AQA A-Level Physics Required Practical 7: Simple Harmonic Motion | Editable Pack + Mark Scheme

A complete, structured teaching pack for AQA A-Level Physics Required Practical 7: Simple Harmonic Motion, covering both the simple pendulum and mass-spring system.

This resource is designed as a coherent learning sequence rather than a collection of disconnected worksheets. Students move through:

Diagnose → Investigate → Model & Test → Transfer → Connect & Evaluate → Assess & Synthesise

The pack develops practical, mathematical and reasoning skills through a range of deliberately varied tasks on the same core content.

Included:

Student Pack PDF
Teacher Pack PDF
Editable Student Pack in Word
Editable Teacher Pack in Word
Full answers
Full 24-mark assessment mark scheme
Pendulum and mass-spring investigations
Low-cost equipment route
No-lab data-analysis route
Graph interpretation and linearisation
Uncertainty and error analysis
Small-angle approximation
SHM representations using displacement, velocity and acceleration
Common misconceptions and teacher intervention notes
Fast marking feedback codes
Differentiation guidance
Practical safety guidance
Exam-style practical reasoning

The resource is suitable for use as a full practical sequence, revision, intervention, homework, assessment or as a replacement data-analysis lesson when practical equipment is unavailable.

Particular emphasis is placed on helping students move between:

physical system → measurement → mathematical model → graph → interpretation

rather than simply following a practical recipe.

Suitable for: AQA A-Level Physics 7408, especially Required Practical 7 and SHM practical skills.

Formats included: PDF + editable Word files.

Independent teaching resource. This resource is not endorsed by AQA.