Physics Emergency Sub Plans - 5 Days No Prep Print and Go Reading Worksheets

Five full days of substitute-ready physics in one no-prep download, built for the problem that makes a physics absence harder than most: physics is almost never the covering teacher's subject, and in a lot of buildings there is no second physics teacher to ask. Nothing here asks a substitute to teach it, and no required page asks a student to solve for an unknown — the one arithmetic item in the week sits in an optional if-you-finish-early box on Day 2 and ships with a worked answer key. Each day is an original nonfiction reading with every answer on the handout, followed by a page built to catch its own mistakes, and a run sheet at the front tells the substitute exactly what to hand out and what to print. The five days run the first-year course in order — motion, forces, energy and momentum, waves and light, electricity and magnetism — so this is a week of coursework rather than a folder of activities. You come back to a complete set of answer keys and a class that kept working.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

- Sub & Teacher Notes run sheet (what to hand out each day, what to print, and why the substitute does not need to grade anything)

- 5 days of student work, two pages per day (67 questions total)

- 5 original nonfiction readings written for this packet, one per day

- 5 complete answer keys, one per day

- Single 17-page PDF: run sheet and student pages first (pages 1-11), an "Answer Keys" divider on page 12, then the keys (pages 13-17) -- print pages 1-11 to hand out the whole week without printing the keys

- PDF bookmarks for one-click navigation by day

- US Letter, low-ink, two-sided printable

WHY A SUBSTITUTE CAN ACTUALLY RUN THIS

- Every question is answered by the reading on the same handout, so a stuck student re-reads the passage instead of asking the sub a subject question

- Every second page checks itself -- answers pair off, spell out a phrase, or fall into a sequence, so a wrong answer is caught by the student, not adjudicated by the sub

- Every day has an "if you finish early" challenge, so nobody runs out of work

- No device, textbook, login, or internet needed

THE 5 DAYS

1. Motion -- position, distance and displacement, speed, velocity, acceleration, and reading motion graphs (14 questions, answer match)

2. Forces -- Newton's three laws, net force, free-body thinking, friction, and universal gravitation (14 questions, word decoder)

3. Energy and Momentum -- work, kinetic and potential energy, conservation, momentum, impulse and collisions (12 questions, sequence path)

4. Waves, Sound and Light -- wave properties, sound, the electromagnetic spectrum, reflection and refraction (14 questions, answer match)

5. Electricity and Magnetism -- charge, current, voltage and resistance, series and parallel circuits, fields and induction (13 questions, word decoder)

Each day stands alone, so they can run in any order or be pulled one at a time.

PERFECT FOR

- Emergency and planned substitute days in Physics (grades 9-12)

- Planned absences, professional development days, and testing weeks when you are pulled to proctor

- Review before a test, the first week of school, or the day before a break

- Homeschool families working through Physics

STANDARDS TOUCHED

CCSS ELA/Literacy reading standards for science and technical subjects: RST.9-10.1, RST.9-10.2, RST.9-10.4 and RST.9-10.7. The first three are earned by the comprehension questions and the daily vocabulary-in-context item; RST.9-10.7 rides two items that turn information expressed in words into visual form — Day 5's labeled parallel circuit drawn from the passage, and Day 1's sketched distance-time and velocity-time pair. Plus the NGSS physical-science core ideas HS-PS2, HS-PS3 and HS-PS4 at reading depth. No NGSS performance expectation is claimed. Nothing is listed that the content does not actually do.

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