I am a Physics teacher with over 14 years experience in a London day school. I have both academic and pastoral skills needed to connect with young people and engage with them on their journey to understand this subject.
I have examined for AQA and Edexcel boards for both GCSE and A Level.
I am a Physics teacher with over 14 years experience in a London day school. I have both academic and pastoral skills needed to connect with young people and engage with them on their journey to understand this subject.
I have examined for AQA and Edexcel boards for both GCSE and A Level.
This covers the whole KS3 Topic for current electricity with the following. This can be printed as a workbook, or pages used as worksheets. No other notes or worksheets are required if using this to cover the KS3 course. It includes practicals, theory and scientific skills. The electrcity mindmap can be printed separately on A3 for pupils to fill in for revision.
Current 5 activities with answers
Voltage 4 activities with answers
Resistance 4 activities with answers
Mindmap of the whole topic, blanks and answers
CURRENT
Conductors and Insulators. This includes a definition, space to practise drawing a circuit diagram to test items to confirm if they are conductors or insulators. A practical can be carried out and pupils complete 2 tables with items and materials, as either conductors or insulators.
Heating Effect of a Current. This includes a definition and the opportunity to make a fuse from nichrome wire to show the heating effect of a current as the wire glows read and melts. This can be a class practical or demo. This introduces the ammeter and pupils measure the current the wire melts at.
Current and Charge. The definition is introduced for current. Pupils are helped to draw circuit diagrams for series and parallel circuits. Pupils are introduced to the rule of current in series and parallel.
Current in a Series and Parallel Circuit. This allows pupils to calculate current in different circuits and gain more confidence with reading circuit diagrams.
Current in a Series and Parallel Circuit. The outcome is the same as above, but has extension circuits near the bottom, as the circuits are more complicated. This is a tricky KS3 worksheet so good for differentiation.
VOLTAGE aka POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE
Answers are included for all worksheets.
Other useful worksheets:
KS3 Electricity Current worksheets
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12979971
KS3 Electricity voltage worksheets
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12980749
KS3 Electricity Resistance Worksheets
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12988786
KS3 Electricity Mindmap Worksheet
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12662308
KS3 Entire Electricity Topic Bundle
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-current-electricity-complete-resource-for-current-voltage-resistance-12988815
KS3 Physics 4 Electricity Resistance worksheets include defintions, formula practise, practical, topic test questions and scientific skills.
The 4 worksheets are editable .docx files and a pdf, they have teacher’s answers at the back with suggestions about how to support the pupils.
Resistance. This introduces the definition and the formula with practise questions.
Investigating how the resistance of playdough is affected by the dough’s length. This includes a plan with blanks and a circuit diagram to complete. It requires pupils to measure current and voltage, and then calculate the resistance. They draw a graph and form a conclusion and evaluation. There is a reference to a website with info about the practical.
3.Past paper style questions on resistance based on the practical they completed.
There is an optional scientific skills page at the back, introducing random error and systematic error and reproducible.
Answers are included for all worksheets, with hints about common pitfalls.
Other useful worksheets:
KS3 Electricity Current worksheets
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12979971
KS3 Electricity voltage worksheets
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12980749
KS3 Electricity Resistance Worksheets
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12988786
KS3 Electricity Mindmap Worksheet
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12662308
KS3 Entire Electricity Topic Bundle
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-current-electricity-complete-resource-for-current-voltage-resistance-12988815
This covers the whole KS3 Topic for current electricity with the following:
Current 5 worksheets with answers
Voltage 4 worksheets with answers
Resistance 4 worksheets with answers
Mindmap of the whole topic, blanks and answers
This includes theory and practical sheets, no other worksheets are required as this covers the entire syllabus.
There are answers and notes to the teachers included for every worksheet.
current worksheets
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12979971
voltage worksheets
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12980749
Resistance Worksheets
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12988786
Electricity Mindmap Worksheet
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12662308
There are 7 worksheets on 11 pages for momentum calculations at GCSE. It contains a pupil worksheet with blanks and a teachers sheet with answers that covers the theory and practice exam questions for momentum, change in momentum, conservation of momentum for explosions and collisions, as well as a prosed based activity on car and cycle safety.
This can be printed as a booklet, covering 3 lessons and homework depending on how long your lessons are.
This is a standard format for physics calculations, to be used in class to introduce and practise each formula. These have been honed on lower set pupils and allows differentiation in the following way:
Page 1 Notes and examples completed with the teacher for momentum
Page 2 Table, allows pupils to practise using the formula and manipulating it
Page 2 Table, higher order skills for stronger pupils include s.f. and prefixes
Page 2 Questions, these get harder as you work down the questions.
Page 3 past paper question on momentum, including a vector question
Page 4 Notes and examples completed with the teacher for change in momentum
Page 5 Table, allows pupils to practise using the formula and manipulating it
Page 5 Table, higher order skills for stronger pupils include s.f. and prefixes
Page 5 Questions, these get harder as you work down the questions.
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Page 6 past paper question on change in momentum
Page 7 & 8 Notes and examples completed with the teacher for conservation of momentum with a worked example for an explosion and a collision
Page 9 & 10 Past paper question on conservation of momentum
page 11 A word based activity using the concept of change in momentum to explain how cycle helmets. airbags and seatbelts reduce the impact force on a person so there is less unjury.
There is a pdf version and a .docx version that is editable.
A great revision technique to go up a grade in Physics A Level is to memorise all the definitions. These are 1,2 or 3 mark wave definitions which will give your students the edge and it is especially useful for students who depend on their maths skills to solve problems, but it is difficult to derive an A Level standard definition during an exam!
The definitions are for:
frequency
period
wavelength
amplitude
longitudinal wave
transverse wave
coherent
superposition
phase
phase difference
path difference
Huygen’s construction
diffraction
standing wave
node
antinode
refraction
critical angle
total internal reflection
focal point
virtual image
real image
plane polarisation
ultrasound
infrasound
wavefront
intereference
This pdf is easy to make into a set of colourful flash cards, and having them around, as opposed to online, ensures students can use them for a quick starter, plenary or for a break during a long lesson.
The definitions are written to an A Level standard, double checked against mark schemes on past paper exams for the wave topic.