3-ELE-11
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Starter
Main Body of Lesson
- Go through "what makes a good graph" inluding how to find gradient, scales, labels etc.
- Pupils to use their data from the previous lesson and plot the following graphs:
1. average resistance against length
2. average resistance against area
3. average resistance against 1/area
- Ask pupils why the curved graph is less useful
- Discuss the concept of variables being directly proportional
- Pupils to take some data from their graph to e.g. to predict the resistance for a given length
