ENERGY

• Bunsen Burners
• Look at an experiment to determine which Bunsen flame is the hottest
• Energy resources (hyperlinks and fossil fuels)
• Energy resources summary and review of energy transformations (worksheet)
• Energy from food
• Test yourself on Energy Resources

FORCES AND MOTION

• Try a word search
• Answers to the word search
• Start creating a concept map for this topic
• Introduction to forces
• Understanding the difference between "weight" and "mass"
• Investigations : 1 Rubber bands
• Investigations : 2 Upthrust
• Investigations : 3 Friction
• Balanced and Unbalanced Forces
• Calculating Speed
• Test yourself!

SPEEDING UP

• Investigations : 1 how is the speed of an object affected by the fluid around it
• Investigations : 2 how is the speed of a falling object affected by its surface area
• Investigations : 3 how is the acceleration affected by the mass of the object
• How should your experiments have turned out?
• Class project part 1: Building rockets; the instructions
• Class project part 2: Streamlining and rockets; the report
• Class project part 3: to help with completing the report, use this excel spreadsheet to do the graphs
• How should the experiment have turned out
• Interpreting distance v.s. time graphs
• Some examples
• Understanding "terminal velocity"
• Understanding "speed v.s. time graphs

ELECTRICITY AND CIRCUITS

• What do you already know
• Understanding series circuits
• Using a simulation to understand series circuits
• Using a simulation to understand parallel circuits
• Measuring the current in series circuits
• "A smarties model" for understanding series and parallel circuits
• Notes on the "smarties" role play
• Summary notes for circuits
• Test yourself
• House wiring project : lesson 1
• House wiring project : lesson 2 & 3
• House wring project : lesson 4

MAGNETS AND ELECTROMAGNETS

• LESSON 1: Introduction to magnetism
• Lesson 1 Activity Sheet
• LESSON 2: Making Magnets
• Lesson 2: Starter Word Search
• Lesson 2: Making a magnet by stroking
• Lesson 2: Making an Electromagnet
• LESSON 3: Using Electromagnets
• LESSON 4a: Sc 1 Task
• LESSON 4b: Problem Solving Task
• LESSON 5: End of Topic Worksheet

Light and Colour

Sound and Hearing

• Outline for lesson 1
• Lesson 1- starter
• Lesson 1- Make an Instrument
• Lesson 1-Homework
• Outline for lesson 2
• Outline for lesson 3
• Lesson 3 - starter
• Calculating the speed of sound (worksheet with results)
• Calculating the speed of sound with electronic equipment
• Outline for lesson 4
• Unlabelled diagram of the ear
• Labelled diagram of the ear
• Outline for lesson 5
• Measuring sound levels

Heating and Cooling

• Review "Solids, Liquids and Gases"
• Observing the Cooling of Stearic Acid (a word frame for the experiment)
• Explaining Heating and Cooling Graphs
• Conduction
• Investigating conduction
• Convection
• Radiation
• Investigating Radiation 1
• Investigating Radiation 2

Moments

Pressure

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