P1c: HOW INSULATION WORKS AND HEATING HOUSES 

• Starter - What words related to this unit do you already know?
• FOR STUDENTS : What do I need to do?
• Energy dictionary
• Do you need to review KS3 work on heat transfer?
• Review an investigation of conduction in metals
• Conduction experiments; summary and assessment sheet
• Can Do Task - Designing A Demonstration To Show A Convection Current
• Convection experiments; summary
• Review an investigation of absorption of radiation (using absorption discs)
• Can Do Task - Plotting Cooling Curves
• Applications of heat transfer
• Can Do Task - Carrying Out An Experiment To Compare The Performance Of Different Insulating Materials
• Can Do Task Aid - An excel document to help with producing your graphs.
• Practice questions on Energy For The Home

P1d: COOKING WITH WAVES

• Cooking with infrared waves and microwaves
• Communicating with microwaves
• The electromagnetic spectrum ( frequency vs relative danger)
• Some more practice questions

P1b: KEEPING HOMES WARM

• Reading thermograms
• How energy efficient is your house?

P1a: HEATING HOUSES

• What's the difference between "temperature" and "heat"?
• Investigating specific heat capacity
• Can Do Task - Calculating the energy transferred to melt ice

P1e: Infrared Signals

• Why are digital signals better than analogue signals?

MODULE P2 : LIVING FOR THE FUTURE

P2a :COLLECTING ENERGY FROM THE SUN (outline)

• How photocells work
• Can Do Task - Photocells and voltage

P2b : GENERATING ELECTRICITY (outline)

• Investigating the dynamo effect
• Worksheet to help understand the equations and calculations in 2b and 2c

P2c : FUELS FOR POWER (outline)

• Can Do Task - I can find the energy transferred in an electrical circuit

P2d : NUCLEAR RADIATIONS (outline)

P2e : OUR MAGNETIC FIELD (outline)

P2f : EXPLORING OUR SOLAR SYSTEM (outline)

P2g : THREATS TO THE EARTH (outline)

P2h : THE BIG BANG (outline)