Having taught in the UK and abroad, I've experienced teaching many different syllabi including SABIS, AQA, WJEC and Cambridge. I develop resources to help teachers model key concepts, provide practice for students and include answers to help students self-assess their work. Planning for a 27 lesson week can be stressful to say the least, so I hope you find my resources useful. Thank you for choosing my lesson/s, I hope they enrich your teaching practice and make your life easier.
Having taught in the UK and abroad, I've experienced teaching many different syllabi including SABIS, AQA, WJEC and Cambridge. I develop resources to help teachers model key concepts, provide practice for students and include answers to help students self-assess their work. Planning for a 27 lesson week can be stressful to say the least, so I hope you find my resources useful. Thank you for choosing my lesson/s, I hope they enrich your teaching practice and make your life easier.
Learning objectives:
Describe the difference between magnetic and non-magnetic materials.
Describe the interaction of magnetic poles (attraction and repulsion).
PowerPoint that covers the following learning objectives:
Describe how drag forces and friction arise and identify examples.
Explain the effect of drag forces and friction in terms of forces.
Explain why drag forces and friction slow things down in terms of forces.
Includes questions, answers, examples, explanations and a practical opportunity including plasticine, cupcake cases and water.
PowerPoint that covers the following learning objectives:
Describe what forces do and how they are measured.
Identify ‘contact forces’ and ‘non-contact forces’.
Simply describe what ‘interaction pair’ means and identify interaction pairs in a simple situation.
Use a newton meter to measure the size of a force.
Includes diagrams, explanations, practical safety, practical method, practical results table, questions and answers.
This PowerPoint resource provides an interactive approach to teaching the concepts of heat transfer, energy efficiency, and insulation. Perfect for secondary school science classes, it includes:
Starter Activity: Review key heat transfer concepts with targeted questions on conduction, convection, and radiation.
Big Questions: Investigate how heat is lost from homes and how insulation helps reduce costs and energy waste.
Detailed Explanations: Explore real-life applications of heat transfer, including loft insulation, cavity walls, radiator reflectors, and double-glazed windows.
Practice Problems: Include payback time calculations to analyze the financial and environmental benefits of insulation.
Interactive Tasks: Fill-in-the-blank activities, practical questions, and opportunities to reflect on energy-saving strategies.
This resource is designed to support student understanding of thermal energy transfer and encourage critical thinking about sustainable living.
This PowerPoint is designed to help students explore and understand the factors influencing specific heat capacity and how it can be calculated. Perfect for secondary school science lessons, this resource includes:
Starter Activity: Engage students with questions reviewing heat transfer concepts, such as conduction, insulation, and radiation.
Big Question: “What is specific heat capacity, and how is it calculated?” guides the lesson focus.
Key Definitions and Examples: Explain the concept of specific heat capacity with relatable analogies, such as why sand heats up faster than water.
Interactive Activities: Gap-fill tasks to reinforce key definitions. Questions analyzing materials with low or high specific heat capacities.
Calculations: Practice problems using the formula Q=mcΔT, with step-by-step guidance for solving specific heat capacity problems.
Discussion Points: Explore real-world applications, like why water heats up slower than metals and how mass affects heating time.
Plenary and Reflection: End with a plenary to revisit the big question and consolidate understanding.
This resource is ideal for supporting students in mastering thermal energy concepts while encouraging critical thinking and application.
This comprehensive PowerPoint resource (.pptx) is designed to help students understand the phenomenon of light refraction, suitable for middle and high school physics classes. It includes engaging content to explain how light changes speed and direction when transitioning between different media, like air and glass, emphasizing key concepts such as bending towards or away from the normal.
The resource features:
Learning objectives: Students will describe and explain refraction and learn to draw accurate refraction diagrams.
Starter activity: Thought-provoking questions to compare the angle of incidence and refraction and explore differences in density between air and glass.
Interactive diagrams: Tasks for students to complete refraction diagrams and visualize effects like the apparent depth of objects in water.
Real-life applications: Examples like why a pencil appears broken in water and the visual effects of light bending.
Practice questions: Designed to test understanding, with solutions provided for effective feedback.
Updated recently, this PowerPoint includes detailed notes, diagrams, and practice exercises, making it an ideal resource for introducing refraction in a physics lesson or revising the topic. Perfect for classroom teaching or independent study!
This KS3 physics resource bundle offers a comprehensive and engaging exploration of light and its fascinating properties. With six well-structured lessons, students will build a solid foundation in optics, from understanding light’s behavior to its practical applications in lenses and color. This bundle aligns with KS3 science curricula, making it an essential teaching tool.
The bundle includes:
Light: Introduces the fundamental properties of light, how it travels, and the concept of light as a wave.
Reflection: Covers the laws of reflection, with activities to explore how light bounces off surfaces and creates images.
Investigating Refraction: Guides students through hands-on experiments to understand how light bends as it passes through different materials.
Refraction of Light: Builds on prior knowledge, explaining the principles of refraction with diagrams and practical examples.
Convex and Concave Lenses: Explains how lenses work, their uses in magnifying objects, and their applications in everyday technology like glasses and cameras.
Colours of Light, Colour of Objects, Filters, and Dispersion: Explores how white light splits into a spectrum, how objects appear colored, and the role of filters in manipulating light.
How to use: Each lesson includes starter activities, engaging experiments, clear explanations, and review questions to assess learning. Ideal for teachers seeking to inspire curiosity in physics, this bundle makes light-related concepts accessible and exciting for KS3 students. Whether used for full lessons or targeted revision, this resource ensures a thorough understanding of light and its applications.
Lesson 1 - Light
Lesson 2 - Reflection
Lesson 3 - Investigating Refraction
Lesson 4 - Refraction of Light
Lesson 5 - Convex and Concave Lenses
Lesson 6 - Colours of Light, Colour of Objects, Filters and Dispersion
