• Question: What is your favroite element and what school have you taught at

    Asked by Longcroft lasers to Sarah, Connor, Jillian, Lidunka, Steven on 16 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by SWANNERS, Be4r_Re3d.
    • Photo: Sarah Beasley

      Sarah Beasley answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      My favourite element in school was always magnesium, I liked all the experiments and thought it looked impressive 🙂 I generally do events around schools in Wiltshire because I live in Salisbury!

    • Photo: Lidunka Vocadlo

      Lidunka Vocadlo answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      @Longcroft lasers well it would have to be iron. It’s what I live with day in, day out. The planetary cores of all the terrestrial planets are made of it. It is a remarkably complicated element because it is metallic and magnetic. It also forms my favourite mineral, pyrite, with it’s interlocking shiny cubes.
      I have taught at lots of schools, mainly in London, both primary and secondary. I normally teach them about rocks and minerals, and volcanoes and earthquakes. But I have also been a teacher and taught science in secondary school. Then I was making hot air balloons, rockets and there was a lot of fire I seem to remember. Including having to ring the fire alarm.

    • Photo: Jillian Scudder

      Jillian Scudder answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      Fun fact: to an astronomer, anything beyond helium is a “metal”. This drives all non-astronomers crazy. I’m quite taken with Carbon and Oxygen though – they’re such key things to all of life.

      Most of my teaching so far has been in other countries! Need to start doing things in the UK soon 🙂

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