My lessons are comprehensive, well organised and promote high levels of pupil engagement. They contain a high number of challenge tasks that are built into the lesson resources to stretch even the most able.
I have also started an Instagram flash card account that pupils can follow for physics revision as they scroll. The account is called physicsflash
My lessons are comprehensive, well organised and promote high levels of pupil engagement. They contain a high number of challenge tasks that are built into the lesson resources to stretch even the most able.
I have also started an Instagram flash card account that pupils can follow for physics revision as they scroll. The account is called physicsflash
Full Lesson PowerPoint and resources to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Physics lesson on Electrons and Orbits . It covers electrons changing orbit, ionisation and focusses on evidence for the Bohr model of the atom - atoms absorbing and emitting energy. This includes absorption and emission spectra.
Note: this may take 2 lessons if you are doing the practical.
The resource is appropriate for Triple and Combined Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.
You can download the FREE resource “GCSE Physics EDEXCEL 9-1 SP6 & CP6 Radioactivity Lesson outline and equipment list” for this topic from my TES shop. The FREE sample lesson “GCSE Physics Energy Stores and Transfers FULL LESSON (Edexcel 9-1 CP3a SP3a) Conservation of Energy” is also available to download from my TES shop.
PowerPoint presentation to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Physics Core Practical on Investigating Water. It includes equipment, an introduction to the Core Practical and information on how to collect and analyse the required data. Answers to Qs also included.
The resource is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.
The FREE sample lesson “GCSE Physics Energy Stores and Transfers full lesson (Edexcel 9-1 CP3a SP3a) Conservation of Energy” is available to download from my TES shop.
Full Lesson PowerPoint to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Physics lesson on Energy and Changes of State. It covers thermal energy and temperature, reducing unwanted energy transfer by thermal insulation, how the temperature of an object changes with time while being heated/cooled to make it change state, how heating affects the particles, specific heat capacity and specific latent heat.
The resource is appropriate for Triple and Combined Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.
The FREE sample lesson “GCSE Physics Energy Stores and Transfers FULL LESSON (Edexcel 9-1 CP3a SP3a) Conservation of Energy” is also available to download from my TES shop.
Full Lesson PowerPoint to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Physics lesson on Objects affecting each other. It covers contact and non-contact forces, the effect of a gravitational, magnetic and electrostatic fields on objects, how pairs of forces occur when objects affect each other and recaps vectors and scalars.
Some of this is a recap from SP1/CP1 as it is needed for both paper 1 and paper 2.
The resource is appropriate for Triple and Combined Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.
The FREE sample lesson “GCSE Physics Energy Stores and Transfers FULL LESSON (Edexcel 9-1 CP3a SP3a) Conservation of Energy” is also available to download from my TES shop.
Full Lesson PowerPoint and resources to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Physics lesson on Braking Distance and Energy. It covers describing the factors that affect the kinetic energy of a moving object and explain what ‘work done’ means, calculating work done, calculating the kinetic energy of a moving object and estimating the braking distance of a road vehicle given its mass, speed and braking force. It also looks at combining the KE and Work done equations to calculate braking distance.
The resource is appropriate for Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.
You can also download the FREE resources “GCSE Physics EDEXCEL 9-1 SP2 & CP2 Forces and Motion Lesson outline and equipment list” for this topic from my TES shop.
The FREE sample lesson “GCSE Physics Energy Stores and Transfers FULL LESSON (Edexcel 9-1 CP3a SP3a) Conservation of Energy” is also available to download from my TES shop.
Full Lesson PowerPoint and resources to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Physics lesson on Origin of the Universe. It covers comparing the Steady State and Big Bang theories and explaining why the Big Bang theory is the currently accepted model using the evidence supporting the Big Bang. Explaining the significance of CMB discovery and how both theories of the origin of the Universe account for red-shift.
The resource is appropriate for Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.
You can download the FREE resource “GCSE Physics SP7 Astronomy Lesson outline and equipment list EDEXCEL 9-1 Triple Science” for this topic from my TES shop.
The FREE sample lesson “GCSE Physics Energy Stores and Transfers FULL LESSON (Edexcel 9-1 CP3a SP3a) Conservation of Energy” is also available to download from my TES shop.
Full Lesson PowerPoint and resources to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Physics lesson on Radiation & Temperature . It covers how the intensity and wavelength of emitted radiation depends on the temperature of the body, explaining that the power radiated and absorbed must be the same to maintain a body at a constant temperature and what happens when it is not balanced, factors that affect the energy absorbed and radiated and explaining how these factors affect the temperature of the Earth.
