'Modern hospitals have changed enormously in your lifetime. Thanks to amazing technological advances, we can see what is happening inside the body in more and more detail. Much of this is because of the work of medical physicists.' These practicals and videos use a workplace context to help students discover how...

Five activity sheets produced by the Institute of Physics (IOP) to accompany the Model Project's Physical Health video.

Worksheet one takes an overview of the topic. Worksheets two - five are targeted at specific sections of the video.

Answers to all the worksheet questions are provided in the Word...

Three practicals produced by the Institute of Physics (IOP) that help students to understand some of the physics used in medical analysis. In addition to the guidance included for specific activities, please refer to the generic health and safety information before commencing any practical activity. This resource...

This video, from the Institute of Physics (IOP), shows medical scientists at work using a variety of sophisticated devices which use principles of physics to investigate what is happening inside the body.

The video is presented as a whole but for ease of use, the following sections are available at the...

A collection of resources from the SYCD Primary CD investigating physical processes. The major resources are: *Experience the moon - an activity for more able pupils enabling them to use independent research skills to produce a well-reasoned analysis of a travel poster for holidays on the Moon, in order to produce...

These resources, produced by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme in partnership with the PhySEP Project at the University of Birmingham, are aimed at Initial Teacher Training (ITT) mentors and Advanced Skills Teachers (ASTs), acting as coaches to teacher colleagues. Originally published as a CD-ROM, the...

This resource uses the context of a car to distinguish between physical and chemical changes. The activities could be used after the concept of physical and chemical changes has been taught to reinforce the learning.  A series of differentiated worksheets describe events that happen to a car and pupils have to help...

A multiple choice quiz on physical chemistry for A/AS level chemistry.

Although it is written for OCR AS/A level chemistry A and B (H032, H432,  H033, H433), it can be edited to suit your scheme of work.

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Identify natural ways in which rock can be physically broken up.           
• Identify natural ways in which rock can be eroded.    
• Describe the difference between...

This collection from Physicists in Primary Schools (PIPS) is designed to interest and enthuse young children with the enjoyment and excitement of physics. Developed by a team from the University of Sheffield for the Institute of Physics (IOP), it is designed to support primary school teachers particularly with...

From the Integrating Mathematical Problem Solving project by Mathematics for Education and Industry (MEI), this activity for post-16 students demonstrates that coffee cools gradually because it is hotter than room temperature and heat is lost to the room. Mixing the coffee with milk also cools it but this effect is...

The films in this collection cover aspects of space science, including telescopes, black holes, dark matter, the scale of the universe and light years.

From the Integrating Mathematical Problem Solving project by MEI, this series of activities explores how mechanical oscillations are important in many areas of everyday life. Sometimes they are useful, for example the motion of the suspension on a car, sometimes they...

The pack contains three packages of physics-based activities for STEM clubs:

• section 1 contains nine activities, each of which can be run over two to three sessions.
• section 2 contains 20 short “physics to go” experiments, most of which also have an accompanying video.
• ...

These resources are from the Institute of Physics and consist of a range of posters that illustrate physics-related careers. The posters cover a wide range of careers and include:

Physicists Predict, Protect, Inspire and Save: Nicola Lang - geophysicist, Emma Sowter - medical physicist,  ...