This lesson is 3 in a series of 5 that expertly and fully delivers all the points within the NEW KS3 specification SoW on the “light” topic. I find that this powerpoint and its interesting activities keep lower level students engaged during the lesson while allowing differentiation for higher achievers. I’m sure you’ll find it useful. For more lessons designed to meet the new KS3 and KS4 specifications please type Barclayfox into the tes resources search engine to see all my lessons. STARTER Pupils will start the lessons by thinking/working in pairs to solve a picture puzzle to find out what today’s lesson is about. After revealing the title and lesson outcomes students self assess against their current understanding of this topic. Next there is a scientific literacy Q&A activity to ensure all students learn the key words required to understand this lesson. MAIN The slides then move on to lead the students into understanding refraction. TTN is introduced as a means of working out whether refraction with bend light towards or away from the normal. Students then undertake an activity and apply TTN to predict the way the light bends at various boundaries between various mediums, they then self-assess using the answers provided. MAIN Next, the lesson focuses on two types of lenses, concave and convex. Diagrams are clear and help get the key points across succinctly and accurately. Students are shown incident rays into a concave lens and then try to predict and draw the ray diagram for the refracted rays. MAIN Students do a class practical with ray boxes and glass blocks to investigate refraction. Students share their results and observations and then undertake a quiz to bring out the key points from the experiment. MAIN Students do a gap fill activity – this can be differentiated by providing or not providing the missing words, they then and self-assess or peer assess using the answers provided. MAIN Refractive index is introduced and students undertake some calculations based around refractive index. This is peer-assessed using the model answers provided. PLENARY Each student self-assesses versus each of the objectives and marks their progress on their progress bars. EXTENSION ACTIVITIES A variety of activities are provided just in case any of your groups requires them either this year or in future years. All resources are included in this great lesson, there is nothing for you to do but order the equipment for the class practical (simply hand your technician the printed off kit list.doc). Thank you for looking, your feedback is much appreciated! :) Lesson 3 in a series of 5. Happy teaching, Barclayfox.

A complete, and ready to deliver, KS4 lesson For USA - this lesson is for use during 8th to 10th grade. This is a complete and ready to use lesson from start to end. You do not need to spend a huge number of hours carefully planning it and writing DIFFERENTIATED resources, I have already spent many hours creating this great lesson. Furthermore it has been improved time and again after each use – it is a tried and tested lesson of very high quality. STUDENTS WILL LEARN TO: * Understand how the extension of a spring changes as you change the force applied. * Understand what is meant by elastic limit * Explain Hooke’s law. * Successfully calculate force, extension and the spring constant. * Calculate spring constant for springs in series and in parallel. ACTIVITIES IN THIS LESSON INCLUDE: * Starter - simple task where students self-assess against the objectives. * Differentiated (and unique) Activity Sheets - with answers. * Gap fill activity - all answers are provided. * Questions – all answers are provided. * Differentiated questions – all answers are provided. * Peer marking * Theory slides (carefully sculpted, interspaced with learning activities, not ‘death by powerpoint’). * Play ball. * Video clip link (carefully selected – this alone can save you 10+ minutes of searching). * Paired work activities – all answers are provided. * Homework * Scientific Literacy * Numeracy activities. * Plenary formative/summative via worksheet. * Student self-assessment versus objectives activity – so learners can judge for themselves how much they have learnt. * Extension activities – just in case additional activities are required. * Over 35 slides long. * Includes notes to help the teacher. Happy teaching! Barclayfox.

KS3 Energy and conservation of energy - complete lesson, ready to use, pick up and go. This KS3 lesson teaches energy stores in the new way required for GCSE 9-1 spec - so it builds the correct foundation for KS4. This supports good student progress and avoids confusing them by teaching them the old ideas about energy at KS3 (e.g. light is an energy store, sound is energy etc) and then the new ones at GCSE (9-1 specification). By the end of the lesson learners will (ALL) Understand what energy is. (ALL) Know the unit of energy. (ALL) Be able to name the 8 energy stores (as per new 9-1 GCSE requirements) (MOST) Understand what each store is and identify them in the world around them. (MOST) Explain that energy transfers from one store to another (SOME) Demonstrate an understanding of the law of conservation of energy. What do you get? Complete and ready to use lesson that includes: Energy cross word worksheet - with ANSWERS. Energy circus activity sheet - with ANSWERS. Two carefully chosen videos Powerpoint that navigates you and the learners throughout and includes questions, answers, peer marking, self marking, video links, plenary quiz with answers etc. Helpsheet Equipment list for the circus practical (simply give it to your technicians) Why buy this? Very high quality (over 15 hours to create). Optimised - low teacher effort for great student results. Tried and tested (taught to my classes in 2017 and again in 2018). Differentiated. Complete and ready to deliver. Easy to use Simple and clear. Engaging and varied. Unique. Correct to the new 9-1 GCSE spec. Beware! Most KS3 lessons on tes are not correct, they are contradicting the new 9-1 GCSE spec. Get a free lesson! Purchase this resource, leave a fair review and choose another Barclayfox resource (to the same value as this one) for free! Instruction about how to claim are included as part of the download. Happy teaching! Barclayfox. There are lots more great time saving lessons in my tes shop: barclayfox shop Search words: KS3 energy, energy stores, new specification, new spec., new science spec, new science specification, new physics spec, 9-1, 9 – 1, GCSE, AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC, IOP, energy, energy stores, energy types, not energy resources, joules, Joules, conservation of energy.

