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I am currently a Teacher of Science and I have a background in Telecomms and Software Engineering. I can occasionally be found on BBC Radio Shropshire as their Science Teacher. I enjoy finding innovative ways to help students revise and have developed the Grade Gain app for Science revision.

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I am currently a Teacher of Science and I have a background in Telecomms and Software Engineering. I can occasionally be found on BBC Radio Shropshire as their Science Teacher. I enjoy finding innovative ways to help students revise and have developed the Grade Gain app for Science revision.
GCSE Chemistry Required Practical 5b - Volume of gas
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GCSE Chemistry Required Practical 5b - Volume of gas

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This has been produced as an extract of the AQA required practical document. It is designed to be printed two pages to a page and flip on short edge to form a booklet that students can then stick in their books. This is for required practical 5b - Volume of gas. The content is from AQA and the layout and formatting is my own. AQA may change the contents of their practical this is correct as of 20-10-2016.
GCSE Physics Required practical 4c - Resistance of a diode
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GCSE Physics Required practical 4c - Resistance of a diode

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This has been produced as an extract of the AQA required practical document. It is designed to be printed two pages to a page and flip on short edge to form a booklet that students can then stick in their books. This is for required practical 4 - Resistance. The content is from AQA and the layout and formatting is my own. AQA may change the contents of their practical this is correct as of 07-07-2016. I have split it into 3 different practicals as that is how I prefer to teach it. They are 4a, 4b and 4c.
GCSE Physics Required Practical 4a - Resistance of a fixed resistor
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GCSE Physics Required Practical 4a - Resistance of a fixed resistor

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This has been produced as an extract of the AQA required practical document. It is designed to be printed two pages to a page and flip on short edge to form a booklet that students can then stick in their books. This is for required practical 4 - Resistance. The content is from AQA and the layout and formatting is my own. AQA may change the contents of their practical this is correct as of 07-07-2016. I have split it into 3 different practicals as that is how I prefer to teach it. They are 4a, 4b and 4c.
GCSE Physics Required Practical 4b - Resistance of a lamp
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GCSE Physics Required Practical 4b - Resistance of a lamp

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This has been produced as an extract of the AQA required practical document. It is designed to be printed two pages to a page and flip on short edge to form a booklet that students can then stick in their books. This is for required practical 4 Resistance. The content is from AQA and the layout and formatting is my own. AQA may change the contents of their practical this is correct as of 07-07-2016. I have split it into 3 different practicals as that is how I prefer to teach it. They are 4a, 4b and 4c.
Quantities, units and their symbols for GCSE Physics
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Quantities, units and their symbols for GCSE Physics

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A handy reference guide for GCSE Physics students (not double award). This covers all the major units and symbols that they might come across as a handy lookup table. This can be used for memorising the units by using look, cover, write check activities as well.
GCSE Physics - Free body diagrams and vector diagrams worksheet
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GCSE Physics - Free body diagrams and vector diagrams worksheet

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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.
Chemistry Pictionary
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Chemistry Pictionary

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A set of Pictionary cards for Y9 chemistry. Covers topics such as burning, carbon dioxide, mass. A fun starter activity to get students thinking about the keywords we use in science. Can easily be expanded using the file as a template as well.
Work and power calculations worksheet
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Work and power calculations worksheet

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A worksheet of difficult work and power calculations. Students need to combine equations such as F=ma to enable them to calculate the energy and therefore the work done. All based on real life examples.
GCSE Physics - Hooke's Law lesson plan, presentation and practical worksheet
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GCSE Physics - Hooke's Law lesson plan, presentation and practical worksheet

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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.
GCSE Physics - Specific Latent Heat of Fusion and Vaporisation Practical Worksheet
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GCSE Physics - Specific Latent Heat of Fusion and Vaporisation Practical Worksheet

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A practical worksheet detailing a suitable practical for calculating the Specific Latent Heat of Fusion for ice and the Specific Latent Heat of Vaporisation for water. Included are results tables for the students to complete and circuit diagrams for setting up. The voltmeter/ammeter combination can be replaced by a joulemeter if you have sufficient joulemeters for class practicals. This practical is suitable for AQA GCSE Physics and GCSE Combined Science Triolgy Please see my shop bit.ly/TESncrumpton for further resources on Specific Latent Heat and other physics related topics. Thanks
GCSE Physics - Introduction to lenses and ray diagrams
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GCSE Physics - Introduction to lenses and ray diagrams

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A powerpoint that introduces students to the tips and techniques of drawing ray diagrams for lenses. It goes through formation of an image on paper using lenses, how to draw a ray diagram for a lens and culminates with image description. NOW: with added worksheet that is referenced in the PPT. Please remember to review - thanks.
Circuit symbol Card sort
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Circuit symbol Card sort

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The common circuit symbols that students are expected to know for GCSE Science. These are produced so you can print them out, cut them up and have a card sort activity. Print them onto different colours of card and laminate to make a long lasting resource. Covers all the common circuit symbols, switch, cell, battery, diode, resistor, variable resistor, LED, lamp, fuse, voltmeter, ammeter, thermistor and LDR. Also suitable for KS2 and KS3.
Power Lesson plan, presentation and practical worksheet
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Power Lesson plan, presentation and practical worksheet

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A complete lesson plan, presentation and practical worksheet about Power. Suitable for new GCSE (2016) any exam board (AQA, OCR, Edexcel, WJEC). Suitable get set activity and starter coupled with a practical that can be modified to suit the equipment you have available. Students need to recall gravitational potential energy and power equations to complete their analysis.
Trilogy Physics Equation test sheet
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Trilogy Physics Equation test sheet

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A sheet to accompany my FREE download of equations needed for Trilogy Physics. This is a useful test sheet that allows your students the opportunity to improve their recall of the key equations for Physics. This can be used as a look, cover, write, check activity or as a test.