When I preparing exercises, I try to find the way that students lead to discovering the laws of physics through their studies. The first topic where I tried these kinds of tasks was the theme of Class 8, “Motion” I split all themes into critical skills and concepts. The selected skills are divided into 3 levels:
Primary level - needs to be known and skilled by everyone
User Level - using ideas in standard tasks
Expert level - use of concepts and skills in non-standard situations
Five consecutive tasks were prepared for each level, and all pupils started at Level 1. For example, in the first exercise, all pupils should read the descriptive tasks of the movement and draw up the path they have taken to collect the drawings and be able to figure out both the concepts of the path, trajectory, and displacement. Each next step is partly related to the previous one. It slowly builds understanding from bases to active use. The working pages prepared for the topic are available on my Teacher Pay Teacher profile here.
Depending on the pace of work, pupils perform at least user-level tasks during four sessions. In the third lesson, we gather the knowledge and prepare for the test work with the pupils.
In their tasks, students acquire knowledge through practical activity and research. What does the teacher do? The primary responsibility of the teacher is to control that all pupils deal with these tasks correctly. Only then does the pupil get a new excercise.
In my school, classes are divided by levels of success, so I could quickly assess how this method works for different children. On the reactions of pupils after the first hour when I introduced this method can be read in the article "Can't you please do the same as the other teachers?"
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