Physical World resources

Students are asked to match six everyday objects to the main energy transformation that occurs in each of these objects.

Task: Include three given words in an explanation about how ramps work. Assessment focus: work, distance and force.

Task: Identify the colours on a taxi sitting under a red streetlight. Assessment focus: Coloured light can be produced by blocking some parts of the spectrum.

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

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.

For this task students look at a diagram showing household electrical wires and then answer some questions about these.

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 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.

Task: Predict which objects will float. Assessment focus: flotation.