Here’s a worksheet (with solutions) for a lesson on latent heat and energy-temperature graphs (heating curves and cooling curves). I’ve also included a video that I’ve made to explain the idea of heating an ice cube and its change of states.
Enjoy!
Here’s a worksheet for projectile motion in A Level physics. I’ve also included a video that explains the graphs of motion for an object thrown upwards and experiences free fall.
Here are a few worksheets covering the theory of density and instruction for the core practical, finding density of irregular objects using eureka can.
Pupils learn about how light intensity, temperature, wind speed, and humidity affect the rate of transpiration. At the end, there’s a creative writing exercise.
Here’s a worksheet for a lesson on resolving/adding coplanar vectors along with a short explanation video that I’ve made:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMBEhrm8M-Q&feature=youtu.be
enjoy!
I’ve created and run an escape room experience based on science/physics at my school. Check it out here, a step-by-step guide: https://vtphysics.wixsite.com/vtphysics
If you want the files to recreate this escape room, do drop me a message and I’ll send you the pdf and image files!
Enjoy!
This set of powerpoint presentations consists of 28 slides (around 3 hours of work for students), including step-by-step instruction for 2 practicals.
There is also a revision mat / knowledge organiser in full color and can be printed as an A3 sheet. (45min to 1 hour worth of revision for students)
Learning objectives covered:
Explain what is meant by the poles of a magnet.
Plot the magnetic field around a bar magnet.
Describe magnetic materials and induced magnetism.
Describe the Earth’s magnetic field.
Describe the magnetic effect of a current.
Summary questions and answers (appear on click) are included in the slides.
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Enjoy!
I’ve used this resource with my GCSE students revising for Electricity. The tarsia puzzle has all the electricity symbols and units that they need to know. Hope you like it!
Radioactivity GCSE Physics
I got my pupils to make their own radiation badge to learn about alpha, beta, and gamma radiation’s penetrating power. They cut out ‘photographic films’ and darkened the areas that would be affected when the badge is exposed to each type of radiations.
I have included a few versions of the activity so that you can print out the version most suitable for you and your class.
Hope this is useful in your pupils’ learning process!
I’ve used these resources with my students for the teaching of “solids, liquids and gases” or also known as “states of matter” for GCSE physics. They lasted for more than 7 lessons (45min each period), which will differ depending on your set’s ability and the duration of each period.
I’ve tried to include as much detail as possible in the teaching notes. I’ve included answers to all the questions and tasks in these resources.
Enjoy!
This resource bundle includes:
1 powerpoint presentation (16 slides)
7 class handouts / worksheets
7 teaching notes for class handouts / worksheets
7 homework assignments
7 homework assignment mark schemes
Topics
State of matter - solids, liquids, gases, changing states
Specific heat capacity - calculation of SHC
Latent heat - temperature and changing states, cooling curve
Temperature - conversion between Kelvin and Celsius
Molecular kinetic theory - Brownian motion
Pressure and volume - Boyle’s law
Pressure and temperature - Gay-Lussac’s law
LO:
To describe the arrangement of particles in solids, liquids, and gases and describe their changes of state.
16 slides for KS3 or KS4 students to learn about these topics:
Particle model
Solids
Liquids
Gases
Evaporation
Melting
Boiling
Sublimation
Condensation
Freezing
Boiling temperature
Melting temperature
Suggested investigation: measuring boiling temperature of 3 different substances
11 question booklets with mark schemes
I have organised questions (mostly exam style questions) by the topics in forces and motion. They come with mark schemes.
Here are the topics:
Speed, distance, and time
Distance-time graphs
Velocity and acceleration
Velocity-time graphs
Tangent on distance-time graphs
Equations of motion
Types of forces
Scalars and vectors
Resultant forces
Newton’s second law
Mass and weight
This bundle consists of 8 sections covering the “Shape and momentum” topics of the unit Forces and Motion in KS4 GCSE physics.
Each section consists of a PDF document designed for pupils to use as a handout to be integrated into the lesson. There is a corresponding document for teachers - it consists of my own notes and solutions to questions and tasks.
A typical layout of each section includes:
setting learning objectives
learning the theory
examples
small tasks
exam-style questions
This bundle is also great for revision and recapping key ideas for pupils in year 11 before their exams.
Below are the individual sections that I’ve divided the unit of Forces and Motion into. I hope that this resource is helpful and saves you plenty of time!
