Teaching and Learning

Here we offer guidance on general issues related to teaching and learning practical physics. These guidance notes apply across two or more, sometimes many, physics topics.

• Demonstration or class experiment?
• Asking questions
• Physics for all?
• Why do practical work in school science?
• Health and Safety statement
• Making laboratory notes
• Using simulations and animations
• Classroom management in semi-darkness
• Using video clips
• Putting together a scheme of work
• Videos and other IoP activities