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10B - Part 1: Seneca assignment
Go to Seneca Learning and log in. You will find a new assignment called "End of Quantitative Chemistry".
Part 2: Research task:
NPK Fertilisers
In this lesson, you are going to research NPK fertilisers. You need to produce a single sided summary which will answer all of the following:
What is a chemical fertiliser?
What does NPK mean?
What is the effect of not having enough N, P or K?
How are these fertisers made?
Why are do they have different ratios and give examples of when different ones are used?
Why are they considered dangerous if too much is applied to we soil?
Why are they considered dangerous when stored in barns and warehouses?
Why are they considered a danger to our atmosphere during production?

Finally, all of this was made possible by the famous chemist Fritz Haber. Find out who he was and why his biography is called "Between Genius ad Genocide"?

Britain's dirtiest energy source
With Britain's last remaining coal fired power station finally closed, of the remaining energy resources, which is the most negative for our environment? This story is very relevant to the Physics topic Energy.
Read more on the BBC news website.

Land-Based in the news
Local changes to "use of land" stir up local people. Is it fair that local people can have so much say into how a farmer can use their land? Read more on the Sentinel website.

Finally - a glimpse of the Northern Lights from Stoke-on-Trent. Every time it happens, I miss it. Not the perfect picture but you can see the green on the right that fades to purple in the middle. The green caused by interactions of oxygen with electrons and the purple caused by the interactions of nitrogen with electrons.

Great news to students who struggle to learn formulae. The UK government has extended the Covid support for 3 more years by giving the enhanced formula sheet of GCSE physics. Read the full story here. Does learning the formulae make you a better scientist or just better at learning formulae?

The "Curriculum Health Check" section has gone live on all GCSE science pages now. Please be aware that this is the first time that I have seen them in HTML and am now going through the job of editing them when I find formatting errors. Enjoy, hope to be ready by September.

One of my A-level chemists has recently been accepted into the prestigious school of veterinary science at the university of Liverpool. Congratulations and thanks for the squishy cow, I shall always treasure it!