Powerpoint with activities to support the lesson.
Learning question: What factors affect the elastic potential energy of an object ?
Lesson content:
Retrieval starter questions
Demo activity to discuss energy transfers and factors that effect elastic potential energy stored.
Elastic potential energy equation, worked examples student calculation activity and extension questions
Plenary whiteboard questions
Powerpoint with activities and resources to support the lesson.
Learning question: How do we waste energy ?
Lesson content:
Retrieval starter questions.
Discussion of waste and how it relates to energy.
Student written activity.
Useful and wasted energy discussion.
Student Sankey diagram activity.
Plenary whiteboard questions.
Powerpoint with resources and activities to support the lesson.
Learning question: Do all moving objects have the same amount of kinetic energy ?
Retrieval starter questions
Video activity to discuss energy transfers
Kinetic energy equation, worked examples student calculation activity and extension questions
Plenary whiteboard questions
Powerpoint with activities and resources to support the lesson.
Learning question: Explain how an electrical appliance can have a positive impact on society?
Lesson content:
Retrieval starter questions
Demo activity to discuss electrical appliances and energy transfers in appliances
Tasks to accompany computer lesson
Discussion of appliances benefit to society.
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, activities and extension worksheet
Learning question: How much energy is transferred when a change in energy store occurs ?
Lesson content:
Retrieval starter questions
Describing the law of conservation of energy, systems and closed systems with a demonstration.
Student written activity with extension sheet.
Plenary whiteboard questions
Powerpoint with activities to support the lesson.
Learning question: What are the different forms of energy
Lesson content:
What is energy discussion.
Description of energy stores and energy transfers
Student written activity
Description and examples of energy transfers between different stores
Student circus activity
Plenary whiteboard questions
Powerpoint with activities and resources to support the lesson.
Learning question: What factors affect the gravitational potential energy of an object ?
Retrieval starter questions
Lesson content:
Discussion of gravity on Earth vs Moon
Gravitational potential energy equation, worked examples student calculation activity and extension questions
Student practical (measuring change in GPE)
Plenary whiteboard questions
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.
Learning question: What is inside an atom
Atomic structure discussion including whiteboard activities
Introducing isotopes
Introduction to ions
Questions and answers
Exit pass.
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.
Lesson powerpoint with activities to support the lesson.
Lesson content:
Starter quiz
Thinking about half life.
Describing radiation in medicine including tracers, gamma cameras and gamma beam therapy.
Student written activity with questions and answers
Introduction to background radiation and activity where students calculate their annual dose
Lesson powerpoint with activities to support the lesson.
Lesson content:
Starter quiz
Discussion of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Describing nuclear fission
Looking at uncontrolled chain reactions in the context of nuclear weapons and how much energy is released
Describing how nuclear power stations work and control fission reactions.
Class discussion of the ethics of nuclear weapons in the modern world