(If you want the entire Forces and Motion bundle consisting 25 sections for the whole unit, be sure to check out this bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/forces-and-motion-whole-unit-gcse-physics-11947315 )
Shape and momentum
Hooke’s law
Center of gravity
Moments
Principle of moments
Stability
Momentum
Conservation of momentum
Change in momentum
This bundle consists of 10 sections covering the “forces and movement” chapter of the unit Forces and Motion in KS4 GCSE physics.
Each section consists of a PDF document designed for pupils to use as a handout to be integrated into the lesson. There is a corresponding document for teachers - it consists of my own notes and solutions to questions and tasks.
A typical layout of each section includes:
setting learning objectives
learning the theory
examples
small tasks
exam-style questions
This bundle is also great for revision and recapping key ideas for pupils in year 11 before their exams.
Below are the individual sections that I’ve divided the unit of Forces and Motion into. I hope that this resource is helpful and saves you plenty of time!
(If you want the entire Forces and Motion bundle consisting 25 sections for the whole unit, be sure to check out this bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/forces-and-motion-whole-unit-gcse-physics-11947315 )
Forces and movement
Types of forces
Scalars and vectors
Force diagrams
Resultant forces
Newton’s first law
Newton’s second law
Newton’s third law
Mass and weight
Terminal velocity
Stopping distance
This bundle consists of 7 sections covering the first 7 topics in the unit Forces and Motion in KS4 GCSE physics.
Each section consists of a PDF document designed for pupils to use as a handout to be integrated into the lesson. There is a corresponding document for teachers - it consists of my own notes and solutions to questions and tasks.
A typical layout of each section includes:
setting learning objectives
learning the theory
examples
small tasks
exam-style questions
This bundle is also great for revision and recapping key ideas for pupils in year 11 before their exams.
Below are the individual sections that I’ve divided the unit of Forces and Motion into. I hope that this resource is helpful and saves you plenty of time!
(If you want the entire Forces and Motion bundle consisting 25 sections for the whole unit, be sure to check out this bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/forces-and-motion-whole-unit-gcse-physics-11947315 )
Movement and position
1 Speed, distance, and time
2 Speed and velocity
3 Distance-time graphs
4 Velocity and acceleration
5 Velocity-time graphs
6 Tangent on distance-time graphs
7 Non-uniform acceleration
This bundle consists of 25 sections covering the entirety of the unit Forces and Motion in KS4 GCSE physics.
Each section consists of a PDF document designed for pupils to use as a handout to be integrated into the lesson. There is a corresponding document for teachers - it consists of my own notes and solutions to questions and tasks.
A typical layout of each section includes:
setting learning objectives
learning the theory
examples
small tasks
exam-style questions
This bundle is also great for revision and recapping key ideas for pupils in year 11 before their exams.
Below are the individual sections that I’ve divided the unit of Forces and Motion into. I hope that this resource is helpful and saves you plenty of time!
Movement and position
1 Speed, distance, and time
2 Speed and velocity
3 Distance-time graphs
4 Velocity and acceleration
5 Velocity-time graphs
6 Tangent on distance-time graphs
7 Non-uniform acceleration
Forces and movement
8 Types of forces
9 Scalars and vectors
10 Force diagrams
11 Resultant forces
12 Newton’s first law
13 Newton’s second law
14 Newton’s third law
15 Mass and weight
16 Terminal velocity
17 Stopping distance
Shape and momentum
18 Hooke’s law
19 Center of gravity
20 Moments
21 Principle of moments
22 Stability
23 Momentum
24 Conservation of momentum
25 Change in momentum
GCSE physics worksheet/handout on Change in momentum (impulse).
Teacher’s copy of the handout includes complete notes and answers to questions. I have included both the PDF and DOC version of the same handout for your ease of use.
Learning objective:
Understand that Newton’s second law can be expressed using momentum.
Recall and use the equation relating force, change in momentum, and time.
( In this resource, I have not made reference to “impulse” because the syllabus that I follow does not require the use of this vocab. I’ve simply called it the change in momentum. )
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Happy teaching!
GCSE physics worksheet/handout on Conservation of momentum.
Teacher’s copy of the handout includes complete notes and answers to questions. I have included both the PDF and DOC version of the same handout for your ease of use.
Learning objective:
Recall and apply the idea of conservation of momentum in collisions and explosions.
Happy teaching!