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Science · Year 10 · Ready-made course
A five-lesson Year 10 Physical Sciences unit on distance and displacement, speed and velocity, a practical investigation into average speed, acceleration, and motion graphs. Each lesson follows an Explain, Predict, Explore, Analyse, Apply, Assess sequence built around a TEU simulation.
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Across 5 lessons: 6 interactive activities, 6 knowledge checks, 7 practice tasks, 11 reflections and 4 data tables, using 6 different TEU interactives. Every lesson opens with a real question or scenario, states its learning intention, lists its learning outcomes and checks understanding with instant feedback.
Run one lap of a 400 m athletics track and you finish exactly where you started. You have covered 400 m of distance, but your displacement is zero.
Students learn to tell the difference between distance and displacement, and to describe motion using scalar and vector quantities.
2 interactive activities · 1 knowledge check · 1 practice task · 2 reflections
A speedometer tells you how fast a car is going, but not which way. To describe motion fully, physicists use velocity.
Students learn to calculate speed and velocity, convert between units, and explain why speed and velocity are different.
1 interactive activity · 1 knowledge check · 2 practice tasks · 2 reflections · 1 data table
Scientists do not trust a single measurement. In this lesson you will repeat trials, spot results that do not fit and decide how much you can trust your answer.
Students learn to plan a fair investigation, process repeated measurements and judge how reliable our results are.
1 interactive activity · 1 knowledge check · 1 practice task · 3 reflections · 2 data tables
When the traffic lights turn green, a car goes from standing still to 60 km/h in a few seconds. How quickly its velocity changes is its acceleration.
Students learn to calculate acceleration and explain what positive and negative acceleration mean for a moving object.
1 interactive activity · 1 knowledge check · 2 practice tasks · 2 reflections
A single graph can tell the whole story of a journey: when you were moving, how fast, which way, and when you stopped.
Students learn to read displacement–time and velocity–time graphs and use their gradients and areas to describe and calculate motion.
1 interactive activity · 2 knowledge checks · 1 practice task · 2 reflections · 1 data table
Each one can also be used on its own or in your own lessons.
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