This KS4 AQA Required Practical covers the planning, carrying out and analysing of results with 9-1 graded exam style questions. It lasts approx 2 hours. The ppt carries the students through all aspects of the practical including hypothesis, variables, safety, fair testing, method, analysing results and evaluating the validity. It finishes with exam style questions individually graded to assess students. Resource includes: 30+ slide ppt to guide the students through the practical (with answers and examples) Two page student method/practical sheet that follows the slides Two page guide sheet (Required Practical Graphic Organiser worth £1.50 from my shop) based on IV Characteristics Apparatus list for technician Learning Objectives on each slide linked to AQA specification If you would like to see a FREE sample similar to this before you buy, the I-V Characteristics one is free here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-updated-i-v-characteristics-required-practical-planning-with-9-1-graded-questions-and-answers-12199364 If you want the FREE version of the questions only (my most downloaded resource) they are here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/physics-required-practical-worksheet-revision-11791358 If you want a bundle of ALL the Physics Practicals, click here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/all-physics-planning-practicals-with-graded-questions-and-answers-12227081 If you ONLY want the questions and answers, they are available as a bundle here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/physics-required-practical-worksheets-with-9-1-graded-exam-style-questions-with-answers-12199346 Please comment if you have found this useful. If you would like more required practical resources (or other science resources) free and paid, please check out my shop at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/stephenkemp193 Thank you.

This is a fun but educational Firework / Bonfire night resource aimed at KS3 and KS4, which teaches safety, flame tests, flame emission spectroscopy, energy stores, data handling and wavelength drawing. The lesson lasts approx 1 hour, longer if you do all the activities. It’s fun but educational. It contains: Technicians Notes/Ordering/Links to Hazcards Lesson Plan Answers to questions for self/peer marking. Student method and results table sheet Learning Objectives-related to the specification (just in case management suspect you are having fun for no good reason). (KS3/4) Safety Activity-Students are asked to suggest the precautions that need to be taken when carrying out this practical. (KS3) Practical-Simple flame test of 6 metal solutions (KS3/4) with method sheet and questions Energy Stores-Students have a fill in the gaps and a list of the energy stores to help them (KS4) Flame Emission Spectroscopy-This is a lining up activity, where students need to recognise which line is which metal. Asking the students to label each line with a letter to prove it (KS3/4) Waves-This simple activity asks them to judge the wavelength of waves to show the colour (KS3/4) Data-This activity is to test their evaluation skills using data on the metal salts they have just used and their inclusion in a firework.(KS3/4) Please check out my shop with free and paid resources at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/stephenkemp193 Thank you and enjoy. Please comment if you find this resource useful.

Updated with answers. This resource is aimed at KS3, but can be used with KS4 (and some KS2). It asks about key phrases and whether they are true or not in all or just some situations. This can be done as a whole class with white boards, or printed on sheets (on desks or around the room) and students add a tick on to show their opinion. It can also be fond as part of a Misconceptions in Science CPD package at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/science-misconceptions-cpd-12237121 I have now produced my first overcoming misconceptions lesson, it can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/overcoming-forces-misconception-of-normal-and-newton-s-3rd-law-lesson-12210726 For more free and paid for resources please check out my shop at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/stephenkemp193 Please comment. I hope you find this resource useful. Thank you. PS If you want some theoretical and practical ideas check out my free misconceptions in Science booklet at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/misconceptions-in-science-6442140

This is an another updated version of my most downloaded free Physics resource. Designed for KS4 and based on AQA working scientifically and AQA style exam questions with model answers. Not only graded but with extra planning! It is used all the way through the required practical, from planning, practical, analysis and exam style questions. This resource comes with: 32 ppt slide to project in lessons Word and pdf versions of the students sheet and question sheets. Answer sheets to allow the students to self or peer assess. On the top right hand corner of the sheet the students can identify areas where they need to improve so that teachers can easily see which section they are having trouble with. All other physics required practical sheets are currently being updated with ppt and will be available shortly. If you want the FREE version of the questions only (my most downloaded resource) they are here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/physics-required-practical-worksheet-revision-11791358 If you want a bundle of ALL the Physics Practicals with Planning, click here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/all-physics-planning-practicals-with-graded-questions-and-answers-12227081 If you ONLY want the questions and answers, they are available as a bundle here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/physics-required-practical-worksheets-with-9-1-graded-exam-style-questions-with-answers-12199346 Please comment if you have found this useful. If you would like more required practical resources (or other science resources) free and paid, please check out my shop at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/stephenkemp193 Thank you.

