A-Level Particle Physics and Radiation Dual-Coded Keywords Display and Definitions Card Sort

Can your students tell the difference between Hadrons, Baryons and Mesons? Do they know their annihilation from their pair-production? Show them in your classroom with this vibrant and engaging Dual-Coded Word Wall Display for Section 2: Particles with complementary Dual-Coded Card Sort Activities

Bring particle physics to life and turn your walls or corridors into colourful learning spaces for your year 12/A-Level Physics students with this set of 26 keywords for a vocabulary word/wall display.

Each keyword features a bespoke diagram or image using dual-coding concepts to clearly represent the idea. This will help your learners strengthen their understanding and long term retention of key vocab and allow them to recall the fundamental ideas with relative ease.

These could be referred to in lessons with both year 12 and year 13, in both instruction and revision - with matching, definition and explanation tasks. The displays could also lead to questions from students further down the school, helping to naturally expand their exposure to scientific language and tier 3 physics vocabulary.

The card sort can be used at the end of a topic, in intervention or in revision before Mock Exam, these could be a powerful activity to get students more comfortable with Physics vocabulary and to scaffold their definitions and explanations.

Specs:
PDF Version
Editable .PPT version (Fonts may need to be downloaded)
Formatted as 2 landscape keywords per A4 page

Other Displays
KS4 Equations Display

Other A-Level Resources
AQA A-Level Physics Paper 1/Year 12 Quiz Bundle