AQA Combined Science Waves workbook / booklet

AQA GCSE Combined Science (Trilogy) Physics – Waves Student Workbook | 11 Lessons | Required Practicals 20 & 21

Description:

A complete, ready-to-print student workbook covering the entire Waves topic for AQA GCSE Combined Science: Trilogy (8464). Designed to be used lesson by lesson in class, it gives students everything they need in one place: retrieval, new content, practice and exam technique.

What's included (105 pages):

• Contents page and a Knowledge Organiser of 40+ Tier 3 keywords with clear definitions
• 11 fully structured lessons, each following the same routine: Do Now retrieval quiz, learning objectives, previous learning link, new learning, Working Scientifically task and a Practice Zone of exam-style questions with mark allocations
• 115 numbered exam-style questions, from 1-mark recall to extended 4–6 mark explanations
• "Exam trap" boxes highlighting the misconceptions that cost students marks
• Working Scientifically skills built in throughout (WS 1.2, 1.4, 2.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.7)
• Higher Tier content clearly labelled

Lessons covered:

1. What is a wave? Transverse and longitudinal waves
2. Wave properties (amplitude, wavelength, frequency, period, oscilloscope traces)
3. Wave calculations (v = fλ, T = 1/f, unit conversions, standard form)
4. Required Practical 20: measuring wave speed in water (ripple tank)
5. Required Practical 20 continued: waves in a solid and the speed of sound in air
6. Electromagnetic waves and the EM spectrum
7. Reflection, absorption, transmission and refraction (including ray diagrams)
8. Required Practical 21: infrared radiation and surface type (Leslie cube)
9. Uses of electromagnetic waves
10. Radio waves, atoms and nuclei
11. Hazards, risk and radiation dose

Ideal for: classroom teaching, cover lessons, homework, catch-up and independent revision. Written by an experienced Head of Science.

Format: Editable Word document (.docx), so you can adapt it to your classes. Students write directly into the booklet. A TEACHER BOOKLET WITH MARK SCHEMES IS INCLUDED.