AQA GCSE Physics 8463 Complete Course | 71 Ready to Teach Lessons with Topic Tests

What you get

• 71 editable PowerPoint lessons, one hour each, in teaching order
• Including all 10 required practicals, each written as a full lesson rather than a method sheet
• 8 topic tests, one per topic, with a full mark scheme for every question. 352 marks in total
• 8 medium-term plans, one per unit, with the lesson sequence, key ideas, common misconceptions and assessment points
• A curriculum map listing every lesson with its objectives, specification points and tier, filterable, with your own teaching hours and terms to fill in
• A teacher guide explaining how the course is built and where to start
• A Personalised Learning Checklist covering the whole specification for pupils to rate red, amber or green before mocks

P8 Space physics is included. The solar system, the life cycle of a star, orbital motion and red shift are physics only.

How every lesson runs

A title slide with the objectives and a hook. A slide naming the exact AQA specification points, so you can check it against the specification in seconds. A Do Now that retrieves the lesson before, with the answers on the next slide. Then I do, we do, you do, once for each idea: the explanation you talk through, whiteboard questioning and partner talk, then written practice they complete alone. A model answer after every task. An exam-style question with its mark scheme, and an exit ticket to close.

Calculations are worked on screen. Circuits, energy, forces, waves and specific heat capacity each carry worked examples, so pupils see the equation chosen, rearranged and substituted before they try it alone.

Everything is editable and customisable. The lessons are PowerPoint files and the topic tests are Word files. Change the examples, the names, the numbers and the pace to suit your class.

Who it is for

Heads of Physics building a two or three-year separate science route. Biologists and chemists covering physics classes, which is where most schools are short staffed. Trainees and early career teachers. Tutors and home educators working through the specification with one pupil.

Download the free sample before you buy.

Written by Mrs Hayles, an award-winning science educator, former deputy headteacher and science curriculum author.

Every lesson in the course, in teaching order

All 71 lessons are listed below so you can check the course against your own scheme of work before you buy.

P1 Energy

1. Energy stores and calculating energy changes
2. Specific heat capacity and power
3. Required practical: Specific Heat Capacity
4. Conservation, dissipation and efficiency
5. Required practical: Thermal Insulation
6. National and global energy resources

P2 Electricity

1. Circuits, charge and current
2. Resistors: ohmic and non-ohmic
3. Required practical: Resistance of a Wire
4. Required practical: I-V Characteristics
5. Thermistors and LDRs
6. Mains electricity: ac, dc and the three wires
7. Electrical power
8. Energy transfers in everyday appliances
9. The National Grid
10. Static charge and the forces between charged objects
11. Electric fields around charged objects
12. Series and parallel circuits

P3 Particle model of matter

1. Density and changes of state
2. Internal energy of a system
3. Specific heat capacity and latent heat
4. Particle motion in gases
5. Required practical: Density
6. Pressure in gases
7. Doing work on a gas

P4 Atomic structure

1. The structure of an atom
2. Atomic number, mass number and isotopes
3. The development of the model of the atom
4. Radioactive decay and nuclear radiation
5. Nuclear equations and half-life
6. Radioactive contamination and irradiation
7. Background radiation, half-lives and medical uses
8. Nuclear fission and fusion

P5 Forces

1. Forces, scalars and vectors
2. Resultant forces
3. Pressure in fluids
4. Pressure in a liquid, floating and sinking
5. Distance and displacement
6. Required practical: Force and Extension
7. Required practical: Acceleration and Force
8. Speed and velocity
9. Distance-time graphs
10. Acceleration and velocity-time graphs
11. Newton's laws and braking
12. Newton's Third Law
13. Momentum and collisions
14. Work done and energy transfer
15. Forces and elasticity
16. Moments, levers and gears

P6 Waves

1. Transverse and longitudinal waves
2. Amplitude, wavelength, frequency and the wave equation
3. Reflection, transmission, absorption and how we hear sound
4. Ultrasound and seismic waves
5. The electromagnetic spectrum (Higher tier)
6. Generating electromagnetic waves and their dangers
7. Uses of electromagnetic waves
8. Required practical: Waves
9. Required practical: Light
10. Required practical: Infrared Radiation
11. Lenses and magnification
12. Colour, reflection and filters
13. Infrared radiation and perfect black bodies
14. Black body radiation and the temperature of the Earth

P7 Magnetism and electromagnetism

1. Magnetic poles, forces and induced magnets
2. Magnetic Fields
3. Electromagnetism: Fields From Currents
4. The Motor Effect and Electric Motors
5. The generator effect
6. Transformers

P8 Space physics

1. Our solar system and the life cycle of a star
2. Orbits, red-shift and the Big Bang

Licence

One purchase covers one teacher. You can use these lessons with your own classes for as long as you teach, edit them to suit your pupils, print them and share them with the children you teach and their parents.

If your whole department wants to use them, buy one copy per teacher or email info@advisoryscience.com and I will arrange a department price.

Please do not upload the files to a public website, share them outside your own school, or resell them.