Energy transfer, particles - KS3 Activate lesson

A full 1 hour lesson designed for a mixed ability year 8 class.
This is the 5th lesson in “Chapter 2 - Energy” from Activate 2, Physics. This lesson is on conduction and convection (energy transfer - particles).
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. Describe how energy is transferred through solids by conduction
2. Explain why metals are better thermal conductors than non-metals
3. Describe how energy is transferred through fluids by convection
4. Explain what causes a sea breeze

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