Describe electrostatics and the concept of charge Know that static electricity is a build up of charge on an insulator Describe how to create and discharge static electricity Review and develop uses of static electricity, dangers and safety measures

Calculate the resistance of two resistors in series and in parallel. Investigate factors affecting resistance. Describe the variation of resistance of light dependent resistor (LDR). Describe the variation of resistance of thermistors and light emitting diode (LED).

Investigate resistance in circuits Discuss the effect of voltage and resistance to current Design an experiment and collect data to determine resistance Interpret experimental observations and data Evaluate methods and suggest possible improvements

Material for couple of lessons to investigate the electric current in a circuit. Interpret and draw simple series circuits Measure current using ammeters Model and explain how common types of components (cells, wire), affect current

Understand what centre of gravity is Design an experiment to measure the acceleration of gravity Evaluate the results and compare the experimental values of gravity with the theoretical value of 9.81m/s2

Investigate the spring constant of different springs Define Hooke’s law and perform numerical calculations Design an investigation to collect data and extract the spring constant from force-extension graphs Apply your knowledge about spring constants to real life applications

Moments and their applications Explain what moments are and predict which factors affect moments Apply the principle of moments to problems Identify the centre of gravity (or mass) of objects

Understand the idea of conservation of momentum Apply the law of conservation of momentum in collisions Calculate the force needed to produce a change in momentum in a given time Explain and evaluate the safety features in cars Material from Pearson Education has been used

Understand what momentum is Describe the factors that affect the momentum of an object Calculate the momentum of moving objects Material from Pearson Education has been used

Examine and apply the ideas of mass, weight and gravitational strength Distinguish between the mass and weight of an object Relate the concept of weight as the effect of a gravitational field on a mass and perform numerical calculations Apply your knowledge to design a device for exercising in space (zero gravity) (Differentiated tasks)

Understand the First Newton’s Law Describe the force of friction and evaluate if it is a useful force or not Relate the balanced forces to moving and stationary objects Predict the effect of non-zero forces (unbalanced) on the motion of objects Understand Newton’s first and second laws of motion Relate the balanced forces to moving and stationary objects Predict the effect of non-zero forces (unbalanced) on the motion of objects Apply Newton’s Laws of motion into numerical problems Material from Pearson Education has been used

Analyse free-body force diagrams Identify the type of forces Draw and interpret free-body force diagrams Calculate the resultant force

Investigate the extension of a spring when adding weights Compare the deformation of different materials Design an experiment to investigate the extension of a spring Analyze and evaluate the results of the investigation to draw conclusions about different springs (Differentiated tasks LA/HA)

Design an experiment to measure the acceleration of gravity Make measurements and calculations to find acceleration Compare your experimental results with the theoretical value Evaluate your results and suggest ways to improve them (Differentiated activity for LA/HA)

Design an experiment to measure speed. Make measurements to calculate speed Evaluate your results and suggest ways to improve them Apply your knowledge to explain how speed cameras work (Differentiated LA/HA)

Material for a few lessons to cover speed/velocity-time graphs. Used these for my observation - received very good feedback. Understand the difference between speed and velocity Recall and apply the equation for acceleration Explain/Predict how the speed time graphs look like Construct and interpret speed time graphs Illustrate speed-time graphs of different motions Explain what the area under velocity-time graph represents Calculate the gradient of velocity-time graphs Calculate acceleration and displacement using velocity-time graphs Convert the description of a journey to velocity-time graph

Understand what acceleration is. Distinguish between acceleration and deceleration. Extract the formula and apply it in numerical calculations.

Recall and use the equation relating distance, speed and time. Represent distance-time graphs of different motions. Construct and interpret distance-time graphs. Extract information from the gradient of the graphs.

Define scalar and vector quantities and give examples. Distinguish between distance-displacement and use diagrams to calculate them. Use the relationship for speed and velocity in numerical problems

IGCSE introduction to units, unit prefixes, conversion of units and extract of units of physical quantities from equations