This KS4 resource contains worksheet questions (and answers) for all the Physics Required Practicals with each individual exam style 9-1 graded questions. It employs a lot of Maths, AQA working scientifically and AQA style exam questions with model answers. It is normally used at the end of the practical as a test/check of the students understanding, but can also be used as a revision/homework activity. It can also be used as a cover lesson (with answers). Students can also peer/self assess with the answer sheets and also indicate which part they found most difficult on the top right of the paper so that the teacher can flick through and see what needs covering again. It contains: Specific Heat Capacity, Thermal insulation, Resistance, I-V characteristics, Density. Light, Force and Extension, Acceleration, Waves in a solid and Waves in a liquid and Radiation and Absorption. For a free sample (I-V Characteristics) to see the quality, before you consider purchasing click here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/i-v-characteristics-required-practical-worksheet-12199364 For a Bundle with the Biology and Chemistry verisons, click here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/all-physics-chemistry-and-biology-required-practical-revision-9-1-graded-questions-and-answer-12227276 This is an updated version of my most downloaded free resource (see below for free version). The free version (just the questions on pdf) can be found at my shop at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/stephenkemp193 Please comment if you have this useful. Thank you.

This resources consists of photographs and exam style questions with a completed graphic organiser helpsheet. This is aimed at AQA students to encourage them to practice exam style questions on required practicals anytime during the lesson. The questions are specifically generic so they can be asked about almost any of the practicals and consequently they do not need to go next to any particular one, producing over 400 combinations of questions with images. The questions are colour coded for different levels with Red-Hard, Orange-Medium and Green-Easier (one could say differentiated, but one would be stretching the truth). Also included is the required practical placemat (worth a whole £1!) to help your students answer the questions on the display. Suggestions for Activities: I generally sit my students round the display and then ask them to chose a question and I (or another student) choose a practical or vice versa. Then we discuss the answer as a class or nominate another student or practical or question, (or stick them round my board and let the display soak into their minds through osmosis / diffusion or ask a question as a plenary) The set of images and questions can be printed smaller and students and given to groups of students who turn them face down and turn two over, an image and a question, which they then answer. This game works well and makes the question and required practical more random (like the exam). Font size is set at 80 pt so that it can be seen at about 10 feet away (Approx 72 pt per 10 ft of distance is the rule) I hope you find this resource useful Thank you for reading this far. Please comment. My shop with free and paid resources is at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/stephenkemp193

Updated to include a Chemistry version on Thiosulfate and a Physics based on IV Characteristics This organiser is designed to help students before, during or after the required practical activites. It is designed to be used with KS4, but may be used with higher ability KS3. It covers all of AQA’s glossary of key terms and working scientifically that links with the required practcials. It cover approx 40 of the keywords associated with the Required Practical part of the course. Terms covered: Accuracy, calibration, data, error, measurement error, anomalies, random error, systematic error, zero error, evidence, fair test, hypothesis, interval, precision, prediction, range, repeatable, reproducible, resolution, resolution, sketch graph, true value, uncertainty, validity, valid conclusion, variables, categoric, continuous, control, dependent, independent, risk, hazard and control. Included are an Animated Power Point where each box appears in order. A colour coded Power Point (for editing) and PDF version and black and white versions. There are three versions, one based around Osmosis to be used during Biology required practicals and one based around Thiosulfate to be used during Chemistry Required Practicals and one based around IV Characteristsics. To see a basic version of this (but with no examples) click here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-required-practical-graphic-organiser-placemat-aqa-12449119 To see how they are used check out the free Osmosis Required Practical (but with this resource taken out): https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/osmosis-required-practical-lesson-with-instructions-for-home-use-12181019 Please also check out the free IV Characteristics Required Practical (but with this resource taken out): https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/i-v-characteristics-required-practical-lesson-12199364 Designed to help students understanding of key words and as a help sheet to answer questions on the Required Practicals/How Science Works part of the exam. It can be given to students as a helpsheet/placemat when planning/analysing required practicals or as a homework aid/help sheet or placed on the wall as a large Poster(s). It is also numbered so that students follow the correct order when planning the practicals. More required free and paid required practical resources can be downloaded from my shop at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/stephenkemp193 Please comment. I hope you find it useful.

