- children's ideas about forces and energy - connect to the measures of motion to everyday concerns

Teaching Guidance 14-16

This challenge arises from an imprecise use of specialist terms, and perhaps from too much reliance on language alone. There...

Teaching Guidance 14-16

The power in a pathway can fill or empty a store, so the power can effect a accumulation of energy in the store (the...

Teaching Guidance 14-16

Momenta met in traditional problems often feel just like numbers on a number-line, because only one dimension is considered in...

Teaching Guidance 14-16

Students often fix on only one factor, when they should consider both factors that contribute to a physical quantity. They...

Teaching Guidance 14-16

Students ought to be developing a repertoire of descriptions for objects in motion, and relating changes in these motions to...

Teaching Guidance 14-16

It's a common pattern of reasoning amongst students, when faced with two physical quantities that affect a third, to...

Teaching Guidance 14-16

The difficulty here is that there are two separate collisions (one with padding and one without), and they need to be modelled...

Teaching Guidance 14-16

There's a good chance you could improve your teaching if you were to try these strategies.

Teaching Guidance 14-16

This is an interesting point relating to the limitations of models, which we'd recommend exploring in full with the students:

Teaching Guidance 14-16

Teaching Guidance 14-16

Teaching Guidance 14-16