Sound Wave
Light Sound and Waves

Kitset of the main ideas in the topic Sound

Teaching Guidance for 11-14 IOP TAP

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Light, Sound and Waves IOP RESOURCES

Home experiments to support the remote teaching ...

A selection of home experiments that are suitable to use with your students remotely to support and develop their...

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Sound Wave
Light, Sound and Waves Supporting Physics Teaching

Tracking loudness

This emphasises the graph as a story about something and a way of communicating. It is an opportunity to increase pupils'...

Classroom Activity 5-11 11-14

Visible Light
Light, Sound and Waves

Videos (age 11-14, KS3) to support the remote te...

A selection of videos to use with your KS3 students (ages 11-14) to support and develop their understanding of Light, Sound...

Remote teaching support 11-14

Light Sound and Waves Misconceptions
RESEARCH REVIEW Light, Sound and Waves

Many students will not understand that sound can be absorbed by materials and few will explain sound absorption via vibrations (this could extend to other types of wave also).

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RESEARCH REVIEW Light, Sound and Waves

Many students will be familiar with light being described in 'bits' and being contained to specific areas.

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RESEARCH REVIEW Light, Sound and Waves

Most students think of waves ‘carrying’ material from one place to another.

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