VCE Physics: Sample teaching plan Sample Course Outline VCE Physics Unit 3: How do fields explain motion and electricity? – Note: This is a sample guide only and indicates one way to present the content from the Study Design over the weeks in each school term. Teachers are advised to consider their own contexts in developing learning activities: Which local fieldwork sites would support learning in the topic area? Which local issues lend themselves to debate and investigation? Which experiments can students complete within the resource limitations of their learning environments? Week Area Topics Learning activities 1 Demonstrations: Van de Graaf generator Fields and interactions (description, investigation and Laboratory stations: exploration of ‘fields’ comparison of gravitational, magnetic and electric fields; comparison of gravitational and electric fields about a point Experiment: Coulomb’s Law mass or charge; application of a vector field model to 2 Experiment: electric field in a wire magnetic phenomena; identification of fields as static or Experiment: investigation of the motion of a magnet as it rolls down an changing, and as uniform or non-uniform) inclined plane How do things move 3 Effects of fields (use of an electric field to accelerate a without contact? Practical activity: magnet and CRO investigation charge; use of a magnetic field to change the path of a 4 Practical investigation: DC motor charged particle; use of gravitational fields to accelerate mass) Explanation of the operation of a selected electromagnetic device 5 Research: Maglev trains 6 Application of field concepts (application of force due to Spreadsheet: analysis of the satellite motion of moons in the Solar System gravity and normal force; satellite motion; analysis of force Model: construction and calibration of an accelerometer on a current carrying conductor due to an external magnetic 7 field; operation of simple DC motors; particle accelerators) 8 Generation of electricity (magnetic flux; generation of emf; Experiment: electromagnetic induction production of DC voltage in DC generators and AC voltage Demonstrations: electromagnetic induction 9 in alternators) How are fields used to move electrical 10 Transmission of electricity (production of sinusoidal AC Investigation: deconstruction of an old computer transformer energy? voltages; comparison of alternating voltage and constant Demonstration: transmission lines DC voltage; conversion between values of voltage and 11 Problem-solving: design a solution that harnesses the electric field of an current; transformers; power supply; use of AC power for
VCE Physics: Sample teaching plan Sample Course Outline – VCE Physics Unit 3: How do fields explain motion and electricity? Note: This is a sample guide only and indicates one way to present the content from the Study Design over the weeks in each school term. Teachers are advised to consider their own contexts in developing learning activities: Which local fieldwork sites would support learning in the topic area? Which local issues lend themselves to debate and investigation? Which experiments can students complete within the resource limitations of their learning environments? Week Area Topics Learning activities 1 How do things move without contact? Fields and interactions (description, investigation and comparison of gravitational, magnetic and electric fields; comparison of gravitational and electric fields about a point mass or charge; application of a vector field model to magnetic phenomena; identification of fields as static or changing, and as uniform or non-uniform) Demonstrations: Van de Graaf generator Laboratory stations: exploration of ‘fields’ Experiment: Coulomb’s Law Experiment: electric field in a wire Experiment: investigation of the motion of a magnet as it rolls down an inclined plane 2 3 Effects of fields (use of an electric field to accelerate a charge; use of a magnetic field to change the path of a charged particle; use of gravitational fields to accelerate mass) Practical activity: magnet and CRO investigation Practical investigation: DC motor Explanation of the operation of a selected electromagnetic device Research: Maglev trains Spreadsheet: analysis of the satellite motion of moons in the Solar System Model: construction and calibration of an accelerometer 4 5 6 Application of field concepts (application of force due to gravity and normal force; satellite motion; analysis of force on a current carrying conductor due to an external magnetic field; operation of simple DC motors; particle accelerators) 7 8 How are fields used to move electrical energy? Generation of electricity (magnetic flux; generation of emf; production of DC voltage in DC generators and AC voltage in alternators) Experiment: electromagnetic induction Demonstrations: electromagnetic induction 9 10 Transmission of electricity (production of sinusoidal AC voltages; comparison of alternating voltage and constant DC voltage; conversion between values of voltage and current; transformers; power supply; use of AC power for Investigation: deconstruction of an old computer transformer Demonstration: transmission lines Problem-solving: design a solution that harnesses the electric field of an 11
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