Thoughts about Physics and teaching Physics
Space is my favourite topic in Physics. Not only because all pupils will, in their lives, have looked up at the night's sky and started to wonder, but because Space ties several topics of Physics together into one beautiful, unified whole.
I believe retrieval practice is one of the most important aspects of my lessons. The pupils enter the room in silence to find nine interleaved retrieval questions on a grid. They then sit in silence to tackle the questions before we, as a class, go through the answers using cold calling.
Silly questions help spark detailed Physics debate. They are incredibly powerful ways to get your pupils to think outside the box, to increase their knowledge, and to build connections and bridges in their understanding.
Physics is about questioning the Universe around us. A universal way to scaffold is to ask "why" and "so what." Such simple questions can take a pupil from their entry point in a description to a detailed account of the underlying Physics. A great tool!
Physics Thinking 