Nuffield Physics Activities for GCSE

This pack of Nuffield Physics activity sheets was designed to match the National Curriculum Science: Physics at Key stage Four from 1996. The ideas were drawn from materials produced by various Nuffield projects over the previous ten years. The pack includes student sheets for 97 different activities.

Teacher guidance is provided for each activity. Some of the activities provide opportunities for students to develop their investigative skills and at the same time gain experience in the ways in which scientists carry out systematic enquiries.

There are also activities which involve structured discussion in small groups and encourage reporting back orally both to a small group and to the whole class. Other activities encourage students to put words and pictures together to produce their own science descriptions and explanations.

In addition there are also activities in which students have to interpret or record information in various forms, including tables, charts, graphs, diagrams, and models. Gathering, displaying and interpreting data are an important feature of these activities. Students can work with data from secondary sources in various forms.

Contents  

Section P1: Force, energy and motion

Section P2: Electricity and magnetism

Section P3: Waves

Section P4: Electricity in buildings

Section P5: Energy in buildings

Section P6: Waves in health physics

Section P7: Radioactivity in health physics

Section P8: Waves and radioactivity

Section P9: Our place in Space

Section P10: Force and energy in transport

Section P11: Electricity and energy