Presentation to help students get to grips with motion graphs - contains practice questions and flash animations.
Developing: Recognise from the shape of a speed-time graph when a body is – at rest / moving with constant speed / accelerating / decelerating.
Secure: Calculate speed from the gradient of a speed-time graph.
Exceeding: Demonstrate understanding that acceleration and deceleration are related to changing speed.
Lesson exploring the states of matter and kinetic theory, touching on internal energy - includes student video task.
Developing: State the properties of solids, liquids and gases.
Securing: Relate the properties of solids, liquids and gases to the forces and distances between molecules.
Exceeding: Describe kinetic theory and state evidence that supports kinetic theory.
Presentation to support a ticker tape investigation of motion - contains practice questions, practical instructions/analysis/graph drawing and homework - suitable for higher KS3 classes also.
Developing: Conduct the experiment safely
Secure: Measure and record accurate results
Exceeding: Analyse the motion on the ticker tape
Lessons designed to build on prior knowledge of radioactivity and radioactive decay. Introducing and explaining fission of radioactive materials and fusion - includes practice questions for students.
Ideal for AQA GCSE (9-1) P4, Cambridge iGCSE P11 and more
Lesson 1/2
Developing: State the meaning of nuclear fission.
Securing: Recall the basic design features of a nuclear fission power station and the location of the nuclear fission process.
Exceeding: Recall the basic design features of a nuclear fission power station and the location of the nuclear fission process.
Lesson 2/2
Developing: State the main differences between nuclear fusion and nuclear fission.
Securing: Recall that fusion takes place naturally in the centre of stars.
Exceeding: Evaluate in simple terms why nuclear fusion reactors are not used to produce energy in nuclear fusion reactors.
Lesson designed to build on students knowledge of current and charge. Introduces electromotive force (e.m.f.), explains rules associated with voltage in series and parallel circuits - includes practice questions for students.
Ideal for AQA GCSE (9-1) P2, Cambridge iGCSE P8 and more
Developing: State that the potential difference (p.d.) across a circuit component is measured in volts and recall the definition of electromotive force (e.m.f.).
Securing: State that the e.m.f. of an electrical source of energy us measured in volts and recall that 1V is equivalent to 1 J/C.
Exceeding: Recall and apply the fact that from one battery terminal to the other, the sum of the potential differences (p.ds) across the components is equal to the p.d. across the battery.
Series of lessons designed to build on knowledge of current and voltage.
Introducing resistance; Ohm’s Law; rules regarding length, cross sectional area, material and temperature; resistivity; current-voltage graphs of a wire, bulb, thermistor and diode; practical used for investigating the resistance of different components - includes questions for students to practice.
Ideal for AQA GCSE (9-1) P2, Cambridge iGCSE P8 and more
Lesson 1/3
Developing: State that resistance = p.d. / current and understand qualitatively how changes in p.d. or resistance affect current.
Securing: Recall the four factors that affect the resistance of a conductor.
Exceeding: Draw and interpret circuit diagrams containing multiple types of resistance component.
Lesson 2/3
Developing: Recall and use the equation R = V / I
Securing: Sketch a current-voltage graph for a metal conductor and a filament lamp and describe how current varies with p.d. for a metal conductor.
Exceeding: Interpret the current-voltage graphs and explain the differences between the two types of conductor.
Lesson 3/3
Developing: Recall that as a wire increases in length, so too does its resistance.
Securing: Describe the qualitative relationship between the length and resistance of a wire and the relationship between cross-sectional area and resistance.
Exceeding: Apply the proportionality between resistance and length, and the inverse proportionality between resistance and cross-sectional area of a wire to quantitative problems.
Lesson designed to build upon prior knowledge of magnetic fields and electric current. Covers the motor effect and how to increase the strength of an electric motor - includes practice questions for students.
Ideal for AQA GCSE (9-1) P7, Cambridge iGCSE P9 and more
Developing: State that a current-carrying coil in a magnetic field experiences a turning effect and that the effect is increased by: – increasing the number of turns on the coil – increasing the current – increasing the strength of the magnetic field.
Secure: Relate this turning effect to the action of an electric motor including the action of a split-ring commutator.
Exceeding: Apply Fleming’s left-hand rule to determine the direction of rotation of a current carrying coil in a a magnetic field.
Lesson covering convection currents with animations to aid explanations. Contains real life examples e.g. fridges and linking to plate tectonics - contains practice questions for students. Suitable for higher level KS3 students.
Developing: Recognise convection as a process that transfers energy.
Securing: Use models to describe convection currents in real world situations.
Exceeding: Explain with reference to thermal expansion and density how convection transfers energy from one location to another.
Lesson to build on students understanding of refraction, detailing how to calculate the refractive index of a material - includes practicer questions for students.
Ideal for Cambridge iGCSE P7 and more
Developing: Recall and use the equation n= Sin(i)/Sin®
Securing: Use angles of incidence and refraction to calculate the refractive index of optical media.
