Y.O.Y.O. lessons - Scientific investigations designed to develop problem solving skills and make independent learners of our spoon students! In this one they investigate how the mass of a ramp affects friction between it and another surface! Dragging wood blocks slowly in other words! Students must complete the set task without any help whatsoever from their teachers. They have only the worksheet to help them. They can only ask you a question if they use a joker card! (They have three of them - one specific question per Joker). Complete it without using jokers and win rewards! Character building for both staff and students and an excellent lesson to use for formal observations and OFSTED invasions. This is how real scientists are made. The resource comes with a set of joker cards, a worksheet for the lesson and a teacher guide with the YOYO rules as a PowerPoint. Enjoy!

Complete with a FREE video! This comprehensive worksheet will test your students understanding of ionising radiation. Alpha, Beta and gamma are covered plus positron decay and neutron emission. It comes with fully comprehensive answer sheet! Decay equations galore and problems for all abilities at a bargain price!

Advance level Physics teachers rejoice! Here is a double sided worksheet packed with newtonian dynamics problems. It starts off with some simple questions before taxing students’ brains with situations involving inclined planes, mad scientists in lifts (elevators to our north american chums) and runaway hospital beds. It is all rounded off with a fiendishly hard extension task to keep even your brightest of students off your backs, I mean engaged. Complete with FULLY SOLVED ANSWERS, you don’t even have to bother marking it yourself. It’s tough being a teacher in the modern world. Ease your work load whilst ensuring student progress. Science Geeks, here to help! Enjoy!

You can never have enough suvat practice questions! If your students can complete all of these questions they can handle anything. A top class diagnostic intervention tool! All permutations and situations are covered. Practice makes perfect! It comes complete with an ANSWER sheet to facilitate self assessment. (No marking in other words). Also available as part of an Advanced level physics Equations of Motion Bundle! It comes in pdf and word versions so you can take full advantage of the materials and modify as necessary.

Can your students use, manipulate and apply to different concepts the equations for calculating velocity and acceleration. This worksheet will help you and them decide! It comes complete with a fully comprehensive answer sheet (no marking)! Identify which students are struggling with these basic concepts and intervene before the difficult stuff comes along. It comes complete with pdf and word versions for your editing pleasure.

Conservation of energy! A bright, thought provoking, visual mind map poster and learning aid all about the energy transfers that are happening all around us! It comes with a challenging worksheet designed to stretch students across the ability range. There is also an accompanying 10 minute Science Geeks YouTube video available that provides students (and teachers) with all the basic knowledge they need to know. I have included both a word and a pdf version. All images, photos and graphics are made or taken by M.E.Prince (that’s me!). No copyright issues.

A DOUBLE SIDED worksheet ideal for KS3 students of all abilities or weaker KS4 students! The worksheet has questions on representing sound waves as diagrams, human and animal hearing ranges and the speed of sound in different materials. Ideal as an end of topic revision resource, it comes complete with a SCIENCE GEEKS sound video for flipped learning and/or revising this topic.

A simple presentation showing young science geeks how to calculate acceleration using worked examples with some simple questions to follow. THEORY and ANSWERS included along withe a link to a FREE SCIENCE GEEKS VIDEO! Enjoy!

Conservation of energy used to be a fun, easily accessible topic. Not any more! The new model introduced several years ago is fiendishly difficult to implement in everyday lessons and situation! Fret no more! This comprehensive worksheet and free video is packed with questions and challenges. All resources come with in depth answers. This is an ideal resource to deal with this difficult topic.

Aimed at younger students to increase their confidence with constructing simple circuits! It comes in the form of a power point presentation packed with simple practical activities requiring students to build and investigate simple series and parallel circuits. From using ammeters and voltmeters, investigating the effect of increasing bulbs and cells to challenging extension tasks requiring students to build circuits which perform a specific function. It also encourages the use of the key investigative terms, Literally hours of practical fun! The equipment required are connecting wires, batteries, bulbs, ammeters and voltmeters.

Refraction and Snell’s law. This worksheet ensures that students are comfortable with manipulating Snell’s law and choosing the appropriate refractive indexes to use in questions. This double sided worksheet comes complete with fully worked answers! Ideal for GCSE and advanced level students for first teaching or as an intervention aid. It comes complete with a challenging Boffin Task to keep more able students off the streets. Enjoy.

