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Creative Commons physics teaching ideas, resources
and schemes of work created by Simon Poliakoff
Creative Commons physics teaching ideas, resources
and schemes of work created by Simon Poliakoff
Coming June 2026: Ideas for teaching Atomic, Nuclear, Particle and Quantum
New: Low-cost physics teaching ideas for Science on Stage 2026
Ideas for Teaching Electricity, Electric Fields and Capacitors
Infrared camera physics teaching ideas
Ideas for Teaching Forces and Motion
Ideas for teaching magnetism and electromagnetism
Key Stage 3 - Light Scheme of Work and Resources
GCSE - Light Scheme of Work and Resources
Other useful websites of resources (including animations, simulations and ideas)
Please follow the links above to access free Creative Commons physics teaching resources and ideas or click here to find out more about me. I hope that this will be useful for non-specialists or trainees teaching the topics for the first time as well as for established physics teachers who are on the hunt for new ideas, links to good simulations and other resources. These are moslty as google slides with one idea per slide orgnaised by topic to make it easy to find new ideas for the topic you are about to teach. I am pleased that my website has recently featured in the AAPT Physics Teacher Magazine, the Institute of Physics Classroom Physics Newsletter and is listed in the ASE Secondary Science Links Directory
I have highlighted hazards that are clear to me in red but teachers should complete their own risk assessment before using anything with students. I am providing everything on a creative commons non commercial license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). I have tried to credit the original source of the ideas although this is not always easy to find out. If you find anything useful or want to contact me then please fill in the google form linked here and embedded at the bottom of the page. Alternatively you can find me on LinkedIn.