Powerpoint with activities and resources to support the lesson.
Learning question: Who is the most powerful person in this room ?
Lesson content:
Retrieval starter questions
Discussion of what power means to students and introduce the concept of power in physics
Student written activity
Power equation, worked examples student calculation activity and extension questions.
Plenary whiteboard questions
Powerpoint with activities and resources to support the lesson.
Learning question: When is a process efficient ?
Lesson content:
Retrieval starter questions
Demo activity to discuss efficiency.
Efficiency equation, worked examples student calculation activity and extension questions.
Discussion of improve efficiency through streamlining and lubrication
Plenary whiteboard questions
Exit card
Powerpoint with activities and resources to support the lesson.
Learning question: What is work?
Lesson content:
Retrieval starter questions
Video and discussion of work done
Work done equation, worked examples and student calculation activity.
Student practical
Plenary whiteboard questions
Lesson powerpoint with activities and worksheet to support the lesson.
Lesson content:
Starter quiz
Introduction to activity with student practical to model it.
Introduction to half-life with worked examples.
Student activity with worksheet
Whiteboard activity
Lesson powerpoint with activities to support the lesson. Note the lesson order has been altered slightly compared to the textbook.
The lesson order for 7.2 and 7.3 has been altered
Lesson content:
Introduction to radioactivity
Introduction to alpha , beta and gamma
Demo of radiation properties
Whiteboard activity and student questions
SPLAT
Lesson powerpoint with activities to support the lesson.
LEsson content:
Philosophy of science discussion.
Description of history of the atom including Rutherford experiment and its observations.
Student activity, two types depending on level of class.
Lesson powerpoint with activities and worksheet to support the lesson.
Lesson content:
Starter quiz
How to write nuclear decay equations for alpha, beta , gamma and neutron emission.
Student activity with worksheet and extra questions
Whiteboard activity and quiz
Lesson powerpoint with activities to support the lesson.
Lesson content:
Starter quiz
Describing nuclear fusion
Exam question practice
Class discussion of the usefulness of fusion to humanity.
Note lesson content and order has been altered from the textbook to better match specification
Learning question: Can electromagnetic waves be dangerous ?
Retrieval starter.
Dangers an uses of UV
Dangers and uses of X-rays and Gamma rays
Venn diagram activity
Guess the X-ray quiz
Note lesson content and order has been altered from the textbook to better match specification
Learning question: How useful is the electromagnetic spectrum ?
Retrieval starter.
Card sort activity with feedback to discuss uses of the EM spectrum
Questions and answers (One set for Higher and one for Foundation)
Mobile phone radiation dangers activity
Note lesson content and order has been altered from the textbook to better match specification
Learning question: How does the emission of infrared vary between different objects ?
Retrieval starter.
Which objects are better absorbers/emitters of infrared with demo.
Questions and answers
Emission of light and infrared from objects of different temperatures
Questions and answers
Linking infrared to global warming
Opinion continuum
Learning question: How do I answer an evaluate question?
Retrieval starter.
Environmental impacts of fossil fuels.
Environmental impacts of nuclear power.
Tackling evaluate questions.