Lesson introducing the Law of Inertia and F=ma - contains practice questions and student tasks.
Developing: Recall 6 common forces.
Secure: Recognise that, when there is no resultant force, forces are balanced and a body either remains at rest or continues at constant speed.
Exceeding: Apply the relation between force, mass and acceleration F=ma.
Presentation to help students get to grips with calculating speed and acceleration, also the difference between speed and velocity - contains practice questions.
Developing: Determine the speed of objects using the following formula: Speed = Distance/Time
Securing: Recall the definitions of speed, velocity and acceleration.
Exceeding: Calculate the average acceleration.
Lesson designed to build upon students prior knowledge of electric charge. Covers the equation linking charge, current and time; introduces circuit symbols; building simple circuits; difference between conventional current and electron flow - includes practice questions for students.
Ideal for AQA GCSE (9-1) P2, Cambridge iGCSE P8 and more
Developing: Recall current is a rate of flow of charge and recall and use the equation I = Q / t.
Secure: Use and describe the use of an ammeter, both analogue and digital.
Exceeding: Distinguish between the direction of flow of electrons and conventional current.
Lessons introducing and explaining the various logic gates with various work sheets.
Ideal for Cambridge iGCSE P10 and more
Lesson 1/2
Developing: Define what is meant by the terms analogue and digital in terms of continuous variation and high/ low states.
Securing: Describe the action of AND, OR, NOT logic gates.
Exceeding: Design simple circuits using AND, OR, NOT logic gates.
Lesson 2/2
Developing: Define what is meant by the terms analogue and digital in terms of continuous variation and high/ low states.
Securing: Describe the action of AND, OR, NOT logic gates.
Exceeding: Design simple circuits using AND, OR, NOT logic gates.
Lesson designed to build on students knowledge of charge, looking at drawing field lines of test charges around various charged objects - includes practice questions for students.
Ideal for AQA GCSE (9-1) P2, Cambridge iGCSE P8 and more.
Developing: State that electric charges have an electric field around them.
Secure: Describe an electric field as a region in which an electric charge experiences a force.
Exceeding: Apply knowledge of electric fields to accurately draw the electric field around a point charge, a charged conducting sphere and the field between two parallel plates.
Lesson covering phenomena of liquids and vapours. Condensation and evaporation in real life examples e.g. sweating and refrigeration, linking to kinetic theory.
Developing: Distinguish between boiling and evaporation.
Securing: Relate evaporation to the constant cooling of the liquid from which the particles have escaped.
Exceeding: Explain the cooling of a body in contact with an evaporating liquid.
Lesson taking a deep look at specific heat capacity both practically and via calculation. Links to storing thermal energy are made and understanding which materials would be best for this - includes practice questions for students.
Developing: Define the term specific heat capacity
Securing: Recall the formula used to calculate the specific heat capacity of different materials.
Exceeding: Calculate the amount of energy transferred to an object
Lesson exploring the difference between heat and temperature, touches on different types of thermometer - includes practice questions for students.
Developing: Recall that we use both the Celsius and Kelvin scale to measure temperature.
Securing: Describe the random motion of particles in terms of random molecular bombardment.
Exceeding: State and explain the difference between heat and temperature.
Lesson to introduce calculating weight using W=mg - contains practice questions. Suitable for higher KS3 also.
Developing: State that weight is a gravitational force.
Secure: Recall and use the equation W = mg.
Exceeding: Describe, and use the concept of, weight as the effect of a gravitational field on a mass.
Lesson exploring the heating of gases including how volume changes when maintaining pressure - includes card sort task and other student tasks.
Developing: Identify the key difference between the behaviour of gases when heated compared to the behaviour of liquids and solids when heated.
Securing: Draw particle diagrams to model the increase in pressure when the temperature of a gas increases.
Exceeding: Assess the relative expansion rates of solids, liquids and gases and relate the differences in expansion to the strength of the forces between particles.
Lesson delving deeper into longitudinal waves and sound waves. Contains lots of animations to help students grasp exactly what sound is includes bell jar experiment example and practice questions for students.
Ideal for AQA GCSE (9-1) P6, Cambridge iGCSE P6 and more.
Developing: Recall that vibrations cause sound waves
Securing: Describe how a medium is needed to transmit sound waves.
Exceeding: Analyse oscilloscope traces and determine which sound waves have greatest frequency and amplitude.
Lesson building on students knowledge of waves, applying wave effects like reflection to light. Contains explanation of luminous and non-luminous objects with examples - includes practice questions for students.
Ideal for AQA GCSE (9-1) P6, Cambridge iGCSE P7 and more.
Developing: Describe how light waves are reflected at surfaces with different textures.
Securing: Recall the six features of light.
Exceeding: Explain why the light emitted by a laser is monochromatic.
Two lessons designed to teach students what happens to light during reflection. Students learn how to draw appropriate ray diagrams and examine real and virtual rays - includes lots of practice questions.
Ideal for AQA GCSE (9-1) P6, Cambridge iGCSE P7 and more.
Lesson 1/2
Developing: Recall and use the law “angle of incidence = angle of reflection”.
Securing: Recall that the image in a plane mirror is virtual.
Exceeding: Describe the formation of an image by a plane mirror, and give its characteristics.
Lesson 2/2
Developing: Recall the rules for image size and position.
Securing: Locate the position of an image formed in a plane mirror.
Exceeding: Apply knowledge of reflection and light rays in simple constructions for reflection by plane mirrors.
Last lesson in the series looking at how changing the amplitude and wavelength of a waveform will affect a sound. Also includes uses of sounds like ultrasound - includes practice questions for students.
Ideal for AQA GCSE (9-1) P6, Cambridge iGCSE P6 and more
Developing: State the approximate range of audible frequencies for a healthy human ear is 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz.
Securing: Relate the loudness and pitch of sound waves to amplitude and frequency.
Exceeding: Apply the wave equation to quantitatively analyse the differences between sound waves.
Lesson building on prior knowledge of pressure in fluids, exploring the uses of pressure including manometers, barometers & hydraulics - includes practice questions for students.
Ideal for Cambridge iGCSE P3 and more.
Developing: Recall that the atmosphere around the Earth acts like a deep ocean of air that exerts pressure in all directions.
Secure: Describe the simple mercury barometer and its use in measuring atmospheric pressure.
Exceeding: Apply knowledge of atmospheric pressure and pressure in liquids to solve problems involving manometers.
Presentation to help students get to grips with calculating density and volume - contains practice questions.
Suitable for AQA P3, Cambridge iGCSE P1 and more!
Developing: Recall the definitions for density and weight
Secure: Be able to use the equations for density and weight
Exceeding: Predict whether an object will sink or float based on density data