Description

This action-packed lesson exploring and explaining the relationship between resistance and current, is fully resourced and differentiated with 13 activities including starter, plenary, exit ticket quiz plus homeworks and 12 learning outcomes.

Easy to follow instructions are given on the PowerPoint and worksheets so that the lesson practically runs itself.

The activities include literacy, group work, peer assessment, self-assessment, pupil response to assessment, feedback to teacher on pupil learning via the exit ticket quiz and a practical.

This pack contains material for two hours lesson time in total to enable the teacher to select and totally bespoke their lesson according to pupil ability, time available for the topic and focus of departmental/school policy. Resources not used in the lesson can be additional homework or used for pre-examination revision.

An easy to follow one-page flow chart lesson plan indicates where logical choices between resources can be made and indicates whether each activity includes literacy, oracy or AFL.

Objective

To know that resistance is the result of electrons colliding with the metal ions in a conductor.
To know that resistance increases with the number of metal ions such in a longer wire.
To predict the outcome and design an experiment to investigate the relationship between resistance and current by adding lamps to a circuit.
To design a results table.
To draw a bar graph of the results of the experiment.

Resources

Animated 17 slide PowerPoint- includes exit ticket /plenary quiz
Cut and stick
Anticipation guide(starter and plenary)
Flip It
Taboo Cards
Worksheet for practical
Fact sheet
Foldable
Fact Share Worksheet
Exit ticket template
ABC card template
4 Differentiated homework/classwork worksheets
Flow chart lesson plan
PowerPoint with answers /detailed mark schemes for homework/classwork sheets-pupils of all abilities can self-assess or peer assess.