This set of resources provides teachers and students with helpful summaries of the equations they will need to learn and use when sitting the AQA GCSE physics exams. Helpfully, the equations are separated by the exam paper in which they will feature. The simplified sheet is less wordy and more suitable for foundation students. The equation cue cards are designed for student use and will help them not only learn the equations but also how to re-arrange them. There are some student instructions on the final card. The sheets will also be of use to those sitting the double science exams as they can be easily edited to remove the few equations not needed by these students.

This is a fundamental area of science that students really need to understand well. There are two lots of sorting to complete in the Venn diagram activity along with a student worksheet to consolidate the key ideas. It's accompanied by a teacher sheet providing details of demonstrations designed to bring home the properties of gases.

The circus of experiments that students carry out is accompanied by a worksheet for them to record their thinking. The activity is designed to help students think more critically about ideas of heat and energy transfer.

Force pairs are a key concept in physics yet for most of the population, they are not intuitive. This resource starts with thinking about the forces that send balloons flying. It's followed by a circus of acclivities that provide cognitive conflict to help students understand where forces are acting, even if it isn't obvious. The activity is accompanied by a worksheet for students for students to record their thinking

A great context for some investigative work and a fun experiment to carry out. There are background notes for teachers along with a link to a great website. For students there is a worksheet to help them think through all aspects of the investigation. Ideal for keystage 3 students to develop their skills.

A lesson on the important difference between cause and correlation. The teacher notes give details of examples where there is a strong correlation but no causal link, examples which can be hard to think of on the spot! The presentation is based around air pollution and helps students to understand the key ideas. It can be followed up with the worksheet which includes many examples. For each example students sort the three options given into correlation, cause or no link

A teacher led demonstration activity to help students understand how errors in measurement are inevitable. The accompanying worksheet allows students to record the errors as they occur in the demonstration and then provides an opportunity to think through what they learnt.

These resources were written specifically to meet the demands of the P16 (space) section of the AQA GCSE in physics. Three versions of the same crossword are provided to ensure that students find it hard to copy from each other! A word list (list of answers) is also provided to aid weaker students. The word list can also be used alongside the wordsearch. In addition, there is a colouring in sheet to help students remember the life cycle of stars.

“Cut out and keep” credit card size revision cards to help students learn the equations that will be needed for the exams. The equations have been stripped down to a minimum to make them simpler to learn and remember. There’s one for paper one and another for paper two. Provided as pdfs and in word so that they can be edited if desired.

This will really help students understand the relationships between the different electrical quantities. Most students will need some teacher support to complete the double sided sheet and it's a great stretch and challenge activity for more able students. It would serve as a good introduction to circuit electricity at A level, allowing students to identify and correct their own misconceptions. Those teaching outside their area of specialism are likely to find it very helpful to clarify their own understanding of electricity.

This piece of practical work turns making a mug of tea into a quantitative activity. There are teacher notes along with an equipment list. The student worksheet provides a structure for students to record their measurements and support as they work through their calculations along with some more stretching questions for more able students.

Based around the sinking of the Titanic, here are three linked activities designed to support students as they think through the key concepts required to understand floating and sinking. Students will examine various hypotheses about the sinking of Titanic and asses their plausibility before putting together a scientific explanation of floating. The teacher notes provide guidance on how to differentiate the activities for less able students.

This activity is designed to allow the whole class to work together to produce one enormous graph. It provides an interesting space context for students to hone their graphical skills. Also included is a set of domino cards about the universe which complement to activity and can be completed by early finishers.

This model was developed to teach the AQA astrophyics option at A level. The teacher sheet gives instructions for how to build a "working" model of a CCD in a couple of minutes from simple equipment you will already have. There is a follow up cut and stick worksheet for students to complete which consolidates the key ideas

There are two activities here. The first introduces the idea of temperature by encouraging students to compare the temperatures of different objects in the universe. The follow up experiment investigates where the energy from a hot object goes and helps students to think through ideas about energy transfer.

Combining ideas about scale and ratio with earth science, this pair of activities gives instructions for how to make a 3D model of Earth that can be sliced open to see its inner structure. It is followed up with a paper exercise where students make a scale drawing of our planet. The worksheet includes some extension questions for more able students.

Two activities here; an introduction that models how the pressure in gases is generated followed by instructions for students to carry out the collapsing can experiment - one of the most memorable pieces of practical work if a little wet! A follow up worksheet helps students think through the science behind the practical work

A fun practical activity that introduces the idea about accuracy of measurement and using the appropriate piece of equipment. The teacher sheet is backed up by a worksheet for students. It is aimed at keystage 3 students but is likely to be useful for less able keystage 4 students.

This set of resources leads students through an entire investigation into magnetism. WIth the help of the presentation they choose their own question to investigate. The teacher presentation provides suggestions, notes and an equipment list.

Here are some notes and ideas for teaching forces to help students think through these important concepts. The teacher demonstrations are followed up by a student worksheet to consolidate what they have learnt.