Spartans battle tactics and weapons.
Macedonian battle tactics and weapons.
Battle at Thermopylae, Salamis and Marathon.
Greek Fire
Alloys
Metals
Archimedes

Lesson 1 - Start by screening the first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan.
Discuss the horrors of war
Lesson 2 - Discuss the Battle tactics of the Macedonians, Spartans in their fight against overwhelming Persian forces.
Discuss the Battle of Salamis and refer to the design of the triremes.
Outline the properties of alloys such as bronze that made them useful to ancient civilisations. Discuss the atomic structure of metals and relate their properties to this structure.
Lesson 3 - Making an alloy.
Lesson 4 - Research some of the inventions of Archimedes and test the myth of Syracuse. Students must produce a report in the appropriate format

Lesson 5 - Introduce the periodic table and discuss how the element are arranged in order of electronic arrangement. Discuss trends such as:
- reactivity of metals increases as we go down group one and two;
- mass of atoms increases down a group;
- group eight elements are very stable;
- group 7 elements are very reactive but their reactivity decreases as we go down the group;
- melting points tend to increase for all elements in group 7 as we go down a group;
Discuss how the periodic table was used to conduct deadly gas warfare and produce durable metals that withstood the high temperatures of huge cannons.

Video - Saving Private Ryan

Video - Spartans

Making an alloy.

Quenching activity

Medicine

Plastic surgery.

Skin

Biological warfare

Lesson 1- Discuss the mode of infection of microbes such as a virus and bacterium. Discuss the spread of diseases during major conflicts. Outline the importance of hygiene to the prevention of diseases with reference to Lister, Florey, Prepare as many agar plates as required and encourage students to investigate cleanliness of every day items such as, hand rails, toilet seats, people's hands, diswashing cloth at home. An investigation can be conducted to see if washing clothing decreases the amount or type of micro-organisms found on the clothes.
Lesson 2 - Discuss the ABO blood group and its importance to the success of blood transfusions. Outline the clotting mechanism. Look at some advances in the treatment of wounds.
Lesson 3 - Outline the need for plastic surgery and the damage to the skin as a result of burns. Discuss the structure of the skin.
Lesson 4 - Discuss biological warfare and the agents used such as bubonic plague, anthrax.
Lesson 5 - Discuss Ypres as the start of modern day use of chemical warfare. Continue with a look at how modern day nerve agents work. Discuss the use of herbicides during the Vietnam war.

Napalm

Greek Fire

Alchemists

Haber process

Fritz Haber

Exothermic reactions for food and explosives.

Periodic table

Chemical warfare

Lesson 1 - Discuss the necessary properties of an explosive chemical reaction. Introduce the energy profile of an exothermic reaction and why nitrogen is an important ingredient of explosive mixtures. Outline the difference between explosive mixtures and slow burning reactions such as that involved with napalm. Conduct a number of exothermic demonstrations outdoors, especially the energy in sugar and the thermite reaction
Lesson 2 - Discuss how alchemists stumbled upon the explosive nature of nitrates and isolated phosphorus. Discuss some of the uses of exothermic reactions for military purposes as in their use as explosives and to heat food for soldiers in the field.
Lesson 3 - Outline the work of Fritz Haber in the development of the Haber process and his involvement at Ypres. Discuss how the Haber process assisted Germany's war efforts.
Lesson 4 - Discuss the periodic table as a way to catalogue the known elements into meaningful groups. Discuss how the periodic table was used during WW2 to invent new weapons and materials..
Lesson 5- Discuss elements, compounds and mixtures in relation to gunpowder, guncotton and hydrogen gas.

Demonstration of exothermic reactions.
-Sulfur and zinc
-Sugar with potassium chlorate.
Click to see the sugar potassium chlorate reaction outdoor demo.

-Thermite

-Guncotton

-Produce your own self warming food can.

Heat from chemical reactions

Trafalgar

Newton's Third Law of Motion

Conservation of momentum

Demonstrations of momentum.

Projectile motion excel s/s.

Hot Air Balloons

Dirigibles

Wright Brothers

Goddard

Lesson 1 - Discuss the way hot air balloons work and their use in military conflict. Discuss why dirigibles were never successful in battle.
Lesson 2 - Discuss the contribution of Goddard to modern day rocketry. Discuss the development of the V1 and V2 rockets and their impact on WW2. Discuss how all rockets obey Newton's Third Law Of Motion and explain the action reaction forces.
Lesson 3 - Outline the law of Conservation of Energy. Discuss the transformation of energy that occurs during a model rocket launch.
Lesson 4 - Outline how drag, thrust and gravity change during a model rocket launch.
Lesson 5-6 Construct and launch a model rocket.
Lesson 7-8 Construct and test fly a model glider. Outline the principles of flight with respect to Bernoulli's Law. Discuss how the wing works to create lift
Lesson 9 Discuss the evolution of the fighter plane from the Wright brothers to the jet engine used by the Germans during WW2 . Discuss the impact of this technology on the outcome of the war.

Make a hot air balloon

Make model rocket

Make a boost glider.

Make gliders

Test fly the gliders

Submarine

Buoyancy

U-boats

Construct a density toy.

Determine the buoyant force acting on an object.

Construct a cartesian diver

Battle of Britain

Radar

Wave frequency

Nuclear weapons

Nuclear energy

Nuclear power

Manhattan project

Tsar Bomba

Atomic bomb assignment

Lesson 1 - Revisit the structure of the atom. Define the nuclear fission and fusion reactions. Describe the significance of E=mc² to the release of atomic energy. Answer given questions.
Lesson 2 - Discuss the significance of the Manhattan project to the outcome of WW2. Discuss how this project was initiated and define radioactivity.
Lesson 3- Describe how a nuclear bomb works. Define the term critical mass. Outline how nuclear energy can be harnessed in a nuclear reactor. Discuss some of the dangers of using nuclear energy, such as Chernobyl and K19. Discuss why a nuclear reactor can not explode like a nuclear bomb.

Research assignment:
- The role of technology in the colonisation of countries.
- Should the atomic bomb have been dropped on Japan?
- Should America have employed Japanese and German scientists, involved in atrocities, to work for the military?
- Modern day torpedo
- Modern day missiles

Any other topic may be considered. Check with your teacher.

The History of Flight

Weather weapons

Tsunami

Lesson 1 - Discuss the evolution of flight and the development of technology such as the V2, V1 jet engine a nd rocket plane by Nazi scientists during WWII. Discuss the impact of this technology on the war.

Lesson 2- Using Bernoulli's Law explain how flight is possible with curved wings.

Lesson 3- Describe how a propeller plane generates thrust. Compare it to the jet and rocket plane. Introduce Newton's Third Law into the discussion

Lesson 4-5 - Discuss weather and natural phenomenon as weapons.