A complete and ready to deliver KS3 lesson on - acids, alkalis and hazard symbols. Students learn / lesson objectives: * What acids and alkalis are * To describe differences between concentrated and dilute solutions of acids. * How to stay safe when using acids * The names and formulae of common acids * To recognise hazard symbols. Activities this lesson contains: Picture puzzle Search for the acid Several gap fills Teacher demo Up and about Think/pair/share Questions etc This lesson is part of a series, and you may wish to buy others from the series: 0. Bundle – contains all four lessons. 1. Acids & alkalis (this lesson - please purchase to find out how to get the others) 2. Indicators 3. Neutralisation 4. Predicting the salt. Thank you for your time. Yours, Barclayfox.

A complete and ready to deliver lesson GCSE/KS4 lesson on survival and classification. This is a complete lesson from start to end, you do NOT need to spend hours carefully planning and resourcing this lesson – I have done this for you. :-) There is nothing to do but give it a quick look through and familiarise yourself with it. Lesson objectives / students learn: * about factors that affect survival in some organisms * how organisms are grouped (classified) into 5 kingdoms * to describe some subgroups of the animal kingdom. * to explain the main characteristics of the 5 kingdoms. * key scientific terminology. Student activities included in the lesson: - differentiated worksheet - card sort (grouping/classifying) - gap fill - matching - think, pair, share activities - questions to answer - quiz - video link All answers are provided to make the lesson easy to use (as are notes to help the teacher). As teachers we all work ridiculously long hours each week. Give yourself a break, spend some life with your wife / husband / children / friends / family by purchasing more lessons created by ‘Barclayfox’ on TES. Please note: when searching for resources please type barclayfox into the search box/engine and it will show you all my resources. I hope you will purchase this excellent lesson and please leave positive feedback. Thank you for your time. Yours, Barclayfox.

A complete ’ AS / A level Physics lesson on “Physical quantities and units”. Lesson objectives: * Explain that some physical