Plays by the same rules as popular children’s card game “TopTrumps”. A card game with sixteen different types of power stations. I recommend this to introduce or revise the GCSE power stations topic, it is very engaging. Make up a whole class set for students to work in pairs they will accidentally learn loads whilst having fun.

This quiz contains eighteen multiple choice questions. Students should have a gut feeling for the size of their answers. This quiz should help them to learn to self-check that they are calculating quantities with the correct order of magnitude. Contains a page summarising the answers and an introduction by way of The Hitchhikers Guide.

I used this to teach refraction at GCSE level, but could work as an introduction for A-level. Uses a tractor stuck in the mud analogy to aid students in working out which direction rays bend. This resource also includes a starter quiz, plenary and question sheets with answers plus a Snell’s law extension for gifted students. There is plenty of material here which could easily be cropped to tailor to your own class.

Atomic diagrams and the scattering diagram are enhanced with animations. A starter is included to test and recap learning on atomic symbols and isotopes. The presentation has a link to a suitable Youtube clip. The end of the presentation has questions (& answers) on the analysis of Rutherford’s experiment.

An excellent resource aimed at higher GCSE level. Contains differentiated question sheets with answers. Covers electron shells, names of ionic compounds, animated diagrams for two ionic compounds and two covalent compounds. Contains a worksheet and animated presentation. Recommended.

Students learn a visual technique to remembering lists of words. Testing before and after learning the technique will reveal a massive improvement. The brain is much better at remembering images than words alone - examples of applying this to academic subject matter are given. The presentation links to a video clip of a world memory champion describing his technique. This resource would be excellent for a whole year group activity or PSHE lesson.

28 materials multiple choice questions for Physics A-level with student-friendly solutions and extension work options. Questions from the particles topic are available as a free sample Also available 257 multiple choice question bundle for A-level physics first year topics

18 Thermal multiple choice questions for Physics A-level with student-friendly solutions. Questions from the circular motion topic are available as a free sample Also available 220 multiple choice question bundle for A-level physics second year topics

22 Nuclear multiple choice questions for Physics A-level with student-friendly solutions. Questions from the circular motion topic are available as a free sample Also available 220 multiple choice question bundle for A-level physics second year topics

Six splendid puzzles to display on your interactive whiteboard. These make great lesson starters and are an essential part of a teacher's toolkit. You probably already know the River Crossing puzzle. The puzzles are animated to make them very attention grabbing. No printing is needed; all the puzzles should be solvable without the need to write anything down. Very engaging and fun.

A complete lesson of notes and questions on combining resistors in series and parallel. Very carefully laid out slides - recapping from GCSE, deriving the series and parallel formulae, example calculations and a worksheet with answers provided.

This presentation was designed for a very successful interview lesson. The diagrams are animated and there are lots of AfL questions. A series of graded question sheets with answers are embedded allowing differentiation. Very clear and strongly organised ideas - recommended. Updated and expanded May 2022

An animated presentation on fusion and fission. A really interesting lesson with lots here to engage students. Suitable for use with GCSE or A-level Physics. Updated and extended July 2019

Newton’s laws are presented using fun and memorable animated images including Wile-e-Coyote and Super Mario. Included here are notes, a multiple choice quiz, a worksheet to use with the pHet interactive and two other illustrative worksheets.

A fun and competitive interactive whiteboard game in which two teams take it in turns to match tiles. An interactive whiteboard or two remote mice works best. The game automatically scores and has a built in timer in the event of a draw. Students really enjoy the competitiveness. This game won a Microsoft innovation award. Very strongly recommended for all ages. This template allows you to make your own interactive whiteboard games. Making your own game should take about five minutes. A bonus matching pairs pictures template is included so you can include pictures and diagrams in your games. Nineteen exemplar Matching Pairs Games are included with editing enabled to let you customise them. There are many free examples of Matching Pairs Games to try before you buy. Please visit my shop; https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/bennyjohn5 bennyjohn5@hotmail.com

A competitive interactive whiteboard game in which two teams take it in turns to match keywords and definitions. The game automatically scores and has a built in timer in the event of a draw. Students really enjoy the competitiveness, strongly recommended. This game won a Microsoft innovation award. A version containing an editor and picture pairs is now available to buy on TES resources. Visit my shop; www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/bennyjohn5

A differentiated starter on area and perimeter of circles with answers included.

Four in a Row games on six other physics topics are available individually from my shop or as a bundle at a greatly reduced price. Four in a Row is a game for your whiteboard. Nothing needs to be printed or prepared to play this game. The game-play is somewhere between noughts and crosses and blockbusters. Two teams alternate, competing to correctly answer questions on the grid. The board is interactive - clicking tiles changes the colours and also reveals answers. Radioactivity Four in a Row is designed primarily for GCSE Physics/ Combined Science courses but may be useful elsewhere.

Four in a Row is a game for your whiteboard. Nothing needs to be printed or prepared to play this game. The game-play is somewhere between noughts and crosses and blockbusters. Two teams alternate, competing to correctly answer questions on the grid. The board is interactive - clicking tiles changes the colours and also reveals answers. A FREE exemplar Four in a Row game on Mental Maths is available to try before you buy. Four in a Row games on five maths topics are available individually from my shop or as a bundle at a discounted price. The level of challenge is aimed at the foundation level GCSE exam. The questions are adapted from AQA non-calculator exam papers. A pen and paper may help some students at times.