AQA GCSE Physics P4 Atomic Structure | 8 Lesson Presentations and Topic Test

Every lesson for AQA GCSE Physics P4 Atomic Structure, planned and ready to teach, so you get your planning time back. You get 8 editable PowerPoint lessons. Mrs Hayles wrote them. She is a science teacher and adviser who has taught this specification and trained the teachers who deliver it.

Built for the AQA 8463 specification

The lessons teach the P4 Atomic Structure content of the AQA GCSE Physics 8463 specification. Every lesson has a specification slide that names the AQA points it covers, so you can check it against your scheme of work in seconds.

What is included

8 lessons:
The structure of an atom
Atomic number, mass number and isotopes
The development of the model of the atom
Radioactive decay and nuclear radiation
Nuclear equations and half-life
Radioactive contamination and irradiation
Background radiation, half-lives and medical uses
Nuclear fission and fusion

The same clear structure in every lesson

Every lesson follows the same order, so teachers and pupils always know what comes next. Each teaching lesson opens with a Big Question and the key words, and every lesson includes a glossary. A Do Now starter retrieves earlier learning, with the answers on the next slide. The teaching cycle runs I Do, We Do and You Do, with a model answer after each task. Every lesson ends with an AQA-style exam question, its mark scheme and an exit ticket.

Assessment for learning built in

Mini whiteboard questions show you who has understood during the lesson. Pupils mark their own work and each other’s against the model answers. The exit ticket tells you where to start next lesson.

A topic test to finish the unit

The P4 topic test checks the whole unit with AQA-style questions, and the mark scheme comes with it. Both are editable Word documents with a PDF copy.

Easy to adapt and share across a department

Every presentation is editable PowerPoint, so you can change the examples, the Do Now slides and the branding to suit your classes. The whole department can teach the unit the same way, because every lesson follows the same structure.

This download contains the 8 lesson presentations for P4 Atomic Structure, plus the P4 topic test and its mark scheme in Word and PDF.