Welcome to the world of Science Geeks! We provide fun, science resources for the busy teaching boffins that educate the young science geeks of the future! Spread the word of the geeks and catch us on our YouTube channel to enjoy our free educational videos.
Welcome to the world of Science Geeks! We provide fun, science resources for the busy teaching boffins that educate the young science geeks of the future! Spread the word of the geeks and catch us on our YouTube channel to enjoy our free educational videos.
What is the difference between an uncertainty and an error? How do we calculate percentage uncertainties? How do we compound errors? Uncertainty calculations galore! This presentation is packed with examples, questions and practical tasks to stretch A level students of all abilities! BONUS slides included on how to use a MICROMETER and VERNIER scales. Essential Advanced Level Physics practical skills! Boost their performance at CPAC compulsory practicals and see those practical exam scores improve! Twenty one slides of Physics fun.
Pesky Space topics! A content packed worksheet covering objects within and beyond our solar system! Galaxies! Nebula! Light years! The big Bang! There is differentiated content here to keep students of all abilities occupied! COMPLETE with ANSWERS! Science Geeks - making engaging worksheets so you don’t have to!
We all know what atoms are made of don’t we? But where did our current models come from? Travel through the ages with this comprehensive worksheet from Democritus to Dalton onto the plum pudding model, Rutherford’s alpha scattering experiment and even Bohr’s Model! Easily accessible for students of all abilities it comes complete with an answer sheet and a bonus crossword puzzle to keep the pesky kids busy. The nuclear model is one of the great scientific discoveries ever.
Five vital equations that you must learn in order to blag your way through your Physics or combined science GCSE! Complete with a summer holiday based “Famous Five/Enid Blyton physics” worksheet with complete answers and a link to a “Microsoft forms quiz” …Plus a youtube video to subliminally get the content into their heads!! It is the complete revision package! Enjoy!
Conservation of energy! A bright, thought provoking, visual mind map poster and learning aid all about the energy transfers that are happening all around us! It comes with a challenging worksheet designed to stretch students across the ability range. There is also an accompanying 10 minute Science Geeks YouTube video available that provides students (and teachers) with all the basic knowledge they need to know.
I have included both a word and a pdf version.
All images, photos and graphics are made or taken by M.E.Prince (that’s me!). No copyright issues.
The pesky lens formula! Converging? Diverging? Hard or what? Lens diagrams!? Impossible! We all know practice makes perfect. This DOUBLE SIDED worksheet contains lots of lens formula questions and scale diagram drawing fun. The perfect resource for identifying student weaknesses in order to inform intervention. It even comes with THE ANSWERS! Enjoy.
A TWO PAGE worksheet packed with content and extension tasks all about static electricity and its uses aimed at GCSE or more able KS3 students! There is also an accompanying 5 minute Science Geeks YouTube video available that provides students (and teachers) with all the basic knowledge they need to know.
I have included both a pdf and a word version for your editing pleasure.
Note: All images, photos and graphics are made or taken by M.E.Prince (that’s me!). There are no copyright issues.
Nasty quantum physics, messing up the whole wave model and confusing everyone. Have no fear though - this worksheet deals with the photoelectric effect, keeps it simple and shows just how elegant and sensible quantum theory can be. Where the wave model fails, the idea of photons comes to the fore. This DOUBLE SIDED worksheet tests student’s understanding of all aspects of this difficult concept from explaining it in extended responses to dealing with Einstein’s formula and using joules and electron volts. Complete with DETAILED ANSWERS for all questions, this worksheet will keep even the most annoying, I mean able, students occupied and enthralled. Science Geeks - helping Physics teachers everywhere. Enjoy.
How do we see the different colours? What are primary colours? What colour does a cyan object appear in a magenta light? How do filters work? Why so many questions? Well, its the DOUBLE SIDED colour worksheet of your dreams! That’s why! Aimed at KS3 Science classes of all abilities, there are plenty of activities and brain teasers to keep students across the spectrum engaged. It comes complete with a teacher answer sheet to allow you more time to get on with that huge pile of admin and marking staring at you instead of important things like lesson planning. Get a class set photocopied and laminated in FULL COLOUR for maximum impact. That’s what I did and the resource has lasted me for years. Enjoy!
Watch kettles boil! Live! This set of resources requires students to investigate a range of different kettles and calculate their efficiency. Which kettle is the most efficient? What is the science behind their design features? There are TWO versions of the DOUBLE SIDED WORKSHEET. The most challenging version gives students some useful information and then the rest is up to them! There is also a HELP sheet with step by step instructions to help weaker students carry out the investigation. Packed with extension tasks and questions designed to make students think, this activity can be ran over several lessons! Just remember to provide a variety of different shapes, sizes and ages of kettles. ideal for KS3 or GCSE or even ALEVEL! (TOP TIP: To save time, students can be required to investigate one kettle each and then pool their results.)
A worksheet packed with resistivity questions designed for A level students of all abilities! It comes COMPLETE WITH ANSWERS to all questions to encourage self assessment or simply to reduce your marking burden. Students will have to be happy with converting units, manipulating the formula and determining resistivity through practical methods before use and extension tasks are provided for those pesky more able students. Enjoy (for a small price)! It comes as a pdf file or as a word version if you want to pretend that you made it yourself.
Y.O.Y.O. lessons - Scientific investigations designed to develop problem solving skills and make independent learners of our spoon students! In this one they investigate how the mass of a ramp affects friction between it and another surface! Dragging wood blocks slowly in other words! Students must complete the set task without any help whatsoever from their teachers. They have only the worksheet to help them. They can only ask you a question if they use a joker card! (They have three of them - one specific question per Joker). Complete it without using jokers and win rewards! Character building for both staff and students and an excellent lesson to use for formal observations and OFSTED invasions. This is how real scientists are made. The resource comes with a set of joker cards, a worksheet for the lesson and a teacher guide with the YOYO rules as a PowerPoint. Enjoy!
A content packed, double sided worksheet all about magnets and magnetism! Aimed at key stage 3 students of all abilities, there is something on this worksheet for everyone. It starts with a practical activity before testing students knowledge of magnets in a variety of styles. Complete with a full answer sheet, this is ideal for non specialists or expert practitioners alike and is an excellent resource for use in the classroom, homework or revision. Enjoy! It comes as a word document and in pdf format. All images are copyright of science geeks and are all my own work.
Y.O.Y.O. lessons - Scientific investigations designed to develop problem solving skills and make independent learners of our spoon fed students! In this one they investigate how the height of a ramp affects the time it takes for a marble to roll down it! Students must complete the set task without any help whatsoever from their teachers! They have only the worksheet to help them! They can only ask you a question if they use a joker card! (They have three of them - one specific question per Joker). Complete it without using jokers and win rewards! Character building for both staff and students and an excellent lesson to use for formal observations and OFSTED invasions. This is how real scientists are made. The resource comes with a set of joker cards, a worksheet for the lesson and a teacher guide with the YOYO rules as a PowerPoint. Enjoy!
Y.O.Y.O. lessons - Scientific investigations designed to develop problem solving skills and make independent learners of our spoon fed students! In this one they investigate the first law of reflection! Students must complete the set task without any help whatsoever from their teachers! They have only the worksheet to help them! They can only ask you a question if they use a joker card! (They have three of them - one specific question per Joker). Complete it without using jokers and win rewards! Character building for both staff and students and an excellent lesson to use for formal observations and OFSTED invasions. This is how real scientists are made. The resource comes with a set of joker cards, a worksheet for the lesson and a teacher guide with the YOYO rules as a PowerPoint. Enjoy!
Thermionic emission? Particle accelerators?! An often overlooked A level topic which introduces the essential relationship eV = 1/2 mv2 linking work done by and electric field on a charged particle and kinetic energy…
This worksheet takes students through the use of this vital idea and also gets across the important, an again often overlooked, concept of equations only being valid in non-relativistic situations. Einstein-tastic! It comes complete with full answer sheets and at a bargain price! It is also provided in both word and pdf formats. Yes. I am too kind!
A worksheet packed with questions to suit all abilities on the subject of motion and balanced and unbalanced forces. From simple force diagrams to terminal velocity and maximum speed of cars, this is the ideal resource to consolidate student knowledge and test understanding of these key concepts. Aimed at ks3 students or year 11 students, it serves as a qualitative introduction to resultant forces and their effect on the motion of everyday, and some not everyday, objects. Challenging extension tasks are provided for more able students. Enjoy. A Science Geeks video included too!
Save a fortune! Speed, acceleration, forces, stopping distances , distance-time graphs and velocity-time graphs! Worksheets galore to keep your students busy and engaged in this challenging topic!
TWO SIDES of speed questions to keep even the swottiest students engaged! Calculate the speed using the speed formula and rearrange it to find out even more stuff! Questions start off simply before climaxing with questions designed to cause student's brains to potentially explode! There is also an accompanying 3 minute Science Geeks YouTube video available that provides students (and teachers) with all the basic knowledge they need to know. I have included both a pdf and a word version for your editing pleasure and just in case Justin Bieber meets his maker.
A presentation showing students how to use THE WAVE EQUATION and lots of questions to go with it. It also tackles the thorny issue of TIME PERIOD and using it to calculate the frequency.
There is a bonus presentation that comes free with it that includes more wave equation questions plus it has some EM Wave based questions to get those high flying boffins engaged! Enjoy! It comes with links to FOUR science geeks revision videos.