GCSE Physics Concepts

The program provides superb simulations of three standard Physics practicals used to illustrate Hooke's Law, Boyle's Law and Ohm's Law. It also includes a nifty animated plane that can be used to show the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces. It is designed to be used with an interactive whiteboard and has a simple but visually appealing format which really works. Physconcepts 5.75 comes with 10 programs embedded and 12 high quality videos. The teacher can differentiate tasks and lessons. Highly recommended.

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Content Evaluation Summary
Physics Concepts provides superb simulations of three standard physics practicals used to illustrate Hooke's Law, Boyle's Law and Ohm's Law. It also includes a nifty animated plane that can be used to show the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces. It is designed to be used with an interactive whiteboard and has a simple but visually appealling format which really works. The Ohm's Law simulation is particularly useful. As a button is clicked to increase the voltage, the ammeter reading changes; a graph of voltage against current plots, and the equation changes size to reflect the new values of the variables. One button press changes the resistor value and another turns the circuit diagram into an analogous water circuit.
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Classroom Evaluation Summary
The software is simple to use and shows very clear examples of the situations it is designed to help teach about. The graphics and text are very useful to help show the dynamics of the experiments on the equations and are particularly good for data projector or interactive whiteboard users. The ability to download the worksheets in Word format and edit them helped in making them totally appropriate for the individual lesson.
The software was used to help summarise and assess pupils studying Forces at Key Stage 4, particularly Balanced and Unbalanced Forces. I used the scenario of the aeroplane as a plenary activity to help assess how well the pupils had learned during the course of the lesson and previous lesson. The other scenarios were used with small groups in revision and extra help sessions. This aided them in coursework and to generally understand graphs and equation relationships.
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