Teaching Secondary Physics, ASE
Teaching Guidance for 11-14 14-16
This is a page of curated resources to support teachers using the ASE book Teaching Secondary Physics, third edition. All of the links below are to pages on IOPSpark and relate to references in the book. They are organised by chapter.
1. Intro
The Supporting Physics Teaching materials are designed to cover all the main topics in physics at school level. They cover three aspects of support for physics teaching: building a physics narrative, considering teaching, and learning challenges and suggesting a range of teaching approaches.
2. Forces
Introduction
2.1 Visualising and describing forces
- Challenges with using force arrows (5-14)
- A collection exploring contact forces (11-14)
- A collection exploring non-contact forces (11-14)
- Considering gravitational and magnetic forces (11-14)
- Defining forces (11-19)
2.2. Extension, compression and turning forces
- Extension of springs practical (14-16)
2.3 Measuring and describing motion using numbers and equations (s, v, a and t)
- Distinguishing between instantaneous and average speed
- Understanding speed, distance and time (5-11)
- A collection on measuring speed (5-16)
- Differentiating between velocity and speed (11-19)
- Differentiating between acceleration and speed (11-19)
2.4 Motion graphs
2.5 Newton’s laws
- Newtons first law and motion being possible without a resultant force I (11-16)
- Newtons first law and motion being possible without a resultant force II (5-19)
- Newtons first law and why moving objects slow down (11-19)
- Investigating Newtons’ second law (14-16)
- Newtons third law and interactions I (5-14)
- Newtons third law and interactions II (11-16)
2.6 Mass and weight, freefall and terminal Velocity
- Why do things with different masses fall at the same rate? (11-14)
- Mass, weight and gravity I (5-19)
- Mass, weight and gravity II (14-19)
- Understanding falling objects (16-19)
2.7 Momentum and collisions
2.8 Circular motion
- Introduction to circular motion (11-14)
- Some misconceptions and challenges with respect to circular motion I (11-16)
- Some misconceptions and challenges with respect to circular motion II (11-16)
- Some misconceptions and challenges with respect to circular motion III (11-16)
3. Electricity and Magnetism
3.1 Charge and static
- Attracting can (11-14)
- Shocking (11-16)
- Charging by electrostatic induction (14-16)
- Van de Graaff generator - good housekeeping and repairs (14-16)
- Electric field patterns (14-16)
3.2 Simple electric circuits
- Squishy circuits (5-14)
- Modelling electrical loops (11-14)
- Measuring electric currents (11-14)
- Rope loop circuits (11-14)
- Short series (11-14)
3.3 Circuit analysis
- Batteries and voltage (11-14)
- Quick parallels (11-14)
- Resistance (11-14)
- Calculating electrical power (11-14)
- Measuring resistance with a voltmeter and an ammeter (14-16)
3.4 Magnets and magnetic fields
- Exploring magnets (11-14)
- The Earth’s magnetic field activity (11-14)
- Magnetic force pairs (14-16)
3.5 Electromagnetism
- Electromagnets in everyday use (11-14)
- Generators (14-16)
4. Energy
Introduction
- Limited number of stores (11-14)
- Why these stores? (11-14)
4.1 Fuels and tasks that use energy resources
- Calorific values - balanced diet activity (11-14)
- Comparing resources and tasks - energy costs of living (11-14)
- One week's journeys (11-14)
- Lifting apples - energy ladder (11-14)
- Human exercise (14-16)
- Using a fuel to move - steam engine (14-16)
4.2 Transferring energy mechanically
- Big pendulum - animation of stores (11-14)
- Technique for representing stores using beakers of liquid (11-14)
- Trolley activity (14-16)
- Avoiding using chains
4.4 Transferring energy by heating
- Measuring thermal capacity of aluminium activity (14-16)
- Comparing thermal conductivity of different materials activity (14-16)
- Different surfaces absorbing (14-16)
- Measuring specific latent heat of ice activity (16-19)
4.5 Power, efficiency and the electrical grid
5. Matter
Introduction
5.1 States of matter and particles
- States of matter model (14-16)
5.2 Density of regular and irregular objects
5.3 Pressure and solids
- Pressure and stress (11-14)
5.4 Pressure in liquids, floating and sinking
5.5 Gases, pressure and particle motion
- A collection on Boyle’s law (14-16)
- Pressure and temperature demonstration (14-16)
- Gas pressure activity (5-14)
- A collection on Brownian motion (14-16)
6. Atomic Physics
- Students’ ideas about radioactivity (14-16)
- Misconceptions related to radiation I (16-19)
- Misconceptions related to radiation II (16-19)
6.1 Atomic Structure
- Atoms and nuclei guidance (14-16)
- The scattering experiments (14-16)
- Developing models of the atom (14-16)
- Rutherford’s experiment (16-19)