The resource is appropriate for Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers. (Note: the order and coding for combined and triple science are different for Topic 5, this is lesson 7 for Triple classes and is not needed in the combined science specification).
You can also download the FREE resource “GCSE Physics SP5 Light and EM Spectrum Lesson outline and equipment list EDEXCEL 9-1” for this topic from my TES shop, which shows the differences between combined and triple science lessons for this topic.
The FREE sample lesson “GCSE Physics Energy Stores and Transfers FULL LESSON (Edexcel 9-1 CP3a SP3a) Conservation of Energy” is also available to download from my TES shop.
Full Lesson PowerPoint and resources to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Physics lesson on Colour . It covers the difference between specular and diffuse reflection, describing white light as a mixture of different colours and explaining why surfaces appear to have different colours, how filters give coloured light and the effect of viewing coloured objects in different colours of light.
The resource is appropriate for Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers. (Note: the order and coding for combined and triple science are different for Topic 5, this is lesson 2 for Triple classes and is not needed in the combined science specification).
You can also download the FREE resource “GCSE Physics SP5 Light and EM Spectrum Lesson outline and equipment list EDEXCEL 9-1” for this topic from my TES shop, which shows the differences between combined and triple science lessons for this topic.
The FREE sample lesson “GCSE Physics Energy Stores and Transfers FULL LESSON (Edexcel 9-1 CP3a SP3a) Conservation of Energy” is also available to download from my TES shop.
Full Lesson PowerPoint to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Physics lesson on Transformers and Energy. It covers a recap of the the law of conservation of energy linking to transformers, power of an electric current is current multiplied by the voltage, the power equation for transformers, recalling and using equations relating current, voltage, power and resistance and using them to explain the advantages of power transmission in high-voltage cables.
The resource is appropriate for Triple Science classes and it covers foundation and higher material.
UPDATE 10/03/20: due to typo on slide 9
The FREE sample lesson “GCSE Physics Energy Stores and Transfers FULL LESSON (Edexcel 9-1 CP3a SP3a) Conservation of Energy” is also available to download from my TES shop.
Full Lesson PowerPoint and resources to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Physics lesson on Electromagnetic Induction. It covers how to produce an electric current by induction on a small scale, how different factors affect the size and direction of an induced current, how the magnetic field produced by an induced potential difference opposes the original change, how electromagnetic induction is used in alternators and dynamos, how microphones work in terms of changing pressure variations into variations in electric current and how loudspeakers change variations in current to variations in air pressure.
The resource is appropriate for Triple Science classes and is for** Higher tier only**.
The FREE sample lesson “GCSE Physics Energy Stores and Transfers FULL LESSON (Edexcel 9-1 CP3a SP3a) Conservation of Energy” is also available to download from my TES shop.
Full Lesson PowerPoint to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Physics lesson on Gas Temperature and Pressure. It covers how the movement of particles causes gas pressure, how changing the temperature of a gas affects the speed of its particles and the pressure of a fixed mass of gas at constant volume, converting temperatures between the Kelvin and Celsius temperature scales and explain the significance of absolute zero.
The resource is appropriate for Triple and Combined Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.
The FREE sample lesson “GCSE Physics Energy Stores and Transfers FULL LESSON (Edexcel 9-1 CP3a SP3a) Conservation of Energy” is also available to download from my TES shop.
Full Lesson PowerPoint and resources to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Physics lesson on Transformers. It covers the law of conservation of energy and links it to transformers, that the power of an electrical current is given by the current multiplied by the voltage and uses the formula relating the input and output current and voltage for transformers.
The resource is appropriate for Combined Science classes, foundation and higher tiers.
Note: If you are teaching the triple science topic on Electromagnetic Induction (SP13) the lessons are quite different so see my lessons on SP13 in my TES shop instead.
The FREE sample lesson “GCSE Physics Energy Stores and Transfers FULL LESSON (Edexcel 9-1 CP3a SP3a) Conservation of Energy” is also available to download from my TES shop.
Full Lesson PowerPoint and resources to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Physics lesson on Background Radiation. It covers sources of background radiation and how the amount of radioactivity can be measured, what background radiation is and how radiation measurements need to be corrected to account for background radiation and details of how a Geiger–Müller tube works.
Updated 04/03/2021
The resource is appropriate for Triple and Combined Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.
You can download the FREE resource “GCSE Physics EDEXCEL 9-1 SP6 & CP6 Radioactivity Lesson outline and equipment list” for this topic from my TES shop. The FREE sample lesson “GCSE Physics Energy Stores and Transfers FULL LESSON (Edexcel 9-1 CP3a SP3a) Conservation of Energy” is also available to download from my TES shop.
