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 exploring what happens when materials are heated with real life examples e.g. train lines, bridge gaps and thermostats - includes questions for students. Developing: Identify some of the everyday applications of thermal expansion. Securing: Describe qualitatively the thermal expansion of solids, liquids and gases at constant pressure. Exceeding: Explain in terms of the motion and arrangement of molecules, the extent to which solids, liquids and gases expand when temperature increases.

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 exploring the states of matter and kinetic theory, touching on internal energy - includes student video task. Developing: State the properties of solids, liquids and gases. Securing: Relate the properties of solids, liquids and gases to the forces and distances between molecules. Exceeding: Describe kinetic theory and state evidence that supports kinetic theory.

Lesson covering the addition of vectors in a straight line and at right angles, calculating magnitude and direction of each force - Practice questions included. Developing: Recall the difference between vector and scalar quantities with examples. Secure: Calculate the resultant of two vectors by adding vectors that occur in parallel or at right angles to each other. Exceeding: Solve exam style questions using vectors.

Lesson covering all areas of momentum, including, calculating various parts of the equation including velocity after a head on collision and collision in the same direction; linking to car safety features. Developing: Recall and use the equation p = mv Secure: Describe the conservation of momentum and use to calculate mass, velocity or momentum in a crash situation. Exceeding: Use ideas of momentum to explain safety features.

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.

Presentation to help students get to grips with friction and the need for lubricants - includes practice questions. Suitable for higher KS3 students also. Developing: Recall the definition friction and what direction is acts in. Secure: Explain how friction works and what causes it. Exceeding: Explore ways of reducing Friction.

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.

Lesson to explore forces in balance, linking to terminal velocity - includes practice questions. Suitable for a higher KS3 class also. Developing: Recognise that if there is no resultant force on a body it either remains at rest or continues at constant speed in a straight line. Secure: Recognise air resistance as a form of friction. Exceeding: Explain, in terms of the forces acting, how the acceleration of an object experiencing air resistance varies during its fall.

Lesson exploring free fall and terminal velocity with a link to the acceleration equation and ‘g’ - contains practice questions. Developing: Define what is meant by the term “free fall” Secure: Recall the value of the acceleration of free fall and state that this acceleration is uniform. Exceeding: With the help of motion graphs, describe qualitatively the motion of bodies falling in a uniform gravitational field with and without air resistance.

Presentation to support a ticker tape investigation of motion - contains practice questions, practical instructions/analysis/graph drawing and homework - suitable for higher KS3 classes also. Developing: Conduct the experiment safely Secure: Measure and record accurate results Exceeding: Analyse the motion on the ticker tape

Presentation to help students get to grips with motion graphs - contains practice questions and flash animations. Developing: Recognise from the shape of a speed-time graph when a body is – at rest / moving with constant speed / accelerating / decelerating. Secure: Calculate speed from the gradient of a speed-time graph. Exceeding: Demonstrate understanding that acceleration and deceleration are related to changing speed.

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.

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

Presentation to help students get to grips with measuring length and time - contains practice questions and pendulum practical - suitable for higher KS3 classes also. Developing: measure length using a ruler, micrometer and vernier caliper Secure: calculate the period of a pendulum by using a stop watch. Exceeding: explain why having accurate measurements is important and explain what zero error is.

Presentation to help students get to grips with prefixes and scientific notation - contains practice questions - also suitable for higher KS3 classes. Developing: Recall the 8 basic prefixes. Secure: Most students will be able to use the 8 basic prefixes in the keywords and explain what they mean with an example. Exceeding: Apply scientific notation and convert fractions/decimals into standard form.