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In the last episode, Robin and Thomas were delighted to welcome Charles Tracy to talk about teaching energy at KS3. Charles generously agreed to come back for the next episode: energy at KS4
Charles lays out the rationale for talking energy using the correct terms: using adverbial forms really helps to enshrine the principal that energy is not a tangible ‘thing’ rather a quantity that we observe is conserved before and after a separate process has occurred. Energy is stored kinetically, gravitationally, chemically and so forth (nuclear-ly is still problematic though).
At KS4 the trick is to focus on the calculation. “If you’re not going to do a calculation, there’s no point talking energy”.
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Please share ideas or successes – or indeed questions by messaging us on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/physicstp.bsky.social . You can also message us via our website contact form on every page of the web site at the.physicsteachingpodcast.com, or email using the address given in the podcast (if we remember). We are moving away from X but can be found there as @physicstp.
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- Season 7: Physics Is Our Business by Miracles of Modern Science.
The music is used under the Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License
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By Thomas W-P and Robin Griffiths with Rosie McTavish
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In the last episode, Robin and Thomas were delighted to welcome Charles Tracy to talk about teaching energy at KS3. Charles generously agreed to come back for the next episode: energy at KS4
Charles lays out the rationale for talking energy using the correct terms: using adverbial forms really helps to enshrine the principal that energy is not a tangible ‘thing’ rather a quantity that we observe is conserved before and after a separate process has occurred. Energy is stored kinetically, gravitationally, chemically and so forth (nuclear-ly is still problematic though).
At KS4 the trick is to focus on the calculation. “If you’re not going to do a calculation, there’s no point talking energy”.
Links
Join in!
Please share ideas or successes – or indeed questions by messaging us on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/physicstp.bsky.social . You can also message us via our website contact form on every page of the web site at the.physicsteachingpodcast.com, or email using the address given in the podcast (if we remember). We are moving away from X but can be found there as @physicstp.
Music
- Season 7: Physics Is Our Business by Miracles of Modern Science.
The music is used under the Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License
<p id="cfx-noscript" class="cfx-noscript">Please enable JavaScript to use the contact form.</p>Your Name Your Email Email Subject How many L in the word LULLABY? Your Message Send a copy to your email address? Send Message