Lesson Plan 2 Week 2

Topic: Energy (Practical)

Class: Year 8.0
When/Where: Line 4/ 2SC09
Lesson Prepared by: Adam Biggs

What are the students going to learn?

Today students are going to be doing the Bouncing Balls Practical In this
practical students will be asked to complete one of two inquiry questions but will
ultimately learn about energy efficiency and losses of energy that can be found
in regular everyday activities such as bouncing a ball.
This practical asks them to identify what sort of energy losses are taking shape
when they bounce the ball and why. They should take things into account such as
how hard the surface they are bouncing the ball on is, whether the weight of the
object will make it fall harder or not, and whether energy efficiency will change
based on any of their different scenarios.
Resources:
For this lesson I will require:
- White board
- White Board markers
- HDMI adaptor
- Smart board
- Practical guide
- All kids should have laptops
- 14 tennis balls
- 14 rulers
- Portable mouse
Assessment/ Feedback for students
In this lesson my method of assessment will be going through the practical
worksheet and seeing that they actually understand how they are going to
complete the practical. Students should identify a variety of different ideas about
surfaces to bounce their ball on or different heights and should demonstrate the
ability to identify an appropriate number of trials for the experiment in the time
allocated for the task. This task will be summative and so I will remind students
that this is the case and that the finished product will be due on the final
Thursday of my visit in week 9. Students should demonstrate that they
understand experimental design and what makes a good method good, i.e.
recording the height of the ball drop at eye level and having one person
completing the experiment at a time.
Lesson Outline
Introducing the lesson (First 5 minutes):
 - To begin the lesson I will arrive early and have the equipment in the room
allocated if it isnt already. I will write my instructions for the lesson on the
board this will be outlined as such:
1. Open laptops, go to moodle page and open up Bouncing Balls Practical
under Mr Biggs Energy.
2. Once the file is open follow my instructions.
As students go to sit down I will be taking the roll and if any student did
not show up to the lunch time punishment then I will inform that of the
fact that I will sending a letter home to their parents.
Commencing the Lesson (Following 15 minutes)
- As we begin to go through the lesson students will first be asked to read
different parts of the practical. Once we have gotten through the
background reading and the introduction I will then demonstrate a sample
calculation even though it is on the practical sheet so that students can
understand and see the process themselves.
- Students will then be given the opportunity to assess the risks, students
will then get into the groups I have assigned for them. There should be 14
groups assuming everybody is present. I will need 7 partners to do the
first practical and 7 to do the other, although ultimately it doesnt matter
as the equipment is the same. Students will not be allowed to move onto
the next step of their practical until I can say that yes they have finished
step 1, step 2 and so on.
Middle of the lesson (Next 30 minutes)
- Students should have finished step 1 of the practical by now and if they
havent they should be in the process of getting it approved by me.
Remainder of the lesson (25 minutes)
- Students should be completing their practical, should have results
recorded during this time, should have started and finished their
calculations , written up a conclusion and should have packed up their
materials used for the practical placing them back where they found it.