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Salters Horners Advanced Physics

Background
The Salters Horners Advanced Physics (SHAP) course development began in January 1996. For the first time, another Livery Company, the Horners' Company, joined Salters in sponsoring a curriculum development project. By June 2011, over 40,000 students had completed the SHAP AS year and about 23,000 had completed the full SHAP A-level course.
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Salters Horners Advanced Physics

Salters Horners Advanced Physics is a context-led course placing students' learning in the environment and in situations in which physics is met in real life. In total there are eleven context areas through which the physics is developed (six Advanced Subsidiary AS and five Advanced A/A2). The study of them all is compulsory. The examinations, and indeed the course materials, point to other places in which the same physics is used. A brief overview of the scheme is provided below.

SHAP Course Overview

Chapter	Outline
Higher, Faster, Stronger	A variety of sporting contexts introduce and develop work on kinematics, Newtonian mechanics, force and energy.
Good Enough to Eat	Issues in the food industry lead to a study of properties of solids and liquids
Spare Part Surgery	Further work on solids involves materials for replacement bones and joints.
The Sound of Music	Musical instruments and CD players introduce sound waves, wave phenomena, and properties of light.
Technology in Space	Spacecraft power supplies are the context for DC circuit work and the photoelectric effect. Remote sensing leads to further work on waves.
Digging Up the Past	Archaeological surveying involves further work on electrical properties. Close examination of artefacts entails further work on electromagnetic radiation and waves.
Transport on Track	Issues in designing and operating a modern rail transport system lead to further work on mechanics, an exploration of electromagnetic forces and induction, and an introduction to capacitors.
The Medium is the Message	Sensing, storing, sending, receiving and displaying information involves further work on capacitors, an introduction to electric fields, and further work on current and charge in magnetic fields.
Probing the Heart of the Matter	Particle physics research sets the scene for further work on electic and magnetic fields, and circular motion, along with atomic structure and the standard model for subatomic particles.
Build or Bust?	Earthquakes and their effect on buildings set the scene for further work on waves, and an exploration of simple harmonic motion and resonance. Temperature control in buildings involves thermal properties of materials and energy transfer processes.
Reach for the Stars	An exploration of star properties, formation and evolution includes distance measurement, black body radiation, nuclear processes, gravitation, and molecular kinetic theory of gases. A study of cosmology brings in further work on electromagnetic radiation.

Many activities have been produced to accompany the course. These include many innovative laboratory practical activities, the use of information technology, interaction with internet, data analysis, having discussions, making presentations, and writing reports and articles for differing audiences. There is no shortage of variety.

For each year of the course, there is a full-colour student book accompanied by a comprehensive Teacher and Technician Resource Pack (TTRP) and ActiveTeach CD-ROM.

New editions of SHAP resources were published by Pearson Edexcel in 2008 and 2009.

To learn more about the resources, visit the Pearson website http://www.pearsonschoolsandfecolleges.co.uk/SHAP or ring customer services: 0800 579579.

Assessment for students following SHAP is provided by Edexcel. Since 2008, Edexcel has operated a single asessment scheme for SHAP students and for students following other routes to AS and A-level physics. For full details of the Edexcel specification and assessment scheme, and support and training available from Edexcel, visit the Edexcel website: http://www.edexcel.com/quals/gce/gce08/physics/pages/default.aspx

More information
Please contact:
Project Administrator
The Salters Horners Advanced Physics Project
Science Education
Alcuin D Block,
The University of York
Heslington

York, YO10 5DD
Tel: 01904 322601 Fax: 01904 322605
E-mail: joanna.macdonald@york.ac.uk

Please click here to visit the Salters Horners Advanced Physics website .

Each year the Salters' Institute offers a number of grants to schools to purchase course books.

Each year the Salters' Institute awards monetary prizes to the candidates who have achieved the highest grades in the A Level examinations.

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