Physics – Home Learning

Welcome to the SSERC Physics Home Learning page.

Here at SSERC we are doing our best to support home learning. In addition to the large amount of resources already on our website (https://www.sserc.org.uk/subject-areas/physics) we have added some others that might help more specifically support teachers learning at home.

Self-Study courses for teachers:

We have  been working to develop courses that you can use to update your skills.

  • To complement our optical radiation and electrical safety courses, we have added another physics safety course that covers many of the areas not included in the two exisiting courses.
  • Electrical safety self-study course.
  • Optical radiation self-study course.
  • Mobile Devices self-study course.

Our courses are for SSERC members. If you work in a Scottish state school you are a SSERC member. Those in most independent schools and many FE colleges are too.  (You may find that activities described in the course are adaptable for student use at home).

Our Mobile devices course has been adapted from our Blended learning course and features activities such as:

  • Take a video of a moving object, analyse it and generate motion graphs
  • Demonstrate sound engineering and noise cancellation
  • Access your device’s internal sensors, make and record measurements
  • Investigate the Doppler effect and even the uncertainty principle
  • Create animations

All physics courses that are currently open for delegate applications and further details can be found on our physics professional learning page.

SSERC TV

Introduction to BeeSpiV

Playlist of helpful videos for technicians

Playlist of SSERCMeets (particle physics, quantum physics, special and general relativity, semiconductors, astrophysics)

Other (Non-SSERC) Resources

IOP

IOP support for physics during covid19

The links below take you to pdf documents of areas of physics arranged by topic for different age groups and includes links to further activities.

16-18

11-14

14-16

Perimeter Institute

The Perimeter Institute in Ontario, Canada has many useful resources on its website (https://www.perimeterinstitute.ca)

A guide to adapting Perimeter’s resources for online classrooms can be found here: