A simple settler activity where students need to highlight the correct statements to find the hidden letter.
Topics include:
Forces,
Sound,
Light,
Waves,
Speed,
Energy.
A comprehensive lesson which teaches students how to resolve vector diagrams via: pythagoras, trigonometry and scale drawings. Lesson is tailored towards the AQA A-level physics specification - Mechanics
Tasks are differentiated to suit the needs of each learner.
Learning objective: Learning objective: Apply trigonometry and Pythagoras to resolve vectors
By the end of the lesson learners should be able to:
Success criteria:
SC1: Compare scalars and vectors.
SC2: Use pythagoras and trigonometry in order to solve net vectors including inclined planes.
SC3: Use scale diagrams to resolve net vectors when coplanar forces are in equilibrium.
Contains past paper questions that target this topic, some questions require knowledge from prior lessons. There is also a guide attached with written walkthroughs of how to reach the final answer, even for those tricky 1 mark questions.
Powerpoint contains 14 slides and 14 past paper questions.
A comprehensive lesson which teaches students how to calculate work, relate this to power, calculate the efficiency of work due to angles and energy transfers. Lesson is tailored towards the AQA A-level physics specification - Mechanics
Learning objective: To apply understanding of energy to motion and how angles affect the efficiency of work.
By the end of the lesson learners should be able to:
Success criteria:
SC1: Describe what is meant by work and power.
SC2: Calculate the efficiency of work when angles are involved.
SC3: Use the conservation of energy to calculate values from the spring potential, gravitational potential and kinetic energy equations.
Contains past paper questions that target this topic, some questions require knowledge from prior lessons. There is also a guide attached with written walkthroughs of how to reach the final answer, even for those tricky 1 mark questions.
Powerpoint contains 20 slides and 8 past paper questions.
A comprehensive lesson which teaches students conservation of momentum, elastic and inelastic collisions, impulse graphs and how these link to change in momentum. Lesson is tailored towards the AQA A-level physics specification - Mechanics
Learning objective: Calculate momentum and apply this to justify force changes during collisions.
By the end of the lesson learners should be able to:
Success criteria:
SC1: Calculate momentum.
SC2: Compare elastic and inelastic collisions.
SC3: Explain why impulse graphs show force outputs.
Contains past paper questions that target this topic, some questions require knowledge from prior lessons. There is also a guide attached with written walkthroughs of how to reach the final answer, even for those tricky 1 mark questions.
Powerpoint contains 18 slides and 13 past paper questions.
A comprehensive lesson which teaches students about errors, uncertainties and how these can be represented as error bars. This lesson was designed to fit needs of the AQA a-level physics course
Tasks are differentiated to suit the needs of each learner.
Learning objective: Understand and apply the concepts of measurement uncertainties.
By the end of the lesson learners should be able to:
Success criteria:
1: Identify random and systematic errors.
2: Calculate different types of uncertainties.
3: Represent uncertainties on graphs.
Powerpoint contains 29 slides.
Contains past paper questions that target this topic, some questions require knowledge from prior lessons.
A comprehensive lesson which teaches students about power and how the equations for power can be derived using other equations furthermore it also applies this to Kirchhoff’s law of conservation of current. This lesson was designed to fit the needs of the AQA a-level physics course - unit 5 electricity.
Tasks are differentiated to suit the needs of each learner.
Learning objective: To calculate power dissipation by using various equations.
By the end of the lesson learners should be able to:
Success criteria:
SC1: I can describe how to calculate power without using the standard P=IV calculation.
SC2: I can justify what is meant by power.
SC3: I can Link Kirchhoff’s conservation of charge to power dissipation in branches.
Powerpoint contains 7 slides.
Contains a series of questions that are supposed to target the entire electricity unit with included success criteria to ensure students give the necessary detail.
Contains past paper questions that target this topic, some questions require knowledge from prior lessons.
A comprehensive lesson which teaches students about factors that influence resistance within a wire in terms of area and length as well as superconductivity. This lesson was designed to fit needs of the AQA a-level physics course - unit 5 electricity.
Tasks are differentiated to suit the needs of each learner.
Learning objective: To justify the components of the resistivity equation and apply it.
By the end of the lesson learners should be able to:
Success criteria:
I can describe resistivity.
I can derive the units of resistivity by using the equation.
I can explain why superconductivity arises.
Powerpoint contains 8 slides and a pack of past paper questions
Contains past paper questions that target this topic, some questions require knowledge from prior lessons.
A comprehensive lesson which teaches students about internal resistance and how this can be measured by measuring the gradient from a current-voltage graph. This lesson was designed to fit needs of the AQA a-level physics course - unit 5 electricity.
Tasks are differentiated to suit the needs of each learner.
Learning objective: To evaluate the effect of internal resistance in a circuit.
By the end of the lesson learners should be able to:
Success criteria:
I can describe what is meant by internal resistance
I can calculate internal resistance
I can obtain results for internal resistance from voltage and current readings.
Powerpoint contains 9 slides and past paper pack of questions.
Contains past paper questions that target this topic, some questions require knowledge from prior lessons.
A comprehensive lesson which teaches students about Ohm’s law and how IV graphs are sketched for fixed resistors, diodes, thermistors, LDRs and filament bulbs. This lesson was designed to fit needs of the AQA a-level physics course - unit 5 electricity.
