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So you came back for more?! Good - I am glad you did.  Hopefully you let me know, in the comments of Episode 1 , what you thought of the podcast on pollen count? Today I am recommending another podcast - from the Stuff You Should Know guys - there will be a few of these (and by few I mean MANY). In Key Stage 3 (KS3) SCIENCE we start to separate out the sciences and we learn about colours and how they mix - which is very different to what we learn in art - in physics AND we learn about the eye in biology.  How we see in colour is one of those tricky subjects whereby you almost just have to believe in the magic - after all " science is like magic; but real ". Vision is amazing So click on the following link and have a listen to Josh & Chuck talk about how we (and animals) see colour.  If you need some more resources on this subject then please look no further.... I do love a Ted Ed video so here is one for you from  Colm Kelleher .  If you want to know a littl...

It's a Ms Robertson Recommends Post There are so many things out there that we can read or listen to.  And that is without counting music, the radio, watching series on TV.  I am talking about things to do with science - things where you learn new things.  Those that know me (in a teaching sense) know that I love a video.  ****** once said that a picture paints a thousand words - well if that is the case what about an animated picture?! The phrase "a picture is worth a thousand words" can be traced back further than the 1911 advertisement shown above.  Prior to Brisbane or Barnard it is said that Leonardo da Vinci wrote that a poet would be  "overcome by sleep and hunger before [being able to] describe with words what a painter is able to [depict] in an instant".   In fact even Napoleon Bonaparte got in on the act and can be quoted as saying  "A good sketch is better than a long speech".  These blog posts are going to be short ...