I really do not understand!!!:(

[Bunnylump]

Thanks, Biscuit. I'll pass this on just in case.

[Cenwulf]

Exactly how did we get from the original posting to a discussion of coloured jelly?

We were talking about the problem with the economy and how the Government was having problems sorting it out.

PuzzleBrain Members for Government - the current mob can't solve this puzzle so give US a go.

Vote for the Puzzlebrains Party - you know it makes sense... eventually.

-but I meant political party.

I'm only coming if there is jelly.

And was probably thinking of the wrong sort of party.

[clvrlad]

so its your fault Cenwulf

[Cenwulf]

Don't blame me for the Bunny heading off on a tangent.
Geometry probably isn't her best subject.

[chazzie]

Don't blame me for the Bunny heading off on a tangent.
Geometry probably isn't her best subject.

Oh I don't know - it's led to a fair amount of laughter and amusement

[Bunnylump]

I was teaching geometry to year 7s yesterday. Although I would personally prefer to be teaching them about jelly.

[chazzie]

I was teaching geometry to year 7s yesterday. Although I would personally prefer to be teaching them about jelly.

Can I join your lessons - sounds fun

[giraffe]

I wonder how many subjects you could validly use jelly as a teaching aid for.

[Bunnylump]

Well, we have used it to make a jelly Grandma's medicine bottle(from George's Marvellous Medicine) on world book day to illustrate a favourite book. Sadly, that was green.

I've just found some wonderful things I could use, sadly no jelly based activities. For example:
Ice cream is placed in a tilted gutter to study flow characteristics, crevasses and glacial landforms.
OR
Students create a custard “acid lake” that melts an ice cream “glacier,” destroying a chocolate cake village.

Mind you, thinking about it, a bowl of jelly with ice cream wafers would be cool to demonstrate plate tectonics.

I'm looking forward to an experiment we have planned at the end of term with the year 10s involving coca cola and mentos...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKoB0MHVBvM

[giraffe]

Liquids, solids and gasses springs to mind, but I'm sure you could do something interesting with elasticity in physics, or shining lights through different colour jelly to act as filters for optics.

[Bunnylump]

I was editing my post (above). Check out the experiment!!!

[chazzie]

Can I join your lessons - sounds fun

I'm signing up right now for your lessons

[Cenwulf]

Brings a whole new meaning to 'food technology'...

[chazzie]

Brings a whole new meaning to 'food technology'...

sorry - hadn't even worked out which subject Bunny was teaching - but sounded much more fun than the lessons I attended

[Bunnylump]

Oh I do all sorts. Not usually actually teaching whole classes (except damned year 7 bottom set maths), but I do run some small groups and have some brilliant teachers who let me "play". Some of the science teachers are fantastic fun. I have been known to be exploding washing up liquid bubbles filled with gas in front of bemused year 7s who were "in detention". Oh, and we made a great volcano using bicarbonate of soda and vinegar in geography, oh, and there's always watching "Blackadder" in history lessons, and designing our own coats of arms (cringe). Yes. Although I have more than my fair share of boringness (e.g. year 10 exams at the moment) I do get to have lots of fun, too.

[MBH]

The Coke video was a wonderful find. My I reply by offering proof that Red Jelly is a valid scientific tool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH6aWwHQjjA


Or possible demonstrations of 'wave motion'?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fAfd_QcvqE

[clvrlad]

well custard is a good one since its a non Newtonian liquid

oh and dont forget the screaming jelly baby

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc0KW7kXBDo

[clvrlad]

anyway forget jelly science go with pub science

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSgZvQO3ZOQ

[giraffe]

I like the way the woman with the jelly baby had the tube pointing at her face! I think she needed more than safety specs.

[Laura]

One of the teachers at my school used jelly and other stuff to explain something about the layers under the earth's crust, with cotinents floating in it. The problem was she left it in the staffroom until it was growing a delightful layer of multi-coloured mould. It could nearly have walked to the bin by itself by the time she cleared it up!