An activity for 13-14 year olds to encourage more students, particularly girls, to consider careers related to physics.

Classroom Activity 11-14 14-16

These resources provide a set of practical activities that encourage students to understand human speech at a basic level.

Classroom Activity 11-14 14-16

This activity shows that a loud sound is capable of making small grains jump. You can use it to introduce the idea that sound...

Practical Activity 11-14

A selection of question sets and worksheets to use with your students to support and develop their understanding of light...

Remote teaching support 11-14 14-16 16-19

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

Remote teaching support 11-14 14-16 16-19

A selection of home experiments and online simulations that are suitable to use with your students aged 11-14 (KS3) whilst...

Remote teaching support 11-14

In this activity, students download an oscilloscope app onto a laptop or phone to investigate pitch and loudness. You can use...

Practical Activity 11-14 14-16

In addition to the radio waves produced by human beings’ transmitters, low frequency radio waves from a number of natural...

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16

During the early days of radio technology, in 1903, Frederick Collins published a paper in which he set out to determine the...

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16

In 1958, the United States Government declared a 180 km by 190 km area as the National Radio Quiet Zone.

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16

During the Second World War, radio operators reported being able to perceive microwaves as auditory stimuli.

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16

High amplitude sounds can cause pneumothorax, a build-up of air in the pleural space that leads to the detachment of a lung...

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16