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Asked by ohheyitsizzy to Francesca, Laura, Matthew, Andrew, Rebecca on 10 Nov 2014.
Question: When you were at school what was your favourite thing to learn about in science?
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Matthew Camilleri answered on 10 Nov 2014:
I was always fascinated about extraterrestrial life. In fact when I was a teacher I used to finish my lessons by giving the students an open ended question for them to think about possible answers. Most of the questions were in fact about alien life forms, with the question: ‘do aliens exist?’ being highly contested between my students.
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Laura Schofield answered on 10 Nov 2014:
I really enjoyed forces in Physics. We had lots of practicals when we were learning about them and made pulley systems and cars to run down a hill that we had to adapt to slow them down or speed them up!
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Francesca Palombo answered on 10 Nov 2014:
I loved learning biology – it is ultimately about us and how a living organism (such a complex extraordinary machine!) works
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Andrew McKinley answered on 11 Nov 2014:
Transition metal chemistry was *awesome* – particularly vanadium! Learning about how the colours came about from the different oxidation states, and how it was all down to an electron hopping about between energy levels.
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Rebecca Ingle answered on 11 Nov 2014:
Definitely enjoyed the quantum mechanics in physics A level, although good old classical mechanics and engineering problems of how to balance a see-saw and things like that were still really fun. In chemistry, I preferred learning about the structure of the atom and electrons to learning anything about horrible organic reaction mechanisms – something that still hasn’t changed.
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