I'm Kit, experienced Physics teacher, head of science and creator at GorillaPhysics on YouTube.
Visit my channel: https://www.youtube.com/gorillaphysicsa
Check out my high level resources and designed to support students through the grades up to achieve their highest possible.
I'm Kit, experienced Physics teacher, head of science and creator at GorillaPhysics on YouTube.
Visit my channel: https://www.youtube.com/gorillaphysicsa
Check out my high level resources and designed to support students through the grades up to achieve their highest possible.
For exam boards AQA, OCR, Edexcel, Eduqas
Objectives:
Recall the properties of waves.
Define longitudinal and transverse waves.
Memorise the portions of the electromagnetic spectrum in order from longest wavelength to lowest wavelength.
Activities:
Reminders of some wave basics
Slinky waves – transverse and longitudinal
Make an Electromagnetic Spectrum
Wavelength and Frequency
Complete lesson in a powerpoint.
Teaching notes from an experienced Head of Physics/Science and technician request in slide notes.
My Lessons also include settler questions, practical instructions, homeworks, exam style questions, video and simulation links.
Density GCSE Physics or Combined Science
For exam boards AQA, OCR, Edexcel, Eduqas
Objectives:
State that like charges repel and opposite charges attract.
Explain how objects become positively or negatively charged in terms of electron transfer.
Explain electrostatic forces with reference to electrical fields around charged particles.
Activities:
language and force at a distance
explore statics activities
Van der Graff demonstration
static vs current electricity plenaries
Complete lesson in a powerpoint.
Teaching notes from an experienced Head of Physics/Science and technician request in slide notes.
My Lessons also include settler questions, practical instructions, homeworks, exam style questions, video and simulation links.
Photons (Energy in and Out of Atoms) - GCSE Physics or Combined Science
Quantum!!
For exam boards AQA, OCR, Edexcel, Eduqas
Objectives:
Describe the process of absorption and emission of light from atoms.
Describe the photon model of light.
Use ideas about energy levels to explain how UV, X-rays and gamma radiation can ionise atoms.
Activities:
What, quantum?
Game time
Ionisation
Describe the photon model
Complete lesson in a powerpoint.
Teaching notes from an experienced Head of Physics/Science and technician request in slide notes.
My Lessons also include settler questions, practical instructions, homeworks, exam style questions, video and simulation links.
Energy Analysis - Craters Lesson - GCSE Physics and Combined Science
For exam boards AQA, OCR, Edexcel, Eduqas
Objectives:
Apply energy analysis to a new context.
Take measurements and calculate gravitational potential energy.
Use energy analysis to calculate a force.
Activities:
Simulation and discussion
Hypothesis and Method
Collect results
Analysis and Evaluation
Complete lesson in a powerpoint.
Teaching notes from an experienced Head of Physics/Science and technician request in slide notes.
My Lessons also include settler questions, practical instructions, homeworks, exam style questions, video and simulation links.
For exam boards AQA, OCR, Edexcel, Eduqas
Objectives:
Conduct a practical to gather accurate and valid data to calculate energy stores.
Compare energy stored before and after a transfer.
Use energy analysis to calculate a maximum speed of an object rolling down a ramp.
Activities:
Conservation of energy hypothesis
Collect data
Analyse and compare stores
Calculate speed
Complete lesson in a powerpoint.
Teaching notes from an experienced Head of Physics/Science and technician request in slide notes.
My Lessons also include settler questions, practical instructions, homeworks, exam style questions, video and simulation links.
Development of the Model of the Atom GCSE Physics or Combined Science
For exam boards AQA, OCR, Edexcel, Eduqas
Objectives:
Describe changes in our ideas about atoms over time
Understand how new evidence changes models
Analyse the evidence from an experiment to identify limitations and improvements to a model
Activities:
Cheese cutting thought experiment
Make a model of Carbon-12
Make a timeline of the development of the model of the atom
Exam style question
Complete lesson in a powerpoint.
Teaching notes from an experienced Head of Physics/Science and technician request in slide notes.
My Lessons also include settler questions, practical instructions, homeworks, exam style questions, video and simulation links.
Energy Stores and Transfers - GCSE Physics or Combined Science
For exam boards AQA, OCR, Edexcel, Eduqas
Objectives:
Identify some hazards of UV radiation and explain how we can limit them
Compare the uses and hazards of ultraviolet and infrared.
Explain the uses of IR and UV in terms of their properties.
Activities:
Fluorescence demo and discussion
IR demo and discussion
Comparing UV and IR
Explaining UV and IR
Complete lesson in a powerpoint.
