Physics
104 free lessons in The School on Ai Quran, from Early Years to GCSE.
Early Years
- The four seasons
- Day, night and the sky
- Pushes and pulls
- Light and dark
- Loud and quiet sounds
- Fast and slow
- Shadows
- Bouncy and not bouncy
- Falling through the air
- Spinning and turning
- Wind and moving air
- Bubbles: round and popping
- Testing parachutes
- Kites and catching the wind
- Balancing and stacking things
- A balloon that flies by itself
Key Stage 1
- Light, shadows and reflection
- Sounds around us
- Magnets
- Seasons and how day length changes
- The Sun, daylight and staying safe
- Pushes, pulls and how things move
- Light sources and reflectors
- Materials that block or let through light
- How sounds are made: vibrations
- Sound travels through different things
- Making a shaker loud or soft
- Magnetic attraction at a distance
- Using a compass: magnets that point north
- Bigger push, bigger effect
- Weather through the four seasons
- Measuring temperature with a thermometer
Key Stage 2
- Pushes, pulls and friction
- Earth, Sun and Moon
- How sound travels
- Simple circuits
- Gravity, resistance and mechanisms
- Light and how we see
- Circuits, symbols and brightness
- Magnets: poles, attraction and repulsion
- Shadows and how they change
- Pitch and volume
- The Moon, the planets and their movement
- Reflection and how mirrors work
- Balanced and unbalanced forces
- Comparing forces with a newton meter
- Opaque, translucent and transparent materials
- How a compass uses a magnet to find north
- Everyday uses of magnets
- Insulating sound: reducing how far it travels
- How loudspeakers and microphones use vibrations
- Making music: how different instruments produce pitch
- Electrical safety in the home
- Series and parallel circuits: predicting brightness
- Man-made satellites and what they are used for
- Comparing the sizes and order of the planets
- Comparing day length on different planets
- Streamlined shapes and moving through air and water
- A closer look at pulleys: single vs double
- How colour is made by light
- How a periscope uses two mirrors
- Curved mirrors: concave and convex
- How sound is recorded and played back
- Why we always see the same side of the Moon
Key Stage 3
- Mass, weight and gravity
- Moments, levers and turning forces
- Speed, distance and motion graphs
- Forces, motion and speed
- Energy and how it moves
- Reflection and refraction
- The solar system and beyond
- Current, voltage and resistance
- Sound waves and hearing
- Density and pressure
- Magnetism and electromagnets
- Energy resources and efficiency
- Kinetic and gravitational potential energy
- Specific heat capacity
- Wave basics: amplitude, wavelength, frequency and speed
- Lenses and how the eye forms an image
- Gravity and orbits
- The life cycle of a star
- Ohm's law and resistors
- The motor effect: how electricity makes things turn
- Echoes and using sound to measure distance
- Musical instruments and how they make different sounds
- Pressure in liquids: why deep water pushes harder
- Gas pressure and the particle model
GCSE
- Static electricity
- Momentum and why cars crumple
- Stars, red shift and the expanding universe
- Mains electricity and power
- Radioactivity and half-life
- Energy stores and transfers
- Circuits — current, voltage, resistance
- Waves and the electromagnetic spectrum
- Required practicals and exam skills
- Particle model and atomic structure
- Magnetism and electromagnetism
- Forces, motion and Newton’s laws
- Particle model: density and internal energy
- Energy resources: renewable and non-renewable
- Forces, elasticity and Hooke’s law
- Electromagnetic induction and transformers
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