Tasks are differentiated to suit the needs of each learner.
Learning objective: To investigate the relationship between current and voltage in different circuit components.
By the end of the lesson learners should be able to:
Success criteria:
I can describe the IV graph trends for filament bulbs, diodes, fixed resistors, thermistors and LDRs
I can apply Ohm’s law to identify and then justify why IV graphs might be different.
I can apply my knowledge to answer past paper questions.
Powerpoint contains 30 slides.
Contains past paper questions that target this topic, some questions require knowledge from prior lessons.
A revision poster that includes material needed for section 8 of the edexcel iGCSE combined science double award physics. Section 8 - Astrophysics
A blank copy for students to fill in is also included for students to test their knowledge.
I would recommend to print these in A3 and guide the students through the answers using the completed revision poster attached.
Due to the amount of detail needed to squeeze into one poster, the font is small in some sections which might need some further zooming in on presenting devices.
A revision poster that includes material needed for section 7 of the edexcel iGCSE combined science double award physics. Section 7 - Radioactivity
A blank copy for students to fill in is also included for students to test their knowledge.
I would recommend to print these in A3 and guide the students through the answers using the completed revision poster attached.
Due to the amount of detail needed to squeeze into one poster, the font is small in some sections which might need some further zooming in on presenting devices.
A revision poster that includes material needed for section 6 of the edexcel iGCSE combined science double award physics. Section 6 Electromagnetism
A blank copy for students to fill in is also included for students to test their knowledge.
I would recommend to print these in A3 and guide the students through the answers using the completed revision poster attached.
Due to the amount of detail needed to squeeze into one poster, the font is small in some sections which might need some further zooming in on presenting devices.
A revision poster that includes material needed for section 5 of the edexcel iGCSE combined science double award physics. Section 5 Solids liquids and gases
A blank copy for students to fill in is also included for students to test their knowledge.
I would recommend to print these in A3 and guide the students through the answers using the completed revision poster attached.
Due to the amount of detail needed to squeeze into one poster, the font is small in some sections which might need some further zooming in on presenting devices.
A comprehensive lesson which teaches students about factors that influence the size of a star, the journey through the life of an average sized star and a high mass star and how the colours of stars indicate their energy being released.
Progress checks are available following each success criteria
Tasks are differentiated to suit the needs of each learner.
Learning objective: Understand the process of stellar evolution
By the end of the lesson learners should be able to:
Success criteria:
I identify the forces at play in a star.
I can describe stellar evolution
I can compare different coloured stars.
Powerpoint contains 18 slides.
Contains past paper questions that target this topic, some questions require knowledge from prior lessons.
A revision poster that includes material needed for section 2 of the edexcel iGCSE combined science double award physics. Section 2 - electricity
A blank copy for students to fill in is also included for students to test their knowledge.
I would recommend to print these in A3 and guide the students through the answers using the completed revision poster attached.
Due to the amount of detail needed to squeeze into one poster, the font is small in some sections which might need some further zooming in on presenting devices.
A comprehension lesson that teaches students how to create and analyse Sankey Diagrams.
The concept is introduced in the context of money to firstly engage the students (dirham currency is used as the students I taught were in the UAE, however, this should be fairly simple to understand as it is labelled below).
Support sheets are also included to guide students should it be needed.
Tasks are differentiated to suit the needs of each learner.
Progress checks are placed after each success criteria checkpoint to assess understanding.
By the end of the lesson students should be able to:
Success criteria:
I can critically analyse a Sankey diagram to identify quantifiable components.
I can construct and adapt Sankey diagrams
I can calculate efficiency of a system from its Sankey diagram.
Learning objective: Develop and interpret Sankey diagrams to visualize and analyze complex data flows.
Powerpoint contains 33 slides and a lesson plan is also attached.
Originally created for the BTEC Applied Science level 3 qualification Unit 5 - Physics.
By the end of the lesson learners should be able to:
Recall the second law of thermodynamics.
Describe what is meant by natural processes and entropy.
Compare adiabatic and isothermal processes.
The resource contains past paper questions and mark scheme answers.
Slides were originally created using google slides, opening in microsoft powerpoint might cause slight misalignment - open in google slides to avoid this.
Originally created for the BTEC Applied Science level 3 qualification Unit 5 - Physics.
By the end of the lesson learners should be able to:
Recall a system in which work and heat is used.
Describe the first law of thermodynamics
Calculate specific heat and specific latent heat
The resource contains past paper questions and mark scheme answers.
Slides were originally created using google slides, opening in microsoft powerpoint might cause slight misalignment - open in google slides to avoid this.
Originally created for the BTEC Applied Science level 3 qualification Unit 5 - Physics.
By the end of the lesson learners should be able to:
Recall the ideal gas equation.
Describe how scientists calculated absolute zero.
Evaluate different thermometers.
The resource contains past paper questions and mark scheme answers.
Slides were originally created using google slides, opening in microsoft powerpoint might cause slight misalignment - open in google slides to avoid this.
A google slides resource that is ready to be used out of the box. Slides include guided walkthroughs for calculating KiloWattHours and the cost of using domestic appliances.
Slides might need some alterations when opened with powerpoint.
By the end of the lesson learners will be able to:
Recall the equation for power
Describe the link between power, fuel use and the cost of using domestic appliances
Explain the difference between energy and power