This activity, from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, illustrates Kepler’s Third Law for our own Solar System using graphical methods, with a further look at how the same law can be used to derive information about the orbits of exoplanets around their parent stars....

This lesson, from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), looks in particular at how infrared data is collected and used to measure changes in global temperature. Infrared radiation is part of the electromagnetic spectrum of light which has uses in astronomy, communications, surveillance and medicine...

These resources from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) cover the QCA Key Stage Three unit of work 7L 'The Solar System and beyond' through an 'ideas and evidence' approach. It is a unique opportunity to use contemporary information and images.

Each lesson is designed to last an hour, but...

These posters from the National Physical Laboratory are ideal for the key stage three classroom.

• The accuracy and precision poster explains the difference between the two concepts. These ideas are equally applicable for key stages four and five.
• The sound poster explains the terminology of...

These posters from the National Physical Laboratory are ideal for the key stage two classroom and cover the seven SI base units.

Work done in this Nuffield 13 - 16 module followed from the B units called ‘Communities and populations’ and ‘Charged particles’. This S unit provided enough material for eight double periods during a single-certificate science course. The teachers’ guide included four...

This video discusses the use of video to learn science.  It shows that to be most effective a misconception is introduced at the beginning. The more mental effort used the greater the effectiveness.

This booklet contains a range of suggested teaching activities and contexts for teaching about kinematics and dynamics at A level. Curriculum links include force, motion, kinematics, dynamics, speed, velocity, acceleration, displacement, suvat, free fall, projectile, trajectory, F=ma, free body diagram, drag,...

From Nelson Thornes, this resource helps students studying physics at post-16, A2 level. In this activity students practise using the kinetic theory of gas equations and the gas laws. Students are challenged to show what is happening as gas molecules collide with the walls of a tennis ball and extend the kinetic...

This video explains that moving objects have kinetic energy (E_k) and shows how E_k is proportional to both the mass and velocity of an object.

By combining the formulae F=ma and W=Fs to obtain W=mas and using v²=u² + 2as (assuming u²=0), E_k=...

Kinetic theory: box top view

Kinetic theory: box triboelectric