Physical World resources

Task: Match terms with definition. Assessment focus: science vocabulary.

Students place five statements in order to show how sound travels from its source to the brain.

Task: Give examples of described energy transformations, and name energy transformations involved with named objects.

Task: Select the corect term for stored energy, identify the type of stored energy of three examples, and describe energy transformations. Assessment focus: potential energy.

Students investigate magnetic repulsion using two magnets and pieces of iron. They are assessed on their understanding of like poles repelling.

Students name the force that delivers water to households from a water tower and then explain advantages and disadvantages of a wind-powered pump compared to a petrol-powered pump.

Students use a circuit diagram to answer questions about how removing bulbs affects the other bulbs in the circuit. Assessment focus: Electrical circuits

Students use circuit diagrams to answer three questions about switches and which lamps will light up.

Task: Match each part of a torch to its name, identify whether the torch in the diagram is on or off and provide evidence for opinion, and suggest ways to make the torchlight brighter. Assessment focus: parts of a torch and the function of some of these parts.

Students are given some information on levers. They use this to label the pivot, load, and effort force on four other common examples of levers.

Identify from four circuit diagrams which bulbs will light up. Assessment focus: electrical circuits.

Students indicate on a circuit diagram where they would place switches in order to achieve various situations, such as the lamps being on, off, and other combinations.

Students are given six different circuit diagrams. They state how brightly these bulbs will glow when compared to another circuit.

This resource assess students' understanding of circuits when they explain what is wrong in five different circuit diagrams.

Students use a diagram of a circuit to answer questions about which bulbs are in parallel and which are in series. Students are also required to put a switch into the circuit diagram provided.

Students indicate how brightly a bulb would glow in three different circuits. Students then use pictures of four appliances, showing the arrangement of their cells, to draw circuit symbol diagrams illustrating this cell arrangement.

Task: Describe how the light rays move through a glass prism.

Task: Answer questions about the surface of water in a water cooler on a moving train. Assessment focus: forces.

Task: complete 2 diagrams. Assessment focus: centre of gravity.

Students select which of five compass orientations best show the direction of a magnetic field at four different locations.

Students answer a multiple choice question about what happens when a magnetised object is cut in half, and then draw the lines of the magnetic field around two magnets.

Task: draw a diagram showing how a periscope works. Assessment focus: reflected light.

Students describe what makes two boats move and change direction.

Task: Answer questions about rowing. Assessment focus: levers.

Task: Answer questions about levers. Assessment focus: levers.