Website displaying a random ‘What if…?’ style creative writing prompt from a list of over 200 at time of posting. These are mostly appropriate for any age from KS2 up, but they’re a bit off the wall in places and obviously it might be an idea to look in advance to pick one you like for your particular class/group. They’re often quite weirdly specific but open enough that they can take it where they want, come up with different causes for the situation (technology? politics? magic?), decide whether it is permanent or temporary, and think about what else might therefore be different in a world with this scenario. I come up with way more silly world-building ideas than I’d ever write myself, so I’ve been sticking them on a spreadsheet, and set up a website that displays one at random. There is also a link on there that takes you through to a Google Sheets spreadsheet that displays three random prompts at a time and refreshes every 60 seconds, if you want to see more prompts more quickly. The direct website link is http://expandonthis.blogspot.com

Short worksheet to prime students to think about how small boxes would physically fit inside a larger box, rather than simply work out the volume of each and divide to work out how many fit inside (which may not work if the boxes don't fit snugly).

Worksheet (2 pages) and Homework (1 page) (with answers) for Properties of Waves. Including definition of waves in terms of energy, difference between (and examples of) transverse and longitudinal waves, parts of waves such as areas of compression and rarefaction, wavelength and amplitude, and explaining the frequency and period of waves. A corresponding presentation is free to use and embedded at physics.mrhatchard.co.uk in Section 4 (Waves). Written for the Cambridge IGCSE Coordinated Sciences and Combined Sciences courses, but obviously a large content overlap with various GCSE courses also. This resource is the first in a series of resources on the topic of Waves and is being made available as a free sample.