Conservation of energy used to be a fun, easily accessible topic. Not any more! The new model introduced several years ago is fiendishly difficult to implement in everyday lessons and situation! Fret no more! This comprehensive sixteen slide presentation and free video is packed with theory, questions and challenges. All resources come with in depth answers. This is an ideal resource to deal with this difficult topic.

The Science Geeks present a powerful worksheet packed with questions and plenty of work for your students to get through. (See what I did there? I’ll get my coat…). Practice using the key skills and equations needed to get to grips with this difficult concept. Complete with full solutions to all questions, this resource is useful as a revision tool for this often overlooked topic and a useful AFL exercise to assess students understanding. With plenty of tasks to extend your brighter students, differentiation is taken care of. A FREE Science Geeks video on Work done; can also viewed before attempting this. Enjoy! Science Geeks - making worksheets so you don’t have to… https://youtu.be/bMsKIfxliA4

Those pesky independent, dependent and control variables? Are they continuous or categoric? Which are the ones you keep the same? Has there ever been a concept that students get so confused about again and again? This presentation is packed with exercises in order to test that knowledge and formativelz deal with misconceptions. Ideal to use in a focused one off lesson, or as a tool for surprise plenaries or starters over a longer period of time, the slides here contain real life investigations and data and test students graph plotting skills and planning as well. Essential for all budding scientists! Let us solve this problem once and for all.

A worksheet packed with resistivity questions designed for A level students of all abilities! It comes COMPLETE WITH ANSWERS to all questions to encourage self assessment or simply to reduce your marking burden. Students will have to be happy with converting units, manipulating the formula and determining resistivity through practical methods before use and extension tasks are provided for those pesky more able students. Enjoy (for a small price)! It comes as a pdf file or as a word version if you want to pretend that you made it yourself.

The weird world of quantum physics and its conservation laws! Which interactions between particles are forbidden and which are possible? Welcome to the world of baryon number, lepton number and strangeness! Meet quarks, exotic baryons, cataclysmic colliders, marvelous mesons and brain twisting bosons. This DOUBLE SIDED worksheet is packed with questions to suit all abilities with plenty to extend more able students. It comes complete with a FULLY COMPREHENSIVE ANSWER SHEET. This is essential A level Physics. Many A level specifications have different requirements for this topic - this worksheets most of them and also allows students to stretch themselves with unfamiliar contexts that their specification may not specifically require but that may crop up in exams. Enjoy.

Watch kettles boil! Live! This set of resources requires students to investigate a range of different kettles and calculate their efficiency. Which kettle is the most efficient? What is the science behind their design features? There are TWO versions of the DOUBLE SIDED WORKSHEET. The most challenging version gives students some useful information and then the rest is up to them! There is also a HELP sheet with step by step instructions to help weaker students carry out the investigation. Packed with extension tasks and questions designed to make students think, this activity can be ran over several lessons! Just remember to provide a variety of different shapes, sizes and ages of kettles. ideal for KS3 or GCSE or even ALEVEL! (TOP TIP: To save time, students can be required to investigate one kettle each and then pool their results.)

A worksheet packed with questions to suit all abilities on the subject of motion and balanced and unbalanced forces. From simple force diagrams to terminal velocity and maximum speed of cars, this is the ideal resource to consolidate student knowledge and test understanding of these key concepts. Aimed at ks3 students or year 11 students, it serves as a qualitative introduction to resultant forces and their effect on the motion of everyday, and some not everyday, objects. Challenging extension tasks are provided for more able students. Enjoy. A Science Geeks video included too!

This DOUBLE SIDED worksheet asks students to think about and predict how current behaves in series and parallel electrical circuits and then gives them the methods to do just that. On completing the experiments the worksheet summarises the key information and tests its application. Ideal for KS3 or KS4 students. It comes complete with demanding extension tasks to keep those pesky able kids off the streets and occupied.

Th e tricky topic of energy levels in Physics. The resource comes with comprehensive notes for students for self study or revision plus TWO worksheets of energy level questions to test their understanding. Complete with answers, this essential resource will ensure that your students are exam ready.