A complete lesson plan and PPT presentation about parallel circuits for new GCSE(2016). Covers all the main topics, measuring current and voltage, calculating resistance and understanding why resistance in a parallel circuit decreases the more branches there are.

This resource is an opportunity for students to practice converting to common prefixes such as micro, milli etc. and converting numbers to standard form or scientific notation. There are 20 questions for them to complete and I have included the answers as well! This is aimed at Science students for the new maths content within the new GCSE (2016) for AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC but it would be equally suitable for anyone needing to practice standard form so any Maths students. It is designed as a homework but can equally well be used as a lesson activity. This resource is designed to accompany my Powers of Ten lesson (available separately) which is a good introduction to this worksheet.

A structured resource to help students research the environmental effects of different energy production methods.

A set of game cards for Taboo covering the basic topics of Physics: Energy, Waves, Origins of the Universe, Energy transfers, Conduction, Convection, Radiation. Students play in teams of two. One person picks up a card and has to describe the phrase in the top box without using any of the words on the card. Their team mate has to guess it to win. The opposing two members of the four can jump in and steal the card by guessing correctly. This is an ideal revision activity as it forces the students to describe the topic without using key words. This increases understanding.

A full lesson plan and presentation to enable students to calculate Gravitational Potential Energy and plot a graph of Release height versus return height for a ball bearing.

A full lesson plan for GCSE Physics on Kinetic Energy. This includes demo calculations and re-arranging of the equations to help students with the new requirements of calculating velocity from kinetic energy. Accompanying videos and lesson plan to illustrate the effect of mass and speed on kinetic energy.

An introductory lesson for GCSE Physics regarding energy stores and the concept of shifting energy as opposed to energy types. clarifies the situation with concrete examples and an energy circus for students to identify energy stores that are used.

A lesson plan and presentation to explain elastic potential energy to students for the new GCSE in Physics. This covers the information they need to know regarding how to do calculations with the elastic potential energy formula.

This is a lesson plan and presentation to introduce the idea of AC/DC. It starts with a game of "what's the link?" encouraging lateral thinking. It then goes on to detail AC and DC and the differences between them.

A pair of scaffolded worksheets that take students through calculating the force applies to a spring, the elastic potential energy stored in a spring and then rearranging the equation to calculate spring constant or extension. The answer sheets are also included with rearranged equations and units. This accompanies the work on Hooke's Law which can also be downloaded from my web shop Grade Gain.

A detailed lesson plan, presentation and worksheet with answers for the teaching of resultant forces for the new GCSE specification in Physics or Combined Science. This covers the basics of resultant forces for more comprehensive Higher Tier lesson please see my shop Grade Gain

A lesson plan, presentation, and worksheets for teaching about forces. Contact and non-contact forces are covered as is drawing of vector diagrams of forces. Students apply this to real world situations in the summary task. Aimed at GCSE Physics students and GCSE AQA Trilogy but also suitable for all other exam boards. This is one of a sequence of lessons, the others are available here Grade Gain

Lesson plan and presentation that covers forces and elasticity for GCSE Physics. It introduces the concept of proportionality and the foundations of Hooke's Law ready for the required practical.

A lesson plan, powerpoint presentation and practical worksheet for the required practical - Hooke's Law. This trio of resources allows you to teach a fully structured lesson around Hooke's Law. The students get the opportunity to practice calculating the gradient from their graph and then calculating the reciprocal to find the spring constant. For further Physics teaching resources please visit my shop Grade Gain.

A lesson plan and presentation that covers all of the basics for the different types of nuclear radiation. It introduces the concepts of Activity, Becquerels, alpha, beta, gamma and neutron radiation and looks at the dangers of these inside and outside of the body.

A full lesson plan, presentation, worksheet and answers for students studying GCSE Physics or the Combined Science GCSE. It covers Work Done and gives exemplar calculations. The worksheet has differentiated questions that builds on students knowledge until they are able to rearrange the equation and calculate forces or distances.

A worksheet aimed at helping students to draw Free Body Diagrams. It also gives them the opportunity to calculate resultant forces and vectors based on information provided. Finally they get to draw vector diagrams to combine vectors to find a resultant. Aimed at GCSE Physics but also suitable for combined science.

RAG/AfL target sheet for the second half of AQA Physics 1