Presentation to help students get to grips with friction and the need for lubricants - includes practice questions. Suitable for higher KS3 students also. Developing: Recall the definition friction and what direction is acts in. Secure: Explain how friction works and what causes it. Exceeding: Explore ways of reducing Friction.

Lesson designed to build upon students prior knowledge of electric charge. Covers the equation linking charge, current and time; introduces circuit symbols; building simple circuits; difference between conventional current and electron flow - includes practice questions for students. Ideal for AQA GCSE (9-1) P2, Cambridge iGCSE P8 and more Developing: Recall current is a rate of flow of charge and recall and use the equation I = Q / t. Secure: Use and describe the use of an ammeter, both analogue and digital. Exceeding: Distinguish between the direction of flow of electrons and conventional current.

Lesson covering phenomena of liquids and vapours. Condensation and evaporation in real life examples e.g. sweating and refrigeration, linking to kinetic theory. Developing: Distinguish between boiling and evaporation. Securing: Relate evaporation to the constant cooling of the liquid from which the particles have escaped. Exceeding: Explain the cooling of a body in contact with an evaporating liquid.

Lesson explaining the phenomena of latent heat and also how to calculate using E =mL - includes practice questions for students. Developing: Recall that temperature does not change during a change of state. Securing: Apply the latent heat equation to calculate the energy required for a change in state. Exceeding: Qualitatively assess the behaviour of particles during a change of state and explain in terms of energy what happens during a change of state.

Lesson to explore forces in balance, linking to terminal velocity - includes practice questions. Suitable for a higher KS3 class also. Developing: Recognise that if there is no resultant force on a body it either remains at rest or continues at constant speed in a straight line. Secure: Recognise air resistance as a form of friction. Exceeding: Explain, in terms of the forces acting, how the acceleration of an object experiencing air resistance varies during its fall.

Lesson covering the addition of vectors in a straight line and at right angles, calculating magnitude and direction of each force - Practice questions included. Developing: Recall the difference between vector and scalar quantities with examples. Secure: Calculate the resultant of two vectors by adding vectors that occur in parallel or at right angles to each other. Exceeding: Solve exam style questions using vectors.

Lesson covering all areas of momentum, including, calculating various parts of the equation including velocity after a head on collision and collision in the same direction; linking to car safety features. Developing: Recall and use the equation p = mv Secure: Describe the conservation of momentum and use to calculate mass, velocity or momentum in a crash situation. Exceeding: Use ideas of momentum to explain safety features.

Lesson taking a deeper look at thermal conduction, could be used for higher KS3 classes. Includes conductors and insulators and examines why conductors are colder to the touch than insulators. Developing: Draw particle diagrams to display the transfer of heat energy through conduction. Securing: Assess the different qualities of thermal conductors and insulators. Exceeding: Explain with reference to sub atomic particles, why metals are the best thermal conductors.

Lesson designed to introduce waves to KS4 students, contains lots of animations - includes practice questions for students. Ideal for AQA GCSE (9-1) P6, Cambridge iGCSE P6 and more Developing: Recall the meaning of the terms “speed”, “frequency”, wavelength” and “amplitude”. Securing: Distinguish between transverse and longitudinal waves and give suitable examples. Exceeding: Quantitatively analyse waves by applying the wave equation to real world examples.

Lesson delving deeper into longitudinal waves and sound waves. Contains lots of animations to help students grasp exactly what sound is includes bell jar experiment example and practice questions for students. Ideal for AQA GCSE (9-1) P6, Cambridge iGCSE P6 and more. Developing: Recall that vibrations cause sound waves Securing: Describe how a medium is needed to transmit sound waves. Exceeding: Analyse oscilloscope traces and determine which sound waves have greatest frequency and amplitude.

Two lessons designed to teach students what happens to light during reflection. Students learn how to draw appropriate ray diagrams and examine real and virtual rays - includes lots of practice questions. Ideal for AQA GCSE (9-1) P6, Cambridge iGCSE P7 and more. Lesson 1/2 Developing: Recall and use the law “angle of incidence = angle of reflection”. Securing: Recall that the image in a plane mirror is virtual. Exceeding: Describe the formation of an image by a plane mirror, and give its characteristics. Lesson 2/2 Developing: Recall the rules for image size and position. Securing: Locate the position of an image formed in a plane mirror. Exceeding: Apply knowledge of reflection and light rays in simple constructions for reflection by plane mirrors.

Last lesson in the series looking at how changing the amplitude and wavelength of a waveform will affect a sound. Also includes uses of sounds like ultrasound - includes practice questions for students. Ideal for AQA GCSE (9-1) P6, Cambridge iGCSE P6 and more Developing: State the approximate range of audible frequencies for a healthy human ear is 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz. Securing: Relate the loudness and pitch of sound waves to amplitude and frequency. Exceeding: Apply the wave equation to quantitatively analyse the differences between sound waves.

Lesson building on students knowledge of transverse waves, looking at the discovery of the spectrum, starting with infrared radiation. Also looks at the characteristics some uses of each section of the spectrum - includes practice questions for students. Ideal for AQA GCSE (9-1) P6, Cambridge iGCSE P7 and more. Developing: State that all electromagnetic waves travel at the speed of light in a vacuum. Securing: Recall the main features of the electromagnetic spectrum in order of wavelength. Exceeding: Describe properties and uses of electromagnetic radiation

Lesson building on prior knowledge of pressure in fluids, exploring the uses of pressure including manometers, barometers & hydraulics - includes practice questions for students. Ideal for Cambridge iGCSE P3 and more. Developing: Recall that the atmosphere around the Earth acts like a deep ocean of air that exerts pressure in all directions. Secure: Describe the simple mercury barometer and its use in measuring atmospheric pressure. Exceeding: Apply knowledge of atmospheric pressure and pressure in liquids to solve problems involving manometers.

Presentation to help students get to grips with calculating density and volume - contains practice questions. Suitable for AQA P3, Cambridge iGCSE P1 and more! Developing: Recall the definitions for density and weight Secure: Be able to use the equations for density and weight Exceeding: Predict whether an object will sink or float based on density data

Lesson introducing and explaining Hooke’s Law. Including elastic and plastic behaviour & the limit of proportionality - includes practice questions for students. Ideal for Cambridge iGCSE P3 Developing: Recall how to measure the extension of a spring. Secure: Explain the differences between elastic behaviour and plastic behaviour. Exceeding: Use the equation F = kx to work out the spring constant of a spring when a force is applied, and identify the point on a graph where Hooke’s law no longer applies.

Lesson designed to build upon prior knowledge of current, magnets and magnetic fields. Covers creating an electromagnets; magnetic relay switches; magnetic storage (CD & Hard drive) and circuit breakers - includes practice questions for students. Ideal for AQA GCSE (9-1) P7, Cambridge iGCSE P9 and more Developing: Distinguish between the design and use of permanent magnets and electromagnets Secure: Describe applications of the magnetic effect of current, including the action of a relay and magnetic storage. Exceeding: Explain how electromagnets can be used in the production of circuit breakers