Each lesson takes about one hour and guides you step by step: a starter, a reading task, key facts to copy into your book, a real-world main task, exam practice with model answers, and an exit ticket. All you need is your exercise book and a pen.
Key: C+S = Combined and Separate | S only = Separate Physics only
🖨️ Printable worksheets
Many lessons are also available as a printable worksheet – all the steps, reading, copy boxes, tasks and exam questions, with the answers on a separate final page. Where a worksheet is available, scroll to the bottom of the lesson for the ⬇ PDF (ready to print) and ⬇ Word (editable) buttons.
Paper 1
- Power the Island – energy resources (C+S)
- Save the Kettle Company – energy stores and efficiency (C+S)
- Cut the Bills – insulating a home (C+S)
- Circuit Builder – series and parallel circuits (C+S)
- Plug Detective – mains electricity and safety (C+S)
- Keep the Country Running – the National Grid (C+S)
- Ice Road Truckers – density and changes of state (C+S)
- Deep Sea Diver – pressure in gases and liquids (S only)
- Science Detectives – the model of the atom (C+S)
- Hospital Radiation Officer – radioactivity and half-life (C+S)
- Power of the Future – fission and fusion (S only)
Paper 2
- Road Safety Campaign – stopping distances (C+S)
- Crash Test Engineer – forces and car safety (C+S, momentum Higher)
- Skydive Challenge – terminal velocity (C+S)
- Sound Investigators – sound and ultrasound (C+S, ultrasound S only)
- Earthquake Detectives – seismic waves (S only)
- Help or Hazard? – the electromagnetic spectrum (C+S)
- Build a Scrapyard Crane – electromagnets and the motor effect (C+S)
- You Are Stardust – the life cycle of a star (S only)
- Where Did It All Begin? – red-shift and the Big Bang (S only)