AQA GCSE Physics

by Graham C. Hill and Steve Witney

Published 27 April 2007
The AQA GCSE Physics Teacher's Guide provides comprehensive support for staff teaching GCSE Physics. Written to support the Student's Book, the text provides answers and support to all the questions and activities within the Student's Book. The Guide also provides lesson outlines with starter, main and plenary activities, suggests timings, provides help in dealing with common misconceptions, outlines the new skills being taught in the course and highlights internal, external and formative assessment opportunities. The Student's Book has a strong emphasis on how science works. It focuses on real-life contexts, and develops enquiry and data handling skills. This guide will help support this new style of GCSE teaching. This guide includes a CD-ROM of the entire content of the book in editable Word format. The paper and CD-ROM versions are both fully cross-referenced to the separate e-Worksheets CD-ROM with practical activities and homeworks.>

The Teacher's Guide provides extensive support for staff teaching the new GCSE. Written to support the Higher Student's Book, it provides answers and support to all the questions and activities within the book. The Guide also provides lesson outlines with starters, main and plenary activities, suggests timings, provides help in dealing with common misconceptions, outlines the new skills being taught in the course and highlights assessment opportunities for formative, internal and external assessment. The Student's Book has a strong emphasis throughout on how science works. It focuses on real-life contexts, allowing students to understand that science is not always centred in a laboratory. The book aims to motivate and engage students with many up-to-date applications and ideas. This guide will help support teachers through this new style of GCSE teaching. All the material is provided in paper and CD-ROM format for easy use. Throughout the Guide, the supporting resources are fully referenced, including the separate e-Worksheets CD-ROM with practical activities and homeworks, and the Interactive Presentations CD-ROM.The free online scheme of work will be a valuable complement to the Teacher's Guide.