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Simon has been teaching Physics for over 27 years in British state schools and international school around the world. He specializes in International Baccalaureate, A level and IGCSE. He is now head of the secondary school at the British School of Tashkent, a Nord Anglia school and in August he will become International Principal of NAS Guangzhou Panyu. He is a regular contributor to the Times Educational Supplement and is one of their "Subject geniuses" for Science.

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Simon has been teaching Physics for over 27 years in British state schools and international school around the world. He specializes in International Baccalaureate, A level and IGCSE. He is now head of the secondary school at the British School of Tashkent, a Nord Anglia school and in August he will become International Principal of NAS Guangzhou Panyu. He is a regular contributor to the Times Educational Supplement and is one of their "Subject geniuses" for Science.

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Converging lenses and ray diagrams
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Converging lenses and ray diagrams

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Converging lenses, principal focus etc and drawing ray diagrams to find the position of images. Also includes a practical activity before the ray diagrams so students can see what the results actually mean. I have a running joke in my class about not liking dogs hence the questions on the worksheet. Please fell free to edit!!
Internal resistance
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Internal resistance

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Presentation, worksheet and practical activity for internal resistance A level or IB. Written by very experienced (26 years!) Physics teacher.
IGCSE Physics revision PODCASTS
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IGCSE Physics revision PODCASTS

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Revision podcasts for the first four topics in Cambridge IGCSE Physics (P1 Motion, P2 Matter and forces, P3 Energy, work and power, P4 Simple kinetic molecular model of matter). Ideal for this time of year, students can listen on their phones/ipods. BONUS formulae podcast. Students love this novel way to revise.
IGCSE Physics REVISION sheet
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IGCSE Physics REVISION sheet

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Mr Porter's amazing "Revise by writing" sheet. Students have to use 47 words to describe various pictures - convection, terminal velocity, latent heat, etc. Once you've seen the idea and used the sheet you can apply this to just about any topic (in Chem and Bio too).
Uniform circular motion
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Uniform circular motion

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Written for IB but could also be used for A level. Step by step explanation of orbital motion using a dog shot from a cannon (I don't like dogs! It's a running joke in my lessons). Includes calculations of centripetal acceleration etc - using angular velocity too.
Radioactive half-life
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Radioactive half-life

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Half-life for IGCSE based upon the authors recent artcile in "My Best lesson" in the TES. Full instructions and presentation for a top of the range radioactive half-life lesson. Feel free to adapt the Disease (MrPorteritis) that is running rampant in Warsaw (or your own town) to model radioactive decay using spreadsheets.
Resolution - The Raleigh criteria
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Resolution - The Raleigh criteria

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Written originally for IB, this can be used for A level too. Students are taken step by step through the Raleigh criteria and example problems. There is a practical activity and worksheet. Written (with humour) by a very experienced (26 years!) Physics teacher.
Specific heat capacity
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Specific heat capacity

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Lesson PowerPoint, worksheet and practical sheet. Written for IGCSE but suitable for GCSE and even A level. In the practical they can compare their results with the actual results and discuss why their results for the SHC is larger than the accepted value.
Latent heat presentation and question sheet
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Latent heat presentation and question sheet

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Presentation plus latent heat question sheet. The practical referred to in the presentation is the cooling of molten wax in hot water. I like to put the wax in a boiling tube in the beaker of hot water and take the temperature of the wax and the water as they cool to emphasise that the wax stops cooling when it reaches its melting point. This then leads into a discussion of latent heat followed by example calculations etc.
Science investigation - splashes
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Science investigation - splashes

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For any year - dropping water (using a pipette) onto graph paper and investigating the relationship between height dropped from and diameter. Presentation and activity sheet. This could then be extended to the students choosing their own variables etc.
Expansion presentation and worksheet
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Expansion presentation and worksheet

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This presentation is to accompany and explain the "standard" demos for this topic. i.e. ball and ring, breaking bar, liquid in flask with tube (thermometer), gas trapped in flask and tube etc. This is then followed by a worksheet where they have to describe various uses problems with expansion/contraction in everyday situations.
Models of the solar system
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Models of the solar system

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Written for year 9, traces the development of models for the solar system using observations of astronomical phenomena. Fairly comprehensive so could also be used higher up the school.