Hooke's Law - Springs Investigation

This is a lesson pack for my final official NQT lesson observation. In the previous lesson, I went through the method with the class, so they had it written in their books for this lesson and knew what they had to do.

The presentation has differentiated steps on what to do for the investigation and plotting the graph. It has a success criteria followed by a model answer for each part, which helped students to peer assess their work. This is followed by a list of WWWs and EBIs to help them give each other formative feedback and also a mark out of 11.

Research H/W opportunity for Hooke’s Law to link this onto the next lesson.

Plenary activity is to apply their knowledge from their investigation to exam-style questions. The document has two questions per page (one for each student) with the mark scheme on the next page. The answers to the previous questions are in the reversed order to help with printing double-sided. For this activity, students had the chance to answer the question first, looking at the mark scheme and understanding the question better. They then go around the classroom and get 3 other students to answer their question and they explain to them whether they are correct or not and why. There are 6 different questions, so students should be able to answer a question that is different to their own.

Final activity if there is time, is to spot the scientific and SPaG mistake on the statement on the presentation. Students work together in groups to identify the mistake and the answer is revealed. Fun finishing activity which will keep students very engaged at the very end of the lesson!