Welcome to the world of Science Geeks! We provide fun, science resources for the busy teaching boffins that educate the young science geeks of the future! Spread the word of the geeks and catch us on our YouTube channel to enjoy our free educational videos.
Welcome to the world of Science Geeks! We provide fun, science resources for the busy teaching boffins that educate the young science geeks of the future! Spread the word of the geeks and catch us on our YouTube channel to enjoy our free educational videos.
Those pesky new Science GCSE specifications are full of challenging new demands. Dealing with prefixes like nano, micro, mega and giga is a major problem for students and teachers alike. God bless Michael Gove. I wish him well in his career. This presentation introduces students to the concept slowly and aims to build confidence slowly before introducing the new demands. Packed with theory, examples and questions, it is aimed at students of all abilities and contains Boffin Tasks to stretch the most able. ANSWERS to all questions are included in the presentation. Free online quiz too…
KAHOOT QUIZ LINK: https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/b3ca7c91-4258-47b4-a561-b92bb89f6bc4
Refraction and Snell’s law. This worksheet ensures that students are comfortable with manipulating Snell’s law and choosing the appropriate refractive indexes to use in questions. This double sided worksheet comes complete with fully worked answers! Ideal for GCSE and advanced level students for first teaching or as an intervention aid. It comes complete with a challenging Boffin Task to keep more able students off the streets. Enjoy.
It’s that pesky topic Specific Heat Capacity! This NINE PAGE presentation is packed with theory, activities and lots and lots of questions! NUMERICAL ANSWERS provided! Designed for pupils of all abilities, this resource is ideal for GCSE students or re-introducing the topic at A level. Enjoy! Science Geeks - making stuff so you don’t have to. Enjoy that extra freed up time whilst knowing your students are prepared for the worst that the exam gods can throw at them.
Electricity! Current in series and parallel circuits! What is current? What is it made of? How does it behave? What will the ammeter reading be in different places and different circuits. Ideal for KS3 or KS4 students, this worksheet tests students’ knowledge of these difficult concepts allowing the teacher to assess them and take steps to ensure further progress. Complete with answers, this double sided worksheet will stretch students of all abilities and comes complete with BOFFIN TASKS to stop the more able students from annoying you.
A presentation all about the concept of work done! What does it mean? How do we calculate it? It comes complete with a starter, theory notes, a science geeks video link, easy questions, hard questions, boffin tasks and practical activities. All ANSWERS to questions are included in the presentation to enable peer marking or self assessment. Enjoy fellow Science teachers!
Aimed at advanced level students, this worksheet tests students use of the critical angle formula. It comes complete with answers. I shall say no more!
Get to grips with the velocity equation, different units and rearranging the equation. Packed with questions and a Boffin task to keep more able students busy, it comes complete with full solutions to all questions.
This resource comes packed with FIVE activities where students are required to investigate the rate of heat loss from an object. They investigate surface area, volume, starting temp, type of material and the surface the object is in contact with. Watching water cool has never been such fun and students have to act fast in order to get each activity complete. This practical investigation comes complete with a presentation to lead students, activity task cards and complete technicians notes. Requiring simple equipment available in every lab it is appropriate for secondary students of all ages. Aside from heat transfer, it also helps students get to grips with the pesky concept of independent, dependent and control variables.
You can never have enough suvat practice questions! If your students can complete all of these questions they can handle anything. A top class diagnostic intervention tool! All permutations and situations are covered. Practice makes perfect! It comes complete with an ANSWER sheet to facilitate self assessment. (No marking in other words). Also available as part of an Advanced level physics Equations of Motion Bundle! It comes in pdf and word versions so you can take full advantage of the materials and modify as necessary.
The weird world of quantum physics and its conservation laws! Which interactions between particles are forbidden and which are possible? Welcome to the world of baryon number, lepton number and strangeness! Meet quarks, exotic baryons, cataclysmic colliders, marvelous mesons and brain twisting bosons. This DOUBLE SIDED worksheet is packed with questions to suit all abilities with plenty to extend more able students. It comes complete with a FULLY COMPREHENSIVE ANSWER SHEET. This is essential A level Physics. Many A level specifications have different requirements for this topic - this worksheets most of them and also allows students to stretch themselves with unfamiliar contexts that their specification may not specifically require but that may crop up in exams. Enjoy.
A fun packed presentation about Sankey diagrams, energy transfers and using Sankey diagrams to calculate efficiencies! This slide includes worked examples and questions galore. It comes complete with ANSWERS to all questions along with links to a free Science Geeks video, interactive revision resource and Kahoot Quiz! Literally hours of physics larks and laughter.
Efficiency is a key topic for students of all ages! Here is a slide packed with questions galore! It comes complete with worked examples and answers to all questions! From simple calculations to rearranging the formula - all abilities are catered for. Science Geeks - making efficiency resources so you don’t have to bother! How efficient can you get? Energy saved and not even slightly wasted!
Aimed at advanced level students, this presentation tackles Ohm’s law, use of the formula and combining resistors in series and parallel! Packed with theory notes, proofs and questions, it comes complete with all answers built in! Save hours of prep time! It’s all done for you. Enjoy.
Call them SUVAT or call them the equations of motion - the choice is yours. Here is your dream presentation, packed with worked examples and questions galore! Get those students thinking. Complete with numerical answers to all questions, this is a Physics teachers dream! Science Geeks - putting in the hard slog so you don’t have to…
Students move around a circus of simple investigations and answer questions at each station (simple technicians list provided)! The encounter lots of different forces and see them in action and try to understand if the forces are contact forces or forces acting at a distance. Magnetic forces, gravity, electrostatic forces, pushes and pulls and Buoyancy! Oh what fun we had! The worksheet for the activity is accompanied by a complete answer sheet to save you, my wonderful colleagues, valuable time. Word files and pdfs supplied so that you can edit or modify too!
Can your students find resultant vectors? Resolve them? Can they apply these ideas in standard Physics contexts? This worksheet will help you find out. Who is up to the job? Who is struggling? It comes complete with a comprehensive answer sheet. It comes complete in word and pdf versions for your editing pleasure. Enjoy!
Can your students use, manipulate and apply to different concepts the equations for calculating velocity and acceleration. This worksheet will help you and them decide! It comes complete with a fully comprehensive answer sheet (no marking)! Identify which students are struggling with these basic concepts and intervene before the difficult stuff comes along. It comes complete with pdf and word versions for your editing pleasure.
FATS (Formative Assessment Tests)! Short, sharp assessments testing students basic knowledge and key skills as exam season approaches! Warn them! Test them! All in 20 minutes! Complete with mark schemes these tests are quick, can be peer marked and give students quick feedback on where they are at. Complete with a no consequences STUDENT HONESTY BOX to fill in, students have individual communication with teachers informing us how much revision they are doing, how they are doing it and if there is anything that that they are having problems with. Each test comes with a RESIT edition if students under perform. There are two FAT tests here testing Energy, heat transfer, efficiency, S.H.C., cost of electricity, waves and evidence for the big bang. We'll miss the old specifications when they are gone....
Includes FREE revision video! GCSE Science and Physics - Resistance - a presentation packed with examples, questions and thought provoking conundrums! Guide your students through these differentiated resources., complete with fully worked answers and boffin tasks galore! Enjoy!
What is the motor effect? How on earth do you use Fleming's left hand rule? Why would you want to....and who the heck is Bil? All these questions and more will be answered in this example packed presentation with double sided accompanying worksheet plus FREE video. All questions come with fully explained ANSWERS! There is work to suit all abilities and the unit is suitable for the new GCSE courses and advanced level studies alike. Help your students get to grips with this difficult concept.