On walking into a mature forest you see a snapshot of tree development. There are seedlings, saplings, young trees, mature...

Teaching Guidance 11-14

The idea that light travels is not uncommon in the 21 st century. Pupils will often refer to things moving at the speed of...

Physics Narrative 5-11 11-14

The speed of light plays a central role in astronomy and in physics.

Physics Narrative 11-14

The speed of light, in metres per second, is one of those huge numbers that is occasionally thrown up in science and that can...

Teaching Guidance 11-14

Pupils are invariably fascinated by the links which can be made from the speed of light to distances across space, and travel...

Teaching Guidance 11-14

Pupils need to differentiate between the speed of sound in air and the speed of light in air.

Teaching Guidance 5-11 11-14

The speed of light is constant. It is the same everywhere, and is the top speed: a universal speed limit. The way we measure...

Physics Narrative 14-16

When we teach about sound, light and other radiations in school, it is well worth remembering that these are familiar things...

Teaching Guidance 14-16

On the one hand pupils are quite prepared to accept that light can travel 150 million kilometres from the Sun to the Earth and...

Teaching Guidance 11-14

A thought experiment, sometimes called Supplee’s paradox, asks what would happen to a submarine that travelled at close to the...

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16

A selection of home experiments and online simulations that are suitable to use with your students aged 14-16 (KS3) whilst...

Remote teaching support 14-16

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16