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Year 10 Physics
Scheme of Work
GCSE Physics Scheme of Work (SOW) — KS4 Year 10 PDF
Sixty-four pages, board-neutral, written for combined science and separate physics together. Twenty of the seventy-seven statements are separate physics only, and they cluster, so moments, fluid pressure and everything about waves at a boundary are marked rather than woven in. Every Higher-tier statement is named in the unit that teaches it, including the two that look like core content and are not. Six figures, six printable diagnostics, and an equations page separating the nineteen to recall from the nine given in the examination.
£5.99The Year 10 scheme: 6 half-termly units, 64 pages
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Both years: GCSE Physics scheme of work
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- 1aEnergy: Stores, Transfers and Efficiency
- 1bThe Particle Model of Matter
- 2aElectricity: Current, Circuits and Safety
- 2bForces, Pressure and Moments
- 3aForces and Motion: Graphs, Newton’s Laws and Stopping
- 3bWaves in Matter
Ten sections per unit, in the same order every time. Phases rather than single lessons, because science is timetabled at around three hours a week.
Year 10 is the mechanical world: energy, matter, electricity, force and motion, and waves travelling through matter. Year 11 takes fields, light and the universe. That division is why energy opens the book and the electromagnetic spectrum does not appear in it at all.
Physics carries the largest separate-only share of the three sciences, and the largest mathematical one: eighteen of the seventy-seven statements are mathematical skills. Both are set out unit by unit rather than left for a department to discover in March.
- Written to
- The GCSE subject content for physics (DfE, DFE-00352-2014) and for combined science (DFE-00351-2014)
- Intended for
- heads of science, physics leads and every teacher who has to deliver it
- Extent
- 64 pages · 20 sections
The sequence
What this scheme of work covers, unit by unit
The 6 units of the Year 10 Physics Scheme of Work, in teaching order, with the term each one runs in and the question it is built to answer.
1a
Energy: Stores, Transfers and Efficiency
Autumn 1 · approx. 7 weeks · September – October
A lamp turns 1000 J of electricity into 250 J of light. Where did the other 750 J go?
1b
The Particle Model of Matter
Autumn 2 · approx. 7 weeks · November – December
You heat ice steadily. Why does the temperature stop rising while it melts?
2a
Electricity: Current, Circuits and Safety
Spring 1 · approx. 6 weeks · January – February
bright. Why?
2b
Forces, Pressure and Moments
Spring 2 · approx. 6 weeks · February – April
You hold a heavy suitcase perfectly still for ten minutes. How much work have you done on it?
3a
Forces and Motion: Graphs, Newton's Laws and Stopping
Summer 1 · approx. 6 weeks · April – May
speeding up steadily?
3b
Waves in Matter
Summer 2 · approx. 6 weeks · June – July
A cork bobs on a passing wave and never reaches the shore. If the water is not travelling, what is?
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Contents
All 20 sections
Taken from the book’s own contents page, so the page numbers are the real ones.