This allows for students to better understand the Radiation topic with a simple activity Card sort activity comes complete with answers so can be used on mulit level learning. Great activity to engage and support active independent learning. This is the worksheet that comes as part of my alpha, beta, gamma radiation lesson which you can find here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/alpha-beta-and-gamma-ionising-radiation-nuclear-radiation-and-ions-complete-lesson-11262725 Happy teaching! Barclayfox

Dangers of radiation. A complete and ready to deliver high quality GCSE lesson from Barclayfox. There is nothing to do ! Even if you do not have time to look at it in advance it is not a problem as the PPT will lead you smoothly through the lesson. Lesson objectives: Understand the dangers of “ionising” radiation and the damage they can cause (ManKinD). Know how to safely handle radioactive sources and protect yourself (TarDiS) Understand contamination and irradiation. Explain how ideas about the world can change. Please note: This lesson does not cover “uses” as they are covered in the Barclayfox lesson 8 of this topic. This lesson is called “Nuclear radiation uses in medicine”. My lessons cover the whole of this “atomic structure” topic but do not blindly follow the textbook order instead they use a structure that has proved highly successful over many years. Uses in medicine lesson is here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/nuclear-radiation-uses-in-medicine-sterilisation-diagnosis-treatment-tracers-radiotherapy-etc-11703961 This carefully crafted lesson is over 30 slides long, and is full of learning activities some are noted below: * ALL answers are provided throughout! * Starter - recaps previous lessons (with answers). * Paired work activities. * Scientific literacy activity. * Homeworks - 2 - you choose. * Questions. * Theory slides (carefully sculpted, interspaced with learning activities, not ‘death by powerpoint’). * Video clip link (carefully selected – this alone can save you a lot of searching). * Gap fill activity. * Unscramble the words race. * Plenary quiz. * Student self-assessment versus objectives activity. As teachers we all work ridiculously long hours each week. Give yourself a break, spend some life with your loved ones, press buy now! If you like this lesson please leave a review. This lesson is part of a Bundle/series, and you may wish to buy others from the series: 0. Bundle – contains all lessons (if available not all series are bundled) 1. History of the atom and the discovery of the nucleus. 2. Isotopes and Mass number and Atomic number. 3. Alpha, Beta and Gamma – ionising radiation. 4. Changes in the nucleus – decay equations 5. Half life, radioactivity and decay 6. Activity practicals 7. Radiation dangers, safety, risk and precautions 8. Nuclear radiation in medicine (uses in medicine) 9. Nuclear fission and chain reactions (nuclear power). 10. Electricity from nuclear power. 11. Nuclear Fusion and our sun. 12. Nuclear issues including waste 13. Hypotheses, theory acceptance and peer review. 14. Revision. Bundle gives you a near 50% discount! Here’s the link https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-gcse-new-spec-atomic-structure-mega-pack-bundle-11795491 Thank you, and happy teaching! Happy days ! Barclayfox.

