Energy adds up - KS3 Activate lesson

A full 1 hour lesson designed for a mixed ability year 8 class.
This is the 8th and final lesson in “Chapter 2 - Energy” from Activate 2, Physics. This lesson is on conservation of energy (titled ‘energy adds up’).
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 the law of conservation of energy
2. Recall the 7 main stores of energy
3. When given an example, identify what the main store of energy is
4. Describe how energy is transferred between one store to another
5. Explain why money can be used to model energy

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