The standard each lesson is connected to in the WASSCE 2016 syllabi used in Sierra Leone are provided here.
Remember,
- NEVER hesitate to take one of the lesson plans and make changes that suit your own needs or situation.
- NEVER doubt yourself if you want to try and develop you own experiment or project, or go after and try to solve some local problem that may be science-based!
- Air friction and terminal velocity
- Algorithms: Thinking like a robot (essence of computer programming)
- Algorithms: Thinking like a robot (essence of computer programming)
- Calculus-based physics videos for Mechanics and Electricity & Magnetism (need Internet access)
- Charging objects using induction and conduction
- Charging objects using induction and conduction
- Density determination for materials
- Distance vs Displacement vector (and could include Speed vs Velocity vector)
- Friction strength using inclines
- Friction strength using force scales
- Hydraulic jump: How to develop research questions for everyday events
- Inertia examples (Newton's 1st law of motion)
- Measuring mass and weight: Making and calibrating your own rubber band force scale
- Meteor shower observations and discussions (orbits, air friction)
- Ohm's law: if there is access to electricity (can use batteries)
- Distance vs Displacement vector (and could include Speed vs Velocity vector)
- Friction strength using inclines
- Friction strength using force scales
- Hydraulic jump: How to develop research questions for everyday events
- Inertia examples (Newton's 1st law of motion)
- Measuring mass and weight: Making and calibrating your own rubber band force scale
- Meteor shower observations and discussions (orbits, air friction)
- Ohm's law: if there is access to electricity (can use batteries)
- Ohm's law: if there is NOT access to electricity or equipment
- Paper airplanes (could have engineering design challenge, or a contest)
- Pendulum properties
- Projectiles: Rubber band launcher
- Projectiles: Predict landing spots of any type of ball rolling off a table
- Radioactive half-life (using sets of anything with two sides, such as coins or two-sided chips)
- Rotational motion examples
- Scaling the size of the solar system
- Simple harmonic motion using rubber bands and string
- Sound and waves: Rubber band instruments
- Surface tension of different liquids
More generally:
Encourage students to write poems, stories, songs, short plays, or debates about any physics topic or issue that is physics related! It is a wonderful way to build up writing and creative skills, in addition to new ways of learning the topic. Often, students better remember and learn a topic than through traditional methods, such as when a catchy song is better remembered than paragraphs from a textbook.
- Paper airplanes (could have engineering design challenge, or a contest)
- Pendulum properties
- Projectiles: Rubber band launcher
- Projectiles: Predict landing spots of any type of ball rolling off a table
- Radioactive half-life (using sets of anything with two sides, such as coins or two-sided chips)
- Rotational motion examples
- Scaling the size of the solar system
- Simple harmonic motion using rubber bands and string
- Sound and waves: Rubber band instruments
- Surface tension of different liquids
More generally:
Encourage students to write poems, stories, songs, short plays, or debates about any physics topic or issue that is physics related! It is a wonderful way to build up writing and creative skills, in addition to new ways of learning the topic. Often, students better remember and learn a topic than through traditional methods, such as when a catchy song is better remembered than paragraphs from a textbook.
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