This page lists what we actually have for Edexcel GCSE Physics 1PH0. It is built from the live activities, so it is accurate on the day you read it.
Revising by paper, because that is how this course is built
Edexcel does not group Physics into a handful of large content areas. It splits fifteen topics across two papers, and a teacher three weeks out from a Paper 1 mock has a much more specific question than "what physics shall we revise".
Six topics sit on Paper 1: motion and forces, conservation of energy, waves, light and the electromagnetic spectrum, radioactivity, and astronomy. Eight sit on Paper 2: energy and forces doing work, forces and their effects, electricity and circuits, static electricity, magnetism and the motor effect, electromagnetic induction, the particle model, and forces and matter. Key concepts of physics is examined across both.
Our coverage runs seventeen activities on Paper 1 content and thirteen on Paper 2, with one on the shared key concepts.
The four topics that serve two classes at once
If you teach separate Physics and Combined Science in the same week, four topics here are worth knowing by name: key concepts of physics, conservation of energy, energy and forces doing work, and electricity and circuits. Each is identical across the two awards with no Physics-only content in it at all.
That means an activity on one of those topics can go to both classes without a caveat, which is the only place on this site where that is true. Everywhere else the separate award goes further, and setting separate content to a combined group wastes their time.
The two topics that exist only here
Astronomy, on Paper 1, and static electricity, on Paper 2, are entirely absent from Combined Science.
Both have a property worth using: all of their content is examined at Foundation and Higher alike, neither contains Higher-only material, and neither carries a core practical. There is no tier decision to make and no practical to work around, which makes them unusually straightforward to set as independent revision for any student in the class.
Astronomy is also one of the two best covered topics here, with four activities.
Where it is thin
Several topics currently have a single activity: electricity and circuits, electromagnetic induction, static electricity, conservation of energy, and energy and forces doing work. Light and the electromagnetic spectrum and astronomy have four each.
If you are revising Paper 2 in specification order, the first half will feel better supplied than the second.
Finding the right one
The lists below group by classroom use rather than by paper, worked out from what each activity contains. Homework is not a heading, because nearly all of them suit it.
The three activities embedded below are playable here without an account.
Using them
For a short repeated cycle with a recheck built in, revision intervention a department can sustain has the shape. For the practical side of running short recall sessions, and the seven ways they stop working, see running retrieval practice in a GCSE lesson. To put several in front of one class in order, build a sprint.
Our past paper archive carries Edexcel's own Physics papers and mark schemes, free and unaltered.
What this page does not do
It does not cover the core practicals as a set.
It does not decide the tier for you, except in astronomy and static electricity where the specification makes that decision unnecessary.
It does not track anything, so there is no completion list to check.