Thinking about actions to take: Warming and Cooling

There's a good chance you could improve your teaching if you were to:

Try these

• using the idea of a thermal store as the basis for exploring temperature
• explicitly describing where the energy is before and after a process

Teacher Tip: Work through the Physics Narrative to find these lines of thinking worked out and then look in the Teaching Approaches for some examples of activities.

Avoid these

• heat rises
• conflating power and energy
• mixing up descriptions about processes with those about snapshots, which define the beginning and end of the process

Teacher Tip: These difficulties are distilled from: the research findings; the practice of well-connected teachers with expertise; issues intrinsic to representing the physics well.