Teaching Resources
Online Resources
SimPhysics
Three brand new interactive games are now available to use in your teaching of energy and space to 13-16 year olds. These games are designed to help students to engage with the physics they need to use to solve problems and win the games.
physics.org
physics.org is a simple one-stop shop for any questions on physics. The site uses a powerful natural language programme to give an accurate and relevant answer to your question using a database of refereed resources that are guaranteed by the Institute. If you provide more information, such as your age and knowledge of physics, the answers become even more focused.
Practical Physics
Experiments sharpen students' powers of observation, stimulate questions, and help develop new understanding and vocabulary. Practical Physics will help all teachers of physics to share their skills and experience of making experiments work in the classroom. The website includes notes on apparatus, procedure, and teaching notes, together with general guidance on teaching approaches.
Physics and Ethics Education Project
PEEP is an interactive website and virtual learning environment for secondary school science teachers and their students. It is a teaching resource developed to highlight the moral, ethical, social, economic, environmental and technological implications and applications of physics.
A2 GCE Applied Science
A package of resources to support A2 units in GCE Applied Science specifications (AQA and OCR). It consists of 26 activities developed by the Nuffield Curriculum Centre and 4science in conjunction with a teacher network based on Science Learning Centres in Bristol, London and Manchester. Physics activities include “impact testing”, “investigating X-rays”, “thermography”, “physics of performance effects” and “cells and batteries”. Each has a brief for students, structured as a number of tasks, with teaching guidance.
Medical Physics Teaching Materials for Schools
Medical Physics Teaching Materials for Schools is a set of teaching materials being produced by the Institute's Medical Physics Group. It includes three PowerPoint lessons on ultrasound, the electromagnetic spectrum and radioactivity which can be used to teach medical physics at GCSE/Standard level in schools.
Physics on Stage
Physics on Stage was an educational outreach initiative for European physics Educators. Set up by three of Europe's leading research organisations in 2000 to give teachers from 22 European countries the opportunity to take part in national programmes and international festivals to exchange teaching ideas and materials.
View and download a range of exciting physics demonstrations from Physics on Stage 2 and Physics on Stage 3.
Secondary Online Science
Secondary Online Science is a free site aimed at 11-14 year olds produced with Channel 4 and the Royal Society of Chemistry. Secondary Online Science helps children learn science by playing games.
Joint Earth Sciences Educational Initiative (JESEI)
Know your lithosphere from your subduction zone? The Institute, along with a number of other organisations has provided a set of immediately useful classroom resources, for ages 11-16. Teacher's notes, student materials, terminology explained, even some video clips. The truth about earthquake waves, magma plumes, and solids that flow, all done with treacle and potty putty…. (well almost). To find out more information visit the Joint Earth Sciences Educational Initiative website.
AVCE Science Resource Directory
The AVCE Science Resource Directory maps resources against the 2000 Advanced VCE in Science which was developed as the result of an initiative taken by the professional science bodies.
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