Aimed at new and trainee physics teachers particularly non-specialists, this book provides the knowledge and skills you need to teach physics effectively at secondary level. It provides the historical narrative of the Big Ideas in physics, explaining the significance of each idea and its place in scientific history. Each Big Idea comes with a set of lesson activities that get your students to think alongside clear explanations of how they can be used. It also discusses the models used to explain complex ideas and suggests methods of assessing learning. Including a wide range of teaching strategies, this book will help you to become a skilled physics teacher who gets great results.

Ben Rogers teaches physics and trains new teachers for Paradigm Trust. He is a former lecturer on the Physics Enhancement Course at the University of East London, UK.

Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter Zero A Big Idea about Learning Chapter 1. Electricity Chapter 2. Forces at a Distance Chapter 3. Energy Chapter 4. Particles Chapter 5. The Universe