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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.
GCSE Physics Required practical 3b - Resistors in series and parallel
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GCSE Physics Required practical 3b - Resistors in series and parallel

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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 3b - Resistors in Series and parallel. 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. I have split it into 2 different practicals as that is how I prefer to teach it. They are 3a and 3b.
GCSE Physics Required Practical 3a - Resistance and length
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GCSE Physics Required Practical 3a - Resistance and length

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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 3 - Ohm’s Law. 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. I have split it into 2 different practicals as that is how I prefer to teach it. They are 3a and 3b. Now with results table for completion.
Circuit symbol Card sort
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Circuit symbol Card sort

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The common circuit symbols that students are expected to know for GCSE Science. These are produced so you can print them out, cut them up and have a card sort activity. Print them onto different colours of card and laminate to make a long lasting resource. Covers all the common circuit symbols, switch, cell, battery, diode, resistor, variable resistor, LED, lamp, fuse, voltmeter, ammeter, thermistor and LDR. Also suitable for KS2 and KS3.
National and Global energy resources lesson presentation and plan
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National and Global energy resources lesson presentation and plan

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A complete lesson for completing section 4.1.3 National and global energy resources of the AQA (2016) specification for Physics and Trilogy. This is a web quest based lesson where students work in groups either as jigsaw/home groups or envoys or pairs to research about different energy resources. Covers renewable/non-renewable resources and their environmental impact.
GCSE Physics Required practical 4c - Resistance of a diode
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GCSE Physics Required practical 4c - Resistance of a diode

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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 4 - Resistance. 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. I have split it into 3 different practicals as that is how I prefer to teach it. They are 4a, 4b and 4c.
GCSE Physics Required Practical 4b - Resistance of a lamp
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GCSE Physics Required Practical 4b - Resistance of a lamp

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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 4 Resistance. 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. I have split it into 3 different practicals as that is how I prefer to teach it. They are 4a, 4b and 4c.
GCSE Physics Required Practical 4a - Resistance of a fixed resistor
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GCSE Physics Required Practical 4a - Resistance of a fixed resistor

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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 4 - Resistance. 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. I have split it into 3 different practicals as that is how I prefer to teach it. They are 4a, 4b and 4c.
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 Required Practical 2 - Thermal Insulation worksheet
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GCSE Physics Required Practical 2 - Thermal Insulation worksheet

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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 2 Thermal insulation. 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.
The motor effect calculations
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The motor effect calculations

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A worksheet of calculations using F=BIl for the force on a current carrying wire in a magnetic field. These graded questions develop students ability with using then manipulating the equation. Suitable for new GCSE (2016). Complete with answer sheet.
GCSE Physics Required Practical 1 - Specific Heat Capacity
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GCSE Physics Required Practical 1 - Specific Heat Capacity

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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 1 specific heat capacity. 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.
Energy changes due to temperature (specific heat capacity) Lesson plan and presentation
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Energy changes due to temperature (specific heat capacity) Lesson plan and presentation

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A lesson plan and presentation to cover the energy changes in a system and specific heat capacity part of the new GCSE (2016) Physics and AQA Trilogy specification. Refers to required practical 1 - a FREE worksheet for this is also available from me, made from the AQA required practical document. Introduces specific heat capacity and then provides time for students to reflect on required practical.
Electromagnetic radiation splat
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Electromagnetic radiation splat

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An animated PowerPoint file that enables you to play splat. Have a list of questions where the answers are parts of the electromagnetic spectrum and have two students at the board. The first person to "splat" the right answer wins. Winner stays on is always a good game but you can rotate in teams or anyway you like. Excellent for revision of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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.
Trilogy Physics Equation test sheet
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Trilogy Physics Equation test sheet

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A sheet to accompany my FREE download of equations needed for Trilogy Physics. This is a useful test sheet that allows your students the opportunity to improve their recall of the key equations for Physics. This can be used as a look, cover, write, check activity or as a test.
GCSE Physics equations test sheet
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GCSE Physics equations test sheet

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This resource accompanies my FREE download of the Physics equations needed for the new GCSE (2016) for Physics. It is a blanked out version for students to complete. This is a great way for students to test, recall and revise the equations that they need to know. It can be used as a look, cover, write, check activity with the Physics equation sheet.