Calculations for AQA Physics Electricity. This uses the BUG and ISSR techniques to guide students through the question and maximise their marks. Students are given the need to know information before introducing the equation and how to use it. BUG = ***B***ox the command word; ***U***nderline key information and ***G***o through it twice ISSR = Identify the equation needed and what you are given in the question; Substitute the values into the equation; Simplify the numbers if possible and Rearrange if needed. This allows students to meet the new criteria of having to show their working for calculations to get all the marks. Equations covered are: E = QV Q= It V = IR P = I2R P = IV E = Pt

This is designed as the first lesson in the AQA P15 Electromagnetism topic. It is a practical lesson where the students carry out a range of investigations in order to find out about the properties of magnets. Equipment needed for the students: bar magnets; thread; plotting compasses; wooden clamp stands (if available) and paperclips. Equipment needed for the teacher to demo: OHP; iron filings; electromagnet. The three investigations are clearly explained and then there is a slide of differentiated questions. The final slides are images that may be useful in a class discussion about magnetic fields if an OHP is not available.

Three lessons in one to try to encourage active and independent learning. The challenge and race element to the lesson really engaged a bottom set of disaffected Y11 boys. Students complete one of the starter activities about braking and stopping; thinking and braking distances or terminal velocity. They then have to start with the one that they ignored in the starter for the main part of the lesson. The key points of information for the three topics are given in note form but students will need to use textbooks to supplement it. The make notes on each topic, answering the questions and then self-assessing them. The question and answer slides in the power point will need to be printed out onto different colour paper for the students to help themselves to during this part of the lesson. I ran this as a challenge whereby I had a results table on the board and students recorded their marks for the each of the sets of questions and a prize was awarded for the first to finish and the highest total score. Once this section, has been completed, the elasticity topic is introduced to the whole class before some questions are given to check that they can use the equation.

This was designed as an introductory lesson to radioactivity to a low ability group and covers the first lesson in the AQA P7 Radioactivity topic. Students are taken back to the structure of the atom to ensure that they are confident about the terminology of subatomic particles before moving on to look at the three types of radioactive decay. As a practical is not always possible depending on the policy about radioactive sources in schools, I found a virtual lab online, (link in the presentation), which allows you to either demonstrate to the whole class or to allow students to carry out investigations on their own. Tables of results are provided. Example data has been put into the tables on the slides to allow discussion. A conclusion is then written about the practical with students having to complete the core question and one other. Students are then given a choice of differentiated questions to complete the lesson. There are some extra slides at the end to help in discussion.

Theory and then active engagement for the students. Teach the theory of work and power and do some worked examples of the calculations. The questions will need to be printed onto different colour paper and placed into envelopes around the room. Working in pairs, students will need to collect one question at a time to answer onto their sheets. Once they have completed one of the questions, they need to return it to the envelope before collecting another one. This is a race to see which pair can complete the challenge first.

Revision summary for those students doing the new double GCSE (Trilogy) specification. Covers all of the information needed for the end of topic test.