6.2 What is radioactivity?
- Ionising radiations and their properties (14-16)
- Identifying types of radiation (14-16)
- Using a spark counter (14-16)
- Using a cloud chamber (14-16)
- An experimental approach to cloud chambers (14-16)
- Sources for diffusion cloud chambers (14-16)
- Expansion cloud chambers (14-16)
- Cloud chamber collection (14-16)
- Managing radioactive material in schools (14-16)
- Radiation CPD videos (11-19)
6.3 Half-life
- The protactinium generator (14-16)
- Modelling half-life (14-16)
- Modelling half-life (remote) (14-19)
- Nuclear stability (16-19)
- Introduction to half-life (16-19)
6.4 The applications of radioactive decay
- Nuclear fission collection (16-19)
- Teaching medical physics collection (14-16)
7 Waves
7.1 sound waves
- Introducing sources of sound (5-14)
- Dancing sprinkles (11-14)
- Agreeing on loudness (11-14)
- Pitch and frequency (11-14)
- Slink-o-scope (14-16)
- Musical coat hanger (5-14)
- Measuring the speed of sound I (14-16)
- Measuring the speed of sound II (14-16)
7.2 Light waves
- Galileo and the speed of light (11-14)
- Modelling reflection of light using a rubber ball (14-16)
- Colour mixing (14-16)
- The discovery of infrared (14-16)
7.3 Comparing waves
- Using an oscilloscope (14-16)
- Using a ripple tank (14-16)
7.5 Applications of refraction
- Making a telescope (14-16)
Additional materials
- Physics in concert (11-16)
- Voicebox (11-16)
- Earthquakes in the laboratory (14-16)
- Stories from physics - waves: light, sound and other oscillations (11-19)
8 Earth and Space
8.1 Key Ideas
- Challenges with the Earth, Sun and Moon orbits I (5-11)
- Challenges with the Earth, Sun and Moon orbits II (5-14)
- Misconception relating to day and night (5-16)
8.2 Teaching about the Earth, Sun and Moon
- Solar eclipses demonstration (11-14)
- Explain the phases of the Moon (11-14)
- Phases of the Moon activity (11-14)
- Phases of the Moon demonstration (11-14)
- Challenges with the seasons II (11-16)
- Challenges with the seasons III (11-16)
- Seasons: part 1 (14-16)
- Seasons: part 2 (14-16)
- Eclipses (14-16)
- Challenges with the seasons I (5-19)
- Phases of the moon ideas I (5-19)
- Phases of the moon ideas II (5-19)
8.3 Teaching about the solar system
- Building a model of the solar system with fruit (11-14)
- Tours of the solar system (11-14)
- The transit method (11-14)
- Misconceptions relating to the solar system I (11-16)
- Misconceptions relating to the solar system II (5-14)
8.4 Stars, galaxies and the Universe
- Colour and temperature of stars (11-14)
- The life cycle of stars (11-14)
- The life cycle of stars: the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (11-14)
- Redshift (11-14)
8.5 The expanding Universe
- Elastic band universe (14-19)
