Energy and temperature - KS3 Activate lesson

A full 1 hour lesson designed for a mixed ability year 8 class.
This is the 4th lesson in “Chapter 2 - Energy” from Activate 2, Physics. This lesson is on ‘energy and temperature’.
This lesson should be suitable to teach to any KS3 Physics class, even by those where physics is not their specialism.
This lesson (and all lessons in this unit) is designed to be interactive and engaging, with plenty of real world examples and independent tasks.

From this lesson, students should be able to:

1. Recall a scientific definition for the term ‘temperature’ in terms of energy
2. Describe the difference between the temperature of an object and its thermal energy store
3. Describe how the arrangement of particles changes when a substance is heated
4. Describe how equilibrium is reached when an object has a different temperature to the surroundings

All of my lesson resources contain:

• A 5-in-5 retrieval-style starter
• An interesting lesson hook, careers link, or retrieval practice to start the lesson
• Teacher input slides with dual coding and reduced cognitive load
• Teacher models
• Regular ‘check for understanding’ slides, such as hand signals quizzes
• Regular student independent practice slides, with optional scaffolds, challenges and answer slides
• A plenary task