Year 10 - Physics end of year Exam

Year 10 you should ensure that you study the following subjects in detail:

• Chapter 4 - Forces and Energy - Pages 71-88


• Chapter 5 - Thermal Effects - Pages 97-115


• Chapter 6 - Waves, Sounds and Vibrations - Pages 123-137

You may find it useful to make a copy of the checklists at the end of each chapter and tick the items that you know, as well as taking the examination questions at the end of each chapter if you haven't already done so. Feel free to write the answers in your physics exercise books.

If you need to gain a little more confidence and get some more practice of real exam papers, try the past exam papers on the Cambridge IGCSE site. Questions you will get will be taken from Paper 1 (Multiple Choice), Paper 2 (Core longer answer), Paper 3 (Extended longer answer) and Paper 6 (Alternative to practical) so you may want to download the relevant papers from 2005 on the CIE site and familiarise yourself with what they look like.

Another good resource for you to use is the Cambridge Student site, which has some further past papers and tips, along with model answers, games and checklists. The Checklist is actually very good, so well worth downloading and printing out

BBC Bitesize is perhaps not detailed enough at your level but has some good tests and some easily accesible revision notes, so you may want to check that out too

Another site I haven't looked too closely at is crampuppy, that has a few past papers on it and some revision notes and for past GCSE papers (not IGCSE papers) try the paper bank

Remember, that if you do the work and see many past papers and do the questions, the chances are that the questions will come up. There are only a limited number of questions that you can be asked, so the more you do the more likely you are to be able to do well! Practice makes perfect!

Year 9 - End of Year SAT exam

Year 9

You will be tested on everything that you have learnt in science up to now.

You will have started practice papers in class to help you to get more confident in these types of papers. There is a lot of material to get in.

To ensure that you gain more confidence in these papers I would strongly recommend that you download the past SAT Science papers from this site. On this site they have genuine past papers that you can download for free and practice for yourself. They also include the markschemes so that you can see what the examiner will give you marks for.

I would also recommend BBC Bitesize to help you revise.

The SATS Paper site also has past papers in English and Maths, so if you need to get more practice at these then get these papers too.

Practice makes perfect!

Year 8 - End of Year exam - topics to be studied

As mentioned in class, the topics you need to study year 8 are as follows:

• 8G - Rocks and Weathering - Pages 75-86


• 8I - Heating and Cooling - Pages 97-112

Recommended revision sites are BBC Bitesize and Science Pages

Also I have reset the 2 online quizzes you have taken and may add another, so you can log on to quizstar and do these to help you revise.

Year 7 - End of Year exam - topics to be studied

As I mentioned in class the topics to be studied by year 7 for the end of year exams are as follows

• 7I - Energy Resources - Pages 99-110


• 7J - Electrical Circuits - Pages 111-124

Suggested resources for revision include the excellent BBC Bitesize website and also I have reset all the online quizzes that I wrote for 3 of the topics covered, so you ay take these any time, in school or at home with the login names that you were given.

To get to quizzes click here

Year 10 Computer quiz lesson

Year 10 - today you will be taking an online quiz on Waves, Sound and Vibration in preparation for your forthcoming test.

To take the test >>>click here to go to Quizstar<<< and log in with the username and password you were given last time.

Just as a reminder, your username will be in the form temsyr1000_ _ where the last 2 numbers are your individual login number according to where you are in the register. You should have this written down somewhere.

Once you have logged in take the test entitled Year 10 - Waves Sounds and Vibrations

You will have 2 attempts with 25 minutes each time.

Good luck!

When you have finished, you are still here to revise, so you will be expected to continue with your revision, using online resources. One resource you can use is BBC Bitesize, which has some excellent online tests you can take to prepare yourself.

Youtube is NOT an option for revision, and as usual, if you decide that you can't revise using a computer, then your computer will be switched off and you will be expected to revise using your books.

Ripple Tank - Year 10

Year 10 - I would strongly recommend that you read up and look at ripple tank experiments on the web before the test on Wednesday as you have been unable to see the results yourself in class. One I can recommend is the Wikipedia entry on ripple tanks

Year 9 - When you've finished

You are here to revise so if you finish early go to the BBC's Bitesize website and try their tests. All preparation is good preparation!

Games about Electricity

Well done Javier for finding this site

Year 7 - End of test

Once you've finished try taking the quiz on the BBC Bitesize website

Year 7 Computer lesson

Year 7 - you are in the computer labs today to revise for Mondays test on Electrical circuits. You are not here to play and waste time

To take the online test go to the Quizstar site and log in using the password and username given to you

Year 10 test

Year 10 test on Sound and soundwaves will be on Wednesday 30th May

Year 9 test on Pressure

Year 9 test on Pressure will be first lesson next week, 9P Monday 28th May, 9S on Tuesday 29th May

Year 7 Test next Monday

I've already mentioned in class, year 7 test on unit 7J next Monday, the 28th of May, both classes

Real science questions and answers

The New Scientist magazine is a great magazine for reading about real life advances in science and every issue it has a section called "The Last Word" in which people ask questions that are science related but a litle puzzling, like "Does anything eat wasps" and the next month someone writes in with the answer.

You can find the latest questions and answers on their site here

Some pictures for Biology students taken with a Scanning Electron Microscope

Check out this site for pics of small creatures taken with a very powerful microscope.

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/7649/index.htm

For year 10, the reason that this microscope is so powerful is that the microscope uses electrons which have a very short wavelength (high frequency) and so they don't difract until the gaps between the objects being scanned become very very small.

Year 8 Books due in last lesson this week

Year 8 books will be taken in for marking at the end of this week, that means Thursday for 8P, Friday for 8C

Year 10 - The mosquito ringtone

I mentioned in class about a ringtone that you can download that has such a high frequency that I think only the girls will hear it.

Check it out here on http://www.freemosquitoringtone.org/about.php

All sound are waves and different frequencies (pitch) give different sounds. The theory is that as you get older your hearing decreases and you hear less frequencies of sound.

So they invented a ringtone that has a really high frequency and in theory older people (i.e. your parents) would not be able to hear the phone if you have a really high frequency!

Try out the ringtones on http://www.freemosquitoringtone.org/

Year 8 Flying object project

Don't forget to bring in your materials for creating your flying objects next lesson. Remember that the main fuel will be a piece of cotton wool dipped in alcohol. You only get one chance to make it take off so a good design is vital

Year 7 books due in - reminder

Year 7 books will be collected in last lesson this week as you have been told in class.