Teaching notes from an experienced Head of Physics/Science and technician request in slide notes.
My Lessons also include settler questions, practical instructions, homeworks, exam style questions, video and simulation links.
A powerpoint revision memory excercise.
Summarising all of OCR A (Gateway) GCSE Physics and Combined Science Physics for Paper 2.
Ask your students to memorise these set explanations and use these as stock phrases in the exam.
I go through it here:
https://youtu.be/WHa4E3ewjbw
Matter, Particle Model and Gas Pressure Test (OCR Gateway P1, but also for other exam boards)
This is a roughly 40 mark test, including 10 multiple choice. Written by myself, with a full markscheme. It is a pretty tricky test in places but I think it accurately represents the level of challenge in the new GCSEs.
I think this is a perfect first test for your students to get up to speed with the new types of questions that they will be asked, including the higher maths challenge and the higher order analytical, and evaluative skills.
A powerpoint revision memory excercise.
Summarising all of OCR A (Gateway) GCSE Physics and Combined Science Physics for Paper 1.
Ask your students to memorise these set explanations and use these as stock phrases in the exam.
I go through it here:
https://youtu.be/WEHX2gO26Qg
A powerpoint revision memory excercise.
Summarising all of AQA GCSE Physics and Combined Science Physics for Paper 2.
Ask your students to memorise these set explanations and use these as stock phrases in the exam.
I go through it here:
https://youtu.be/k_m3mIGOGj0
A powerpoint revision memory excercise.
Summarising all of AQA GCSE Physics and Combined Science Physics for Paper 1.
Ask your students to memorise these set explanations and use these as stock phrases in the exam.
I go through it here:
https://youtu.be/_Y6H683OHGQ
This is a blank student tracker. It will compare to targets. Currently this is for OCR Gateway GCSE Sciences (and Combined Science). It would easily be adapted for any other GCSE course or subject.
Get a head start to A Level Physics! Three experiments that you can do at home to help you bridge the gap between GCSE and A Level Physics!
This is designed to set your new A Level class as a project over the summer holidays to help them bridge the gap between GCSE and A Level.
A Level Physics is one of the greatest academic challenges that there is, but you can succeed in it if, like anything else, you prepare well for it. These three experiments introduce you to some of the key ideas and techniques that you will need to be a success at A Level Physics. It is designed to be used over the summer between your GCSE exams and starting the A Level course, but could be completed at any time.
Each experiment has an introduction, some video guidance, a method and instructions to analyse the results. There are then some questions to get you thinking about the topic and the answers so you can check that thinking.
This would also be a useful study for anyone currently taking A Level Physics, or a similar level Physics qualification, or anyone aiming for one of the top grades in their GCSE Physics.
powerpoint revision memory excercise.
Summarising all of GCSE Physics and Combined Science Physics for Paper 1 and 2.
For all exam boards.
Ask your students to memorise these set explanations and use these as stock phrases in the exam.
This book is intended to help memorise the equations for AQA, Edexcel, OCR A&B and Eduqas GCSE Physics and combined science. The best way to memorise them is to use them!
For each page there are three questions, the first is using the equation as it is, the second is a rearrangement, third is another rearrangement with at least one unit conversion.
Send the students the PDF to keep on their phone as a flip book! Use the word document to remove equations for other exam boards if you like, or just send the equations for combined science to combined science students!
I deliberately haven’t given the working for each question, just the answer, so that you can think through the problem and then check you’ve done the working correctly. I’ve deliberately left the maths simple enough to do in your head so that you can quickly work through the problems, hopefully that equation will eventually seep into that permanent area of your brain where all your song lyrics and film quotes are kept!
Use this book instead of flash cards! So don’t just go through it once and then leave it! It’s meant to be flipped through time and time again until you know the equations and their units by heart!
This book is intended to help memorise the equations for OCR Gateway A GCSE Physics and combined science. The best way to memorise them is to use them!
For each page there are three questions, the first is using the equation as it is, the second is a rearrangement, third is another rearrangement with at least one unit conversion.
Send the students the PDF to keep on their phone as a flip book! Use the word document to remove equations for other exam boards if you like, or just send the equations for combined science to combined science students!
I deliberately haven’t given the working for each question, just the answer, so that you can think through the problem and then check you’ve done the working correctly. I’ve deliberately left the maths simple enough to do in your head so that you can quickly work through the problems, hopefully that equation will eventually seep into that permanent area of your brain where all your song lyrics and film quotes are kept!
Use this book instead of flash cards! So don’t just go through it once and then leave it! It’s meant to be flipped through time and time again until you know the equations and their units by heart!