This KS3 Physics resource can be used as a homework, plenary or even cover lesson and has questions related to Energy Stores, Fuels, Renewable and Non-Renewable, Global Warming and Energy Transfer . It has over 40 questions linked to Bloom’s taxonomy and Multiple Intelligences. Teacher’s can set homeworks over the range of the topic or for in-class activities linked to ability and/or learning style, or let students choose themselves! It can also be used as a cover lesson where students choose the activity they wish. Also included is a Blooms taxonomy help sheet which can be stuck in the students books for help or photocopied onto the back of the sheet. Thank you

This is a KS4 AQA Physics GCSE revision set of worksheets which aims to reinforce what the students have done, through questions, calculations and written planning. It is used after the practical to check students understanding as a plenary/revision/homework sheet. It contains all the Physics Required Practicals in pdf form: Specific Heat Capacity, Force and Extension, Acceleration, Waves, Density, I V Characteristics, Light, Radiation and Absorption, Resistance and Thermal Insulation. This has been updated (now with grades on the sheet so you can see the demand of each individual question) with model answers. Check out a free version of the IV characteristsics to look out: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/i-v-characteristics-required-practical-worksheet-with-9-1-graded-questions-and-answers-12199364 If you honestly want to buy the improved set with two sheets for waves (solid and liquid) and is editable (take the icon off etc) on ppt click here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/physics-required-practical-worksheets-updated-12199346 For more free and paid resources, including the biology and chemistry versions please check out my shop at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/stephenkemp193 Please continue to comment I hope you find this resource useful

This is a GCSE Physics resource for KS3 and KS4. It follows the new AQA Science course. It encourages students to think about the power equation. The practical invites them to calculate if they are more powerful than a kettle by planning a practical and testing it out. Let the students find out if they are more powerful than a kettle, by looking at the Power rating on a kettle and then timing themselves (one at a time) running up a set of stairs. You will find that if you have a high mass (like me) you are more powerful then the students who can run up fast, but not in half the time. They will find out they are not quite as powerful as a kettle and they enjoyed the chance of being able to “run” when they are not normally allowed to do this. If you have found this resource useful, pleas comment and also have a look at my shop at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/stephenkemp193

This lesson is used to introduce Physics equations to students. It explains where they come from, how we use them, how to convert the equation into a triangle, so that it can be rearranged. It includes a sheet where equations can be added and analysed when they come across a new one. The worksheet can be stuck in their book and new ones added in when you come across them or used as revision activity. This will allow them to think about it before they use it. Enjoy! Please comment.

This is an activity and questions which explain how to use the spring equation (Hooke’s Law), and some questions based around how it is useful when bungee jumping. If you want to look at the Force and Extension Practical with Graded Questions, click here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/force-and-extension-required-practical-planning-with-9-1-graded-questions-and-model-answers-12225913 I have other free and paid for resources at my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/stephenkemp193 Please comment if you have found this resource useful.

This resource is aimed at KS3 and KS4. It outlines the different types of energy stores with examples of how they might fill up and empty. Please check out my shop where there are more free and paid resources at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/stephenkemp193

This physics GCSE animated powerpoint resource aims to show how energy stores fill up and empty to give a better understanding of stores and how they might shift. It is aimed at KS3 and KS4 students. Please check out other free and paid resources at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/stephenkemp193

These are the new energy stores which have been developed by institute of physics. They are to be used as information sheets to help students understand how stores fill up and empty. Please take a look at my shop where there are other resources both free and paid https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/stephenkemp193

This resource is a booklet with lists of misconceptions, strategies for overcoming them, and quizzes for ascertaining main misconceptions in Forces, Electricity etc. Update: Want to test how many Christmas misconceptions your students have? Try this new free quiz here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-quiz-free-misconceptions-12448241 It is research based, but written in a practical way and focuses on the use of models, analogies, CASE, interviewing and other strategies. The most useful part I believe is the lists of misconceptions and a comprehensive index of keywords to help you find the common misconception for that topic/keyword. Thank you for making it is one of my most downloaded resources. If you would like to look at my teacher toolkit for misconceptions click here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/misconceptions-teacher-toolkit-resource-12447706 If you would like to run a CPD on misconceptions click here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/science-misconceptions-cpd-12237121 A free activity to identify misconceptions in Forces is here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/identifying-physics-forces-misconceptions-12199581 A complete lesson using ideas for overcoming forces misconceptions is here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/overcoming-forces-misconception-of-normal-and-newton-s-3rd-law-lesson-12210726 Otherwise check out my shop for more free and paid resources at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/stephenkemp193 Thank you. Please comment if you have found it useful.

This is a reward questionnaire to ask students the best way to reward them in the classroom. The second sheet can be used generically so that students delete from their sheet the rewards that they don’t need or like.