P5 - Energy in the home
Always tough!
AC DC, and a few calculations...
TEACHING IDEAS AND RESOURCES
ideas and work sheets
Oscilloscopes - trying to read them...
Worksheet - Higher ANS Foundation ANS
These sheets work through the display of an oscilloscope AC and DC
"PLUG" quiz
Students try and guess all the answers - (a cunning way to walk them through bits of the spec they should know. lesson is followed by wire a plug practical.
Power
Worksheet - Higher ANS Foundation ANS
Power Questions. Always fun to start lesson with white boards, and explain power by getting students into a line, and collect their "joule" of energy at a slow then fast rate (watts)
EVQ and QIT equation practice...
Worksheet - Higher ANS Foundation ANS
Getting students to use both the E= VQ equation and the Q = It
Efficiency...
Using the pictures of appliances here
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You can get pupils to answer the questions here :
Foundation Answers
Higher Answers
Getting students to use both the E= VQ equation and the Q = It
The Big Questions
Extended writing task to see what the students know.
The big question is for students to looks the questions How is electricity supplied from a power station to my mobile phone?
The Big Questions
Extended writing task to see what the students know.
The big question is for students to analyse a how energy travels through the national grid to our mobile phone charger.
Power of a charger is 5W USB1 (1A at 5V) or ipads 10W USB2 (2A at 5V)