Teaching Physics Resources

Off to college or Uni- want some kit?

Hi folks, in a minute of madness I thought there was a bargain to be bagged from the closure of Fife College so I’ve bid on desks, chairs, office chairs, noticeboards, filing cabinets. I now need to sell these to not only repay the cost of the items and the buyers fee, and tax, but...

GUIDE TO PREPARING PRELIMS

Resources for writing prelim papers. Don’t forget to read the course reports for the level that you’re writing prelims. Remember that your marking instructions need to follow the General Marking Principle (GMP). Please check that the details in these documents is up-to-date, remember the courses changed in 2018. These documents will still serve as an...

Technicians for Technicians

Here I will add resources that technicians share with each other. First up is the contribution from Avril Morrison on how to reconnect the connectors to the Unilab Power supplies. For all of these it is expected that you follow your Regional H&S policies and get the apparatus PAT tested and only complete this task...

Escape Room

After 3 months, I’ve finally edited the Escape Room Video. I’m sorry it took so long and the quality is so poor. I’ll see if I can get it redone.

Light & Sound

These are the materials from the Light and Sound presentation I gave on 27th November 2024. Many of the slides come from the powerpoint I made for the BGE in the Beyond the Visible and Energy and Sound Topic. Above is the powerpoint for the session with some of the perception slides. More information and...

49th Stirling Physics Teachers’ Meeting

For the 49th Stirling Physics Teachers' Conference, here are the details of the events and helpsheets etc.

Modelling Particle Accelerators

Notes to make a safe LINAC and CYCLOTRON particle acelerators from salad bowl or guttering. Including some H&S notes

Moderating Resources

Hot off the press, I’ve just worked out the cutoff scores for each grade at each level. Here it is. As part of the moderation process we’ve got some fake student scripts. I have not done a definitive marking instructions but I believe the person who sat this paper, a Drew Escutcheon, has made some...

Extracurricular Activities in STEM

This is a video of an IoP Coaching Session that I took part in on 27th October 2020 trying to inspire teachers to grasp the opportunities that are available for them and their students. https://www.britishscienceassociation.org/ https://www.crestawards.org/ https://www.britishscienceweek.org/about-us/grants/ https://www.stem.org.uk/enrichment/competitions-challenges http://www.flamsteed.org/fasjbrown.htm https://www.britishscienceweek.org/find-a-presenter/ https://www.mrsphysics.co.uk/bge/category/heat/ https://www.mrsphysics.co.uk/bge/category/s1electricitytopic/ https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/grants/partnership-grants/application-process/ https://www.science-on-stage.eu/page/display/4/111/0/festival-2022 Faulkes https://observe.lco.global/ https://www.strath.ac.uk/engineering/scottishspaceschool/ https://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/83016.html

AH Uncertainties

This is a presentation I gave on AH Uncertainties for the IoP. It was the end of term and that’s why I am nearly falling asleep. I had to update it as I had indeed taken the absolute and not fractional uncertainty in T to double for the uncertainty in T2. https://vimeo.com/470128824 The above file...

Language in Science

As an IoP Coach in Scotland it has been a privilege to produce some resources for a course on language in Science. The talk can be downloaded from Talkphysics but here is the presentation. The-Language-of-Physics-v3Download

First few video uploads

3 States of Matter 3 States of matter in one tube from Mrs Physics on Vimeo. Thanks to Adam P for holding the camera as I did this demo. It shows so much Science in one large boiling tube! Convection, lack of conduction, state of matter, floating and sinking, density! Hope you like it. The...