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Can anyone please tell me the ingredients for McConkeys Agar and how to make it.
Thanks
KIM

Hi juliem Our High School has been doing this course for some time via distant ed. if you contacted Camden Haven High School they would have all the info you need as that is were our students have had their work sent and marked at. They are very very approachable and nice. Lisa Burton is the Teacher...

Hi there Mary,
Post me your email address and I will send you our file with different crystals to grow.
KIMMY

Thanks - tried this and yep it worked.
KIM

WE use the hard plastic fishing boxes with seperated sections. Have one sample in each area and an index card. These have stayed together so far for 3 years and it is easy to see what is missing before the class leaves as they are clear. :idea: Also we have a few craft divided boxes that work just f...

Can anyone please help me and tell me how to make up Ferroxyl Indicator 'normal' and Ferroxyl indicator 'deoxygentaed'.
Thanks Heaps
KIM

One experiment that we quiet often use is the volcano and also slime if you have not these instructions just let me know and ill send them to you.
Anything hands on is good.

I use Aluminium Potassium Sulfate (Potash Alum) when ever i am making crystal that ask for Alum. Our teachers said it is the same. They make great crystals, just make sure that they heat the solution first. Also if you are making crystal with this add some food colouring to make different colours an...

the above sounds great would any lab assistants in the Quirindi/Tamworth/Gunnedah/Scone area be interested in doing something like that. A get together even if we only do it once a term and include Home science and even the Library.
KIM

When ever I have finished with the distiller for the term I soak overnight with vinegar then rinse the following morning. If you give it a scub in the morning this lifts any hard to remove matter.

Good luck.

To Judy M (Armidale)

Would love to attend your next get together.

Please contact me at Quirindi High School.

thanks
KIM

Just wondering what other SASS/Science Staff do on the Pupil Free/Staff Development day in other schools. We are thinking of visiting other schools to see how they run their Science/Home Science prep rooms etc. Any one interested in this. Every one has different ideas and if we could see what other ...

Hi there, when we have parent nights or year 6 orientation we do many experiments this is just one of them, Surface Tension the "Milky Way" :) This experiment demonstrates in an easy and enjoyable way the properties of surface tension. Equipment Small Petri Dish Milk Food Colouring at leas...