UPDATED AND IMPROVED. Have lots of fun this Christmas with these fun, entertaining and engaging Christmas quizzes and activities. Based on xmas throughout and split into 4 interesting and fun rounds as noted below. Great fun ! Ready to use – nothing to do. Students lead (if you want them to) so you can focus on whatever or whoever needs your attention, or even, whisper this :-) , RELAX for a change !  Christmas Physics AND * Christmas Thinking AND * Christmas Observation AND * Bonus Round. Contains over 80 pages of fun: Christmas quiz questions. Up and about game – Christmas Physics. Christmas thinking skills. Christmas observation skills. Christmas cracker jokes. Huge numbers of high quality Christmas images. Videos (carefully selected). Music (carefully selected). Up and about games. You’re fired. Surprise bonus round ! Can be used for all abilities and age groups from 8 to 18 *** GREAT VALUE AT THIS PRICE! TREAT YOURSELF AND HAVE A BREAK! *** To see all my Christmas resources please type barclayfox Christmas into the tes search engine. Happy Christmas, and most sincere best wishes of the season to you all !!! :-) Happy teaching, Barclayfox. SEARCH WORDS - does this help people who are searching? Christmas Physics, thinking, observation, pop music, Holidays, Santa, fun, Christmas, Christmas quiz, literacy, numeracy, Christmas activities, Christmas assembly, Noel, Navidad, advent, music, nativity, Xmas science, Christmas maths, Christmas English, Christmas Geography, Navidad, Noel, advent, Santa Clause, Reindeer, sleigh, snow, snowman, xmas lights, mince pie, turkey, trimmings, decorations, Queen’s speech, boxing day, cold meat and pickles, Christmas crackers. 

On sale at £1.95 for 1 week only! Hurry! Best seller, great fun Christmas Activities, games and Quizzes. Great value, Over 300 slides, pick and choose from 12 interesting, fun and entertaining Christmas rounds: *Maths *English *Christmas itself *Films & Video *Observation *Physics *Geography *Pop music *Sport/PE *Thinking *Biology *Chemistry *Identify the song * Xmas songs. Lots of Christmas cracker Jokes throughout. Very Christmassy from start to finish ! This is ALL you need for ALL your Christmas lessons from ages 8 to 18, buy and relax ! Lots of xmas quiz questions, activities, high quality Christmas images, videos, music, up and about games etc, 300+ fun power point slides (which took approximately 35+ hours of work to create although this was spread over many years as I have happily and successfully used this every Christmas for many years). Fun, enjoyable, entertaining. All answers are provided and different students take turns to run the show, so you can catch up and relax for a change ! Based around Christmas throughout, fun and engaging, you choose which of the 12 rounds you like the best, or use them all with different classes, or better still, let the kids vote for which of the 12 rounds they would like to do!  Great fun for you, great fun for your classes ! Can be used with all abilities and all age groups from 8 to 18 ! Happy Christmas, and most sincere best wishes of the season to you all !!! :-) Happy teaching, Barclayfox. . . . SEARCH WORDS – does this help people who are searching? Holidays, Santa, fun, Christmas assembly, Christmas, Christmas quiz, christmas quizzes, Christmas activities, Noel, advent, Xmas, xmas, Navidad, nativity, Santa Clause, Reindeer, sleigh, snow, snowman, xmas science, Christmas maths, Christmas English, Christmas Geography, Santa clause, Reindeer, Sleigh, snow, snowman, mince pie, turkey, trimmings, Christmas lights, decorations, White Christmas, King’s speech, boxing day, cold meat and pickles, Christmas crackers, Christmas jokes.

On sale at this price for only 1 week, hurry!* Great fun quiz / lesson, complete and ready to use - WITHOUT MENTIONING CHRISTMAS ! Can be used at end of any term or end of year - it is a fantastic fun quiz. Excellent enjoyable lesson were students still learn - so that keeps both SLT and the students happy !! There is nothing for you to do, no need to spend hours carefully planning and resourcing this happy lesson as I’ve spent 12+ hours creating and then updating this for you and my students. Your students will love the following activities: Round 1: Observation - watch a Disney Pixar film trailer and see how much they observed. Round 2: Music - have fun identifying artists and albums and songs. Round 3: Bingo - a great game covering Maths, English, Science, Geography, and History, very enjoyable. Round 4: A to Z alphabet knowledge - covering Maths, English, Science, Geography, and History. 26 questions, use as many as you wish. *** NOTE - THIS IS A DECEMBER FUN RESOURCE THAT DOES NOT TALK ABOUT CHRISTMAS *** All answers are provided and students can peer or self mark. There are over 70 pages/slides - more than enough to keep your students happy for at least 1 full fun lesson! Happy teaching! Barclayfox.

This is a highly entertaining Christmas lesson full of fun activities. Complete and ready to use. It also includes a fully explained activity where students build and fire simple catapults made from lolly (popsicle) sticks. This is done in the classroom (no need to go outside). You do not need to know how to build the catapult, the lesson carefully guides students so they can do it without help ! They will absolutely love this activity and the story it is part of… great fun ! The story: A story about an invasion of zombie Santas is told. Christmas is in jeopardy! The learners have to try to save Christmas by defeating the zombie horde and finding a cure to turn the zombies back into humans. All instructions are included and the lesson teaches the learners almost automatically, any of us can give this fun and imaginative lesson. How can we stop the zombie horde? How do we cure the zombies turning them back into people? Can your class save Christmas? Flexible length: The length of the lesson is very flexible depending on your needs. There are activities you can miss out and there is also a Christmas cracker based extension you can add in. So, the lesson can easily last anywhere between 0.5 hours and 1.5 hours depending on your requirements. Subject and age groups: This lesson gets the learners out of their seats, keeps them happy, focused and engaged as they work in teams building and creating. There’s nothing like zombies to capture the imagination of students! It’s a great lesson that teachers of any subject can use with all ages from 6 to 16 and it won’t go out of date (like a quiz might) so you can use it for years to come, which makes it excellent value at this price ! Learning and skills: As well as being great fun and entertaining it is also educational and includes: literacy, numeracy, SMSC, team working skills, questions with answers, physical coordination skills, activities with answers, play ball game, joke telling etc High quality, ready to use lesson - great for teachers of all subjects! Happy teaching ! Barclayfox. Key words: Christmas English, Christmas Geography, Christmas Geog, Christmas History, Christmas French, Christmas activities, Christmas activity, Xmas, saving Christmas, Christmas literacy, quiz, quizzes, Xmas, practical, team work, fun, entertaining, engaging, SMSC, literacy, happy kids, fun learning, catapult, elf, elves, sleigh, reindeer, Christmas maths, Christmas English, Christmas English language, Christmas English literacy, Christmas PE, Christmas PSHE, Christmas RE, Christmas French, Christmas German, MFL, Christmas Sociology, Christmas Psychology, Christmas Physics., Christmas Chemistry, Christmas Biology, Christmas Design technology, Christmas product design, EBacc, BTec, Progress 8, Christmas engineering, drama, ICT, media, computer science, art, business.

Plenaries - Super easy fun plenaries. No preparation or planning required. Simply choose one from those described - or let the class choose by projecting the 1 pager. Enough so you can use them with the same classes all year long. Not so many that you or your students get confused or cannot decide which to use. Save time this week – and every week ! Happy teaching! Barclayfox

Great fun Christmas activities, complete and ready to use. Lots of engaging and fun activities and an excellent primary activity of building and firing straw** air powered rockets** in the classroom (no need to go outside). Please don’t stop reading! This is not a lesson only for science teachers - all instructions are in teh PPT and are simple for students to follow…it fantastic fun for all ! A story is woven and as part of the lesson the learners build rockets to save Christmas from Safcut - who is Santa’s evil brother. All instructions are included and the lesson teaches the learners almost automatically, this is NOT a lesson only for our friends the science teachers (although it’s excellent for them too!) - any of us can use this fun and imaginative lesson. Who is Safcut? What’s his plan? Can your class save Christmas? Lesson length: Fantastic fun ! Very flexible length, there are activities you can miss out and on the other hand there is a Christmas cracker based extension. So, the lesson can easily last anywhere between 0.5 hour and 1.5 hours depending on your needs. Better than a quiz: This is definitely not a Christmas quiz, it gets the learners out of their seats, keeps them focused and engaged as they work in teams building and creating. It’s a great lesson you can use with all ages from 6 to 16 and it won’t go out of date so you can use it for years to come, which makes it excellent value at this price ! Skills and learning: As well as being great fun and entertaining it is also educational and it includes: literacy, SMSC, team working skills, cooperation, physical building skills, questions with answers, activities with answers, play ball game, what engineers do, identify parts of a rocket, joke telling etc High quality lesson, great for teachers of any subject !!! Happy Christmas ! Happy teaching ! Barclayfox. . . . . . . Key words: Christmas: activities, Christmas activity, Xmas, saving Christmas, Santa’s evil brother, quiz, Xmas. Practical, team work, fun, entertaining, engaging, SMSC, literacy, happy kids, fun learning, rockets, air power, pressure, balloons, elf, elves, sleigh, reindeer, Christmas maths, Christmas English, Christmas PE, Christmas History, Christmas Geography, Christmas PSHE, Christmas RE, Christmas French, Christmas German, MFL, Christmas Sociology, Christmas Psychology, Christmas Physics, Christmas Chemistry, Christmas Biology, Christmas Design technology, Christmas product design, Christmas engineering, drama, ICT, media, computer science, art, business, EBacc, BTec, Progress 8.

Great fun Christmas activities, complete and ready to use! Lots of engaging, enjoyable and fun activities and a primary activity of building and firing straw air powered rockets in the classroom (no need to go outside). Please don’t stop reading! This is not a lesson only for science teachers… easy and fully scaffolded, you do NOT need any rocket building skills! But you will have fun too! The Story: A story is woven and as part of the lesson the learners build rockets to save Christmas from Safcut - who is Santa’s evil brother. All instructions are included and the lesson teaches the learners almost automatically, this is NOT a lesson only for our friends the science teachers (although it’s excellent for them too!) - any of us can use this fun and imaginative lesson. Who is Safcut? What’s his plan? Can your class save Christmas? Length: The length of the lesson is very flexible, there are activities you can miss out and on the other hand there is a Christmas cracker based extension. So, the lesson can easily last anywhere between 1/2 hour and 1 and a 1/2 hours depending on your needs. Better than a boring quiz: This is definitely not a Christmas quiz, it gets the learners out of their seats, keeps them focused and engaged as they work in teams building and creating. It’s a great lesson you can use with all ages from 6 to 16 and it won’t go out of date so you can use it for years to come, which makes it excellent value at this price ! What do they learn? As well as being great fun and entertaining it is also educational and it includes: literacy, SMSC, team working skills, cooperation, physical building skills, questions with answers, activities with answers, play ball game, what engineers do, identify parts of a rocket, joke telling etc High quality lesson, great for teachers of any subject! Merry Christmas ! Happy teaching ! Barclayfox. Key words: Christmas: activities, Christmas activity, Xmas, saving Christmas, Santa’s evil brother, quiz, Xmas. Practical, team work, fun, entertaining, engaging, SMSC, literacy, happy kids, fun learning, rockets, air power, pressure, balloons, elf, elves, sleigh, reindeer, Christmas maths, Christmas English, Christmas PE, Christmas History, Christmas Geography, Christmas PSHE, Christmas RE, Christmas French, Christmas German, MFL, Christmas Sociology, Christmas Psychology, Christmas Physics, Christmas Chemistry, Christmas Biology, Christmas Design technology, Christmas product design, Christmas engineering, drama, ICT, media, computer science, art, business, EBacc, BTec, Progress 8.

Christmas science quiz - Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Ready to use - no prep required. 5 rounds: Chemistry - game. Pop music - activity. Christmas Physics. Christmas Biology. World Tour. Flexible duration - use the rounds you prefer. Full Powerpoint is over 100 slides . Suitable for year 7 to year 11 inclusive. Best wishes, Barclayfox

Save Christmas! This is a very entertaining, complete and ready to use, Christmas lesson full of fun activities. It also includes a fully scaffolded activity where students build and fire simple catapults made from lolly (popsicle) sticks. This is done in the classroom (no need to go outside). You do NOT need to know how to build the catapult, the lesson carefully guides students so they can have the joy of discovering how to do it with or without your help ! A story about an invasion of zombie Santas is told. Christmas is in jeopardy! The learners have to try to defeat the zombie horde, find a cure for the infected and save Christmas. All instructions are included and the lesson teaches the learners almost automatically, any of us can give this fun and imaginative lesson. How can we stop the zombie horde? How do we cure the zombies turning them back into people? Can your class save Christmas? The length of the lesson is very flexible depending on your needs. There are activities you can miss out and there is also a Christmas cracker based extension you can add in. So, the lesson can easily last anywhere between 0.5 hours and 1.5 hours depending on your requirements. This lesson gets the learners out of their seats, keeps them happy, focused and engaged as they work in teams building and creating. There’s nothing like zombies to capture the imagination of students! It's a great lesson that teachers of any subject can use with all ages from 6 to 16 and it won't go out of date (like a quiz might) so you can use it for years to come, which makes it excellent value at this price ! As well as being great fun and entertaining it is also educational and includes: literacy, numeracy, SMSC, team working skills, questions with answers, physical coordination skills, activities with answers, play ball game, joke telling etc High quality, ready to use lesson - great for teachers of all subjects! Happy teaching ! Barclayfox. Key words: Christmas English, Christmas Geography, Christmas Geog, Christmas History, Christmas French, Christmas activities, Christmas activity, Xmas, saving Christmas, Christmas literacy, quiz, quizzes, Xmas, practical, team work, fun, entertaining, engaging, SMSC, literacy, happy kids, fun learning, catapult, elf, elves, sleigh, reindeer, Christmas maths, Christmas English, Christmas English language, Christmas English literacy, Christmas PE, Christmas PSHE, Christmas RE, Christmas French, Christmas German, MFL, Christmas Sociology, Christmas Psychology, Christmas Physics, Christmas Chemistry, Christmas Biology, Mathematics, Christmas Design technology, Christmas product design, EBacc, BTec, Progress 8, Christmas engineering, drama, ICT, media, computer science, art, business, Spanish, navidad, advent, holiday, holidays, Fun