this review has been written several months after the…
Isolation day 7: Travel
Looking at the stats of the coronavirus cases in New Zealand, it shows some interesting trends. The trend that I will be focusing on today is to do with one of the Kiwi traditions: an OE. While New Zealand is a country known for many things, such as rugby, Lord of the Rings, and the…
Isolation day 5: Finished something
This was a big papercraft. 40cm tall and requiring 26 pages of printing. It was one of the trickier ones I have built too as all of the mane spikes need to converge at the back of the head so I had to rely on the build video to guide me during that part of…
Day one of Isolation
Today at midnight New Zealand went into Level 4 of the Coronavirus response. This was announced on Monday when the level changed from 2 to 3 with a 48 hour countdown to Level 4. So I thought that this is a good time to brush off the old Blog and put up some articles, recipes…
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