The Physics Teaching Podcast

The Last Podcast

In the penultimate podcast, Rosie and Thomas have a jolly catch-up about supporting physics students with extra-curricular projects and ways to teach the Particle Theory of matter; all with a big dose of space stories along the way.

Join Thomas, Robin, and Rosie as they share their arsenal of revision techniques for key stage three.

Join Robin, Rosie and friend-of-the-Podcast, and hugely successful author, Ben Rogers for a delectable selection of ways to teach electricity spanning from primary school year 4 all the way through to some fun ideas for year 12 A-level classes.

Rosie and Robin finally get a chance to catch up, whilst Thomas jets off on holiday, but not before catching up with Richard Brock to discuss the art of storytelling in the classroom

The Magic of Physics

We chat with Callum Farnsworth about his exciting project as an Ogden Senior Teaching Fellow developing resources for use alongside much loved by physics teacher's PHET tools. Callum's website is called 'PHET Effect'. It's January and hence what better time to also talk about some teaching New Year Resolutions too! Thomas and Callum come up with some super ideas to help students on how to tackle e...

Ogden Fellows and Seasonal Practicals

Easy and Fun Physics for Science Week

We catch up with teacher and author Dr Ben Still to get tips on how to address Particles at A-Level.

Inspiration with Sir Peter Ogden

Primary Physics with Ben Rogers - Space

Ramps and Trolleys

Thomas tells Rosie about some exciting new episodes coming in September.

Dr David Boyce returns to share his solution to a dilemma: how do you bring your classroom up to date digitally, but avoid all your students disappearing down the internet rabbit hole.

Breakthrough Technologies in Physics Teaching: Exploring AI with Dr. David Boyce

Polymath Dr David Boyce joins Thomas and Robin to discuss the first of three potentially transformative developments in physics education... can 3d printing help you teach physics?

Thomas talks to Rosie McTavish about CanSat: a competition that puts the 'super' in super-curricular. What a way to get students engaged.

We talk with Jackie Flaherty about how the Ogden SKPT programme approaches Atomic Physics.

If you are one of the heroes who wouldn't call themself a physics teacher... but teach physics anyway, meet the Ogden Trust: their SKPT programme is designed to give you the professional recognition for your physics teaching!

GCSE Astronomy can be a great way to get enthusiasts hooked and can be more accessible than you think. William H joins us to make the case for a partnership approach to astronomy.

When it comes to emotive topics in physics teaching, radioactivity is up there. We have experienced colleagues who would refuse to work with school radioactive sources, even though there you generally encounter more risk while boiling a kettle. But you need to register, store and handle them properly or you could land your school with a fine.

The US government wants to hear about physics teaching. So much so that they fund a Fellowship that takes a teacher to Washington DC so that they can inform education policy. Thomas meets with Michael Stewart, the Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow 2023-24.

Everyone has been talking about it for a year or more so high time your finger-on-the-pulse physics teaching nuggets got to grips with ChatGPT (other AIs are available).

Keeping hold of good science teachers involves a culture that respects their professionalism and Doug Simon of Heathland School in Hounslow joins Thomas and Robin to share how his school maintains a culture conducive to science teaching.