Full lessons with resources for those teaching GCSE Edexcel Physics Topic 4 for Triple Science classes. If you are teaching Combined Science only then the CP4 bundle will be more suitable for you as it does not contain the extra lesson required for Triple Science. Lessons include easy to follow presentations that promote high levels of pupil engagement.
The bundle includes 7 full lessons with associated resources plus the required core practical and my lesson overview and resources list for the topic.
A very small number of the resources require access to Pearson Active Teach, however, the vast majority are included in the presentations or as a separate file.
This is a full set of retrieval practice activities to be used as quick 10-15 minute tasks during lessons. These tasks have been created to fit in throughout the whole EDEXCEL physics and combined science physics GCSE course (task list shown in the ‘Physics retrieval TASK LIST AND GUIDE’ that is also attached).
There are 23 different retrieval task – some are for triple science only with different tasks written for combined science physics (H an F different where necessary.
My retrieval practice activities are all out of 20 marks and are intended to test pupils retrieval of knowledge from recent and more historic topics (approx. 10 marks from recent lessons and 10 marks from other topics taught previously). They are best printed as A5 sized booklets.
All retrieval tasks come with an answer document that can be used for easy teacher marking or can be displayed for self/peer marking.
Retrieval task number 5 is available for FREE in my TES shop to enable you to see an example task.
Full Lesson PowerPoint and resources to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Physics lesson on Ray Diagrams . It covers the law of reflection, ray diagrams to show how a mirror forms an image, refraction, total internal reflection and critical angle.
The resource is appropriate for Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers. (Note: the order and coding for combined and triple science are different for Topic 5, this is lesson 1 for Triple classes and is not needed in the combined science specification).
You can also download the FREE resource “GCSE Physics SP5 Light and EM Spectrum Lesson outline and equipment list EDEXCEL 9-1” for this topic from my TES shop, which shows the differences between combined and triple science lessons for this topic.
The FREE sample lesson “GCSE Physics Energy Stores and Transfers FULL LESSON (Edexcel 9-1 CP3a SP3a) Conservation of Energy” is also available to download from my TES shop.
Full Lesson PowerPoint (may take 2 lessons) to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Physics lesson on Electrical Safety. It covers electrical safety rules, the 3-pin plug, how the earth wire, the fuse and circuit breakers make circuits safer, the difference between the functions of the live and the neutral wires and why switches and fuses are connected in the live wire and the potential differences between the live, neutral and earth wires.
The resource is appropriate for Triple and Combined Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.
The FREE sample lesson “GCSE Physics Energy Stores and Transfers FULL LESSON (Edexcel 9-1 CP3a SP3a) Conservation of Energy” is also available to download from my TES shop.
Full Lesson PowerPoint and resources to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Physics lesson on Electric Circuits. It covers metals as conductors, conventional current, circuit components and symbols, series and parallel circuits and the difference between the brightness of identical lamps in series & parallel circuits.
The resource is appropriate for Triple and Combined Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.
The FREE sample lesson “GCSE Physics Energy Stores and Transfers FULL LESSON (Edexcel 9-1 CP3a SP3a) Conservation of Energy” is also available to download from my TES shop.
Full Lesson PowerPoint to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Physics lesson on Resultant Forces and Newton’s First Law for the Edexcel 9-1 GCSE Physics Topic Forces and Motion. It covers free body diagrams, calculating resultant force and describing the effect of balanced and unbalanced forces on moving and stationary objects. Higher only: explaining why circular motion at constant speed is an acceleration and describing the force needed to keep an object moving in a circular path (centripetal force).
The resource is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.
You can also download the FREE resources “GCSE Physics EDEXCEL 9-1 SP2 & CP2 Forces and Motion Lesson outline and equipment list” for this topic from my TES shop.
The FREE sample lesson “GCSE Physics Energy Stores and Transfers FULL LESSON (Edexcel 9-1 CP3a SP3a) Conservation of Energy” is also available to download from my TES shop.
Full Lesson PowerPoint to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Physics lesson on Magnets and Magnetic Fields. It covers how magnets affect each other, the difference between permanent and induced magnets, the uses of magnets, the shapes of magnetic fields, including variations in strength, how the shape of magnetic fields can be shown using plotting compasses and how a magnetic compass can be used as evidence for the Earth’s magnetic core. Note: there a link to an active teach video that is completely OPTIONAL and not necessary for the lesson but an extra if you have access.
The resource is appropriate for Triple and Combined Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.
The FREE sample lesson “GCSE Physics Energy Stores and Transfers FULL LESSON (Edexcel 9-1 CP3a SP3a) Conservation of Energy” is also available to download from my TES shop.