Exceeding: Apply knowledge to determine the critical angle of different optical media.
Lesson exploring free fall and terminal velocity with a link to the acceleration equation and ‘g’ - contains practice questions.
Developing: Define what is meant by the term “free fall”
Secure: Recall the value of the acceleration of free fall and state that this acceleration is uniform.
Exceeding: With the help of motion graphs, describe qualitatively the motion of bodies falling in a uniform gravitational field with and without air resistance.
Lesson building on students prior basic knowledge of refraction and linking to light waves. Looks at various examples, paying specific attention to dispersion - includes practice questions.
Ideal for AQA GCSE (9-1) P6, Cambridge iGCSE P7 and more.
Developing: Describe an experiment to demonstrate the refraction of light.
Securing: Recall and use the definition of refractive index n in terms of speed.
Exceeding: Give a qualitative account of the dispersion of light by a glass prism.
Lesson to build on students knowledge of reflection. Shows many naturally occurring examples of total internal reflection but also fiber optics and periscopes.
Ideal for AQA GCSE (9-1) P6, Cambridge iGCSE P7 and more
Developing: Describe internal and total internal reflection.
Securing: Give the definition of the term critical angle.
Exceeding: Describe and explain the action of optical fibres particularly in medicine and communications technology.
Lesson introducing and explaining pressure calculating in solids and fluids - including practice questions for students.
Ideal for AQA GCSE (9-1) P3, Cambridge iGCSE P3 and more.
Developing: Relate pressure to force and area.
Secure: Calculate pressure force and area using the equation P=F/A
Exceeding: Calculate pressure in liquids by using the equation P = pgh
Presentation to help students get to grips with measuring length and time - contains practice questions and pendulum practical - suitable for higher KS3 classes also.
Developing: measure length using a ruler, micrometer and vernier caliper
Secure: calculate the period of a pendulum by using a stop watch.
Exceeding: explain why having accurate measurements is important and explain
what zero error is.
Lesson designed to build upon prior knowledge of current and magnetic fields - includes practice questions for students.
Ideal for AQA GCSE (9-1) P7, Cambridge iGCSE P9 and more
Developing: State that a current in a wire produces a magnetic field
Secure: Describe and sketch the magnetic field lines around a single wire/ loop
Exceeding: Explain the magnetic field pattern around a solenoid using the right hand grip rule
Presentation to help students get to grips with calculating speed and acceleration, also the difference between speed and velocity - contains practice questions.
Developing: Determine the speed of objects using the following formula: Speed = Distance/Time
Securing: Recall the definitions of speed, velocity and acceleration.
Exceeding: Calculate the average acceleration.
Lesson introducing the use of forces and turning effects like levers, including moments - includes practice questions for students. Also suitable to higher KS3 classes.
Ideal for Cambridge iGCSE P3
Lesson 1/2
Developing: Describe the moment of a force as a measure of its turning effect and give everyday examples.
Secure: Understand that increasing force or distance from the pivot increases the moment of a force.
Exceeding: Recognise that, when there is no resultant force and no resultant turning effect, a system is in equilibrium.
Lesson 2/2
Developing: Calculate clockwise and anti-clockwise moments using the formula: moment = force x perpendicular distance from pivot
Secure: Apply the principle of moments to different situations.
Exceeding: Apply the principle of moments to the balancing of a beam or pivot.
Set of lessons designed to introduce and explain how we convert different energy stores into electricity - links to efficiency. Suitable for higher KS3 classes also. Conatains many real life examples.
Ideal for AQA GCSE (9-1) P1, Cambridge iGCSE P5 and more.
Lesson 1/2
Developing: Recall that electrical energy comes from generators in power stations.
Securing: Complete a flow diagram demonstrating the energy transfers that take place in a power station.
Exceeding: Produce accurate Sankey diagrams that describe the energy efficiency of power stations.
Lesson 2/2
Developing: Recall the three types of fossil fuel.
Securing: Relate the different methods of electricity generation to different types of pollution.
Exceeding: Analyse the advantages and disadvantages of using renewable energy sources.
Lesson introducing and explaining what makes up atoms and isotopes - includes practice questions for students.
Ideal for AQA GCSE (9-1) P4, Cambridge iGCSE P11 and more
Developing: Describe the structure of the atom in terms of a positive nucleus and negative electrons.
Securing: Recognise the distinguishing feature of isotopes.
Exceeding: Apply knowledge of mass number to establish the identity of different elements.
Lesson designed to introduce and explain the various uses of radioactivity - including practice questions for students
Ideal for AQA GCSE (9-1) P4, Cambridge iGCSE P11 and more
Developing: Describe three ways that radioactive isotopes are used.
Securing: Describe why it is important to use small quantities of radioactive tracers with short half-lives.
Exceeding: Apply knowledge of radioactive decay to quantitatively estimate the ages of objects.