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 * Unit 9K: Record breakers 3 weeks **
 * ** Topic 1: Record breakers ** ||
 * Learning objectives || Learning strategies – p 271 || Resources ||
 * * Explain what is meant by speed.
 * Use a formula to calculate speed.
 * Explain what mean speed means.
 * Rearrange the speed formula to calculate distance or time. || * Starter: Book p 127: read and answer all questions
 * Practical: measuring speed – demonstration
 * Practical: investigating speed
 * Book p128-129: read and answer all questions
 * Measuring speeds – worksheet 9 Ka (7)
 * Plenary: Quick check
 * HW: worksheet || * Exploring Science Year 9 text
 * Equipment to show how speed can be measured
 * Equipment and worksheet 9Ka (3) for investigating speed
 * Worksheet 9Ka (7)
 * Quick check 9Ka
 * 789science wikispace
 * Other worksheets: see below ||
 * Connections:
 * IGCSE physics section || Assessment:
 * Plenary: Quick check || Support/extension:
 * Access: worksheet 9Ka (1)
 * Must: worksheet 9Ka (6) and (7)
 * Worksheets 9Ka (8) (most) or (9) (some) ||


 * ** Topic 2: Feel the force ** ||
 * Learning objectives || Learning strategies – p 276 || Resources ||
 * * Identify the forces on objects.
 * Describe the effects of balanced forces on a moving object.
 * Describe the effects of unbalanced forces on a moving object.
 * Explain why a car needs a force from the engine to keep moving at a steady speed. || * Starter: forces connectives
 * Ideas about forces – AT presentation
 * The table cloth trick – Youtube video
 * Book p 130-131: read and answer all questions
 * Practical: friction free movement – demonstration
 * HW: worksheet || * Exploring Science Year 9 text
 * AT presentation
 * Youtube video
 * Equipment to show friction free movement
 * 789science wikispace
 * Other worksheets: see below ||
 * Connections:
 * IGCSE physics section || Assessment:
 * Plenary: Revisit ideas about forces || Support/extension:
 * Access: worksheet 9Kb (1)
 * Must: worksheet 9Kb (3)
 * Worksheets 9Kb (4) (most) or (5) (some) ||


 * ** Topic 3: Changing speed ** ||
 * Learning objectives || Learning strategies – p 280 || Resources ||
 * * Explain what acceleration means.
 * Explain how mass and force affect acceleration.
 * Use a formula to calculate acceleration from a change in speed.
 * Use a formula to calculate acceleration from a force and a mass. || * Starter: thought experiment
 * Practical: how much acceleration?
 * Acceleration results – AB spreadsheets
 * Book p 122-133: read and answer all questions
 * Practical: a model for falling bodies
 * HW: worksheets || * Exploring Science Year 9 text
 * Equipment for how much acceleration and a model for falling bodies
 * AB spreadsheets
 * 789science wikispace
 * Other worksheets: see below ||
 * Connections:
 * IGCSE physics section || Assessment:
 * Plenary: revisit pulling away - AT presentation || Support/extension:
 * Access: worksheet 9Kc (1)
 * Must: worksheet 9Kc (4) and (5)
 * Worksheets 9Kc (6) and (7) (most) or (8) (some) ||


 * ** Topic 4: Hitting the limit ** ||
 * Learning objectives || Learning strategies – p 284 || Resources ||
 * * Describe how the forces on a skydiver change during a jump.
 * Explain why skydivers reach a maximum speed.
 * Interpret distance–timegraphs.
 * Interpret speed–time graphs. || * Starter: Quick check
 * Book p 134-135: read and answer all questions
 * Top speed – AT video
 * Speed-time graphs – worksheet 9Kd (6)
 * Book p 136-137: read and answer all questions
 * Book p138: read and answer questions
 * Plenary: Quick quiz revisited
 * HW: revise for test || * Exploring Science Year 9 text
 * Quick check 9Kb
 * AT video
 * Worksheet 9Kd(6)
 * 789science wikispace
 * Other worksheets: see below ||
 * Connections:
 * IGCSE biology section || Assessment:
 * End of unit test || Support/extension:
 * Access: worksheet 9Kd (1) and (2)
 * Must: worksheet 9Kd (5) and (6)
 * Worksheets 9Kd (7) (most) or (8) (some) ||