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What a joke,

I'm having a quiet one too as I'm saving for a family trip to vietnam next easter plus I have just finished renovations on the bathroom and it ended up costing more then expected therefore cant afford to go anywhere. Luckily the weather is beautiful here in Townsville.

yes its me and HOD who organise budget in every way

Hi All For a cheaper alternative I have used cheap clear hair gel with a bottle of glitter mixed in it. A couple of students rub the gel on their hands (glitter simulating germs) students go around the shaking hands with each other, and watch the glitter (germs) spread. Its even quite hard to remove...

Haines Educational have them $2.00 100mm

No Jazz. I think it just means that they were the last school to use it and for some strange reason the name of the school pops up as a supplier ????? Obviously a few gliches they need to fix with this program.

I love this guy. The clip where he is wringing out a wash cloth is so cool.

Happy 50th Birthday Smiley, Hope you are getting better and stronger every day.

Much the same as smeee. Can use this method with strawberries kiwi fruit etc.

I always use bananas as they are diploid or sometimes triploid so always heaps of DNA. I have also have a method that is very simple with a lot less cleaning involved. Guaranteed to work every time. Here is a picture of an extraction from last week. bananaDNA.jpg :clap3: :clap3: :clap3:

We have pasco data loggers, had them for around 6 years. I find them great but I have not used any other so cant really compare. We use ours all throughout science and maths C they are easy to use, we have the spark data loggers but if you talk to Mike Cahill @ ciderhouse there is a usb connection t...

All you guys sound like you have fantastic holiday plans.

I will be doing nothing this easter but at least my husband will be home for the entire 2 weeks so that will be nice. (He works in WA for 2 weeks on 2 off).

How would you even think you would be responsible for that incident in any way. Whatever happens in the classroom is the teachers responsibility.

You can use bananaor strawberries they are good subsititues. We also used rockmelon which worked suprisingly well.

I too had a male (crazy physics) teachers come up to me yesterday and said "How many balls do you have" I replied "More then you" we both cracked up.

Yes it has happened to me here too. Unfortunately the freezer had toads, hearts and eyeballs in it. Worst job ever to clean it out. I did eventually get the smell out so perservere if you think its worth it. Lesson learnt: I never keep any meats in the freezer over the holidays, what ever is left ov...

I have saturated solutions made up and when a prac is required I pour about 20 mls into small labelled beakers . I then top up my sat solutions with water ready for the next prac. This has lasted me all year. No complaints just praise which is nice.

Yeah I introduced the paddle pop flame test version this year and the students and teachers love it. So much easier to use.

We are converted.

Maggie Is will definately be the place to be on the holidays, its just magic.

David try office works pg1044, has poster trolleys on wheels.

What prac is it that you are doing, need a bit more detail.