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I am currently a Teacher of Science and I have a background in Telecomms and Software Engineering. I can occasionally be found on BBC Radio Shropshire as their Science Teacher. I enjoy finding innovative ways to help students revise and have developed the Grade Gain app for Science revision.

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I am currently a Teacher of Science and I have a background in Telecomms and Software Engineering. I can occasionally be found on BBC Radio Shropshire as their Science Teacher. I enjoy finding innovative ways to help students revise and have developed the Grade Gain app for Science revision.
Quantities, units and their symbols for GCSE Physics
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Quantities, units and their symbols for GCSE Physics

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A handy reference guide for GCSE Physics students (not double award). This covers all the major units and symbols that they might come across as a handy lookup table. This can be used for memorising the units by using look, cover, write check activities as well.
Specific Heat capacity calculations worksheet
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Specific Heat capacity calculations worksheet

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A worksheet of differentiated calculations for specific heat capacity. Start off getting students to calculate energy and end up with them rearranging the equation to find mass and temperature change. Now with answers!!!
Questions on Ohm's Law
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Questions on Ohm's Law

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A series of more difficult questions on Ohm's Law compared to resource https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ohm-s-law-calculations-worksheet-11280608 These require students to convert between common prefix units e.g. mA and the SI unit. A useful homework to set or use as revision or even as a class activity.
Ohm's Law Calculations Worksheet
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Ohm's Law Calculations Worksheet

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Exactly what it says, a few practice calculations using Ohm's Law for GCSE Physics. There is a worked example to start with and then students quickly progress to completing their own calculations. Useful as a starter activity or revision for students who are struggling with the mathematics behind Ohm's Law. This is a differentiated resource that enables student to develop confidence with Ohm's Law. For a more difficult worksheet please see this resource: Ohm's Law
Kinetic energy calculations
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Kinetic energy calculations

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Real life kinetic energy calculations for students to practice. Starts off with a worked example and progressively gets harder. There are also a couple of questions that require conversions from grammes to kg. Excellent introduction to the formula but also good revision practice.
Power Lesson plan, presentation and practical worksheet
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Power Lesson plan, presentation and practical worksheet

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A complete lesson plan, presentation and practical worksheet about Power. Suitable for new GCSE (2016) any exam board (AQA, OCR, Edexcel, WJEC). Suitable get set activity and starter coupled with a practical that can be modified to suit the equipment you have available. Students need to recall gravitational potential energy and power equations to complete their analysis.
GCSE Physics Taboo
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GCSE Physics Taboo

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Three sets of Taboo cards for GCSE Physics. These cover all the major topics for the new GCSE. Waves, Electricity, Motors, Energy, Radioactivity, Motion. A great fun resource for revision.
AC/DC Lesson plan and presentation
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AC/DC Lesson plan and presentation

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This is a lesson plan and presentation to introduce the idea of AC/DC. It starts with a game of "what's the link?" encouraging lateral thinking. It then goes on to detail AC and DC and the differences between them.
GCSE Physics - Elastic Potential Energy worksheets
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GCSE Physics - Elastic Potential Energy worksheets

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A pair of scaffolded worksheets that take students through calculating the force applies to a spring, the elastic potential energy stored in a spring and then rearranging the equation to calculate spring constant or extension. The answer sheets are also included with rearranged equations and units. This accompanies the work on Hooke's Law which can also be downloaded from my web shop Grade Gain.
GCSE Physics - Hooke's Law lesson plan, presentation and practical worksheet
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GCSE Physics - Hooke's Law lesson plan, presentation and practical worksheet

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A lesson plan, powerpoint presentation and practical worksheet for the required practical - Hooke's Law. This trio of resources allows you to teach a fully structured lesson around Hooke's Law. The students get the opportunity to practice calculating the gradient from their graph and then calculating the reciprocal to find the spring constant. For further Physics teaching resources please visit my shop Grade Gain.
Wave speed calculations
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Wave speed calculations

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A worksheet that takes students through how to answer exam style questions on wave speed, frequency and wavelength. There are worked examples followed by an opportunity for students to practice their skills. It reinforces the technique of making sure students show their working out and makes sure they remember the units. Comes complete with answers.
Half-life Calculations
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Half-life Calculations

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Worked examples of the three different types of half-life calculations followed by four questions to complete. Suitable for GCSE and iGCSE. Can be used for initial teaching or as a revision tool. Suitable for Higher Tier students.
GCSE Physics - Structure of the atom lesson plan and presentation
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GCSE Physics - Structure of the atom lesson plan and presentation

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Lesson plan, presentation and worksheets for a lesson about the modern day view of the structure of the atom. This follows on from the previous lesson about the development of the atomic model. It highlights relative sizes of the parts of the atom and introduces students to ions and isotopes.
GCSE Physics Energy, Charge and Potential Difference calculations
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GCSE Physics Energy, Charge and Potential Difference calculations

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A scaffolded worksheet of 10 questions to help students practice using E=QV. This worksheet takes them through how to lay out calculations and rearrange them using the triangle method. There is also a tricky question at the end that links back to prior learning using Q=It as well. Answers included!
GCSE Physics - Scalar and Vector Quantities lesson plan, presentation and worksheet
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GCSE Physics - Scalar and Vector Quantities lesson plan, presentation and worksheet

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A fully featured lesson plan, presentation and worksheet that introduces students to scalar and vector quantities. They learn about magnitude and direction and classify different quantities as scalar or vector. The PPT then takes them through drawing magnitude arrows and then how to draw vector diagrams from this. The worksheet gives them plenty of practice at drawing simple vector diagrams. For more Physics resources see the rest of my resources at Grade Gain
GCSE Physics - Atomic Theory Knowledge organiser
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GCSE Physics - Atomic Theory Knowledge organiser

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A knowledge organiser for the basic knowledge of atomic theory. It covers everything from strcuture of the atom through half-life to nuclear equations all on one A4 sheet. This is an excellent revision aid and can be used for look, cover, write, check or testing each other or many different uses.
Physics Equations to select and apply
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Physics Equations to select and apply

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A full list of the Physics equations that will be given in the exam that students must choose from and apply in a range of situations. This is suitable for all exam boards (AQA< Edexcel, OCR, WJEC). This is the list for the new Physics GCSE (2016).
GCSE Physics - equations to be memorised
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GCSE Physics - equations to be memorised

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A complete list of all the Physics Equations that must be memorised for the new (2016) GCSE exams. Both word and symbol format. This is suitable for all exam boards (AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC). A useful checklist to have at the front of student books to enable them time to learn them. More Physics resources available here GradeGain
GCSE Physics Required Practical 5 - Density
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GCSE Physics Required Practical 5 - Density

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This has been produced as an extract of the AQA required practical document. It is designed to be printed two pages to a page and flip on short edge to form a booklet that students can then stick in their books. This is for required practical 5 - Density. The content is from AQA and the layout and formatting is my own. AQA may change the contents of their practical this is correct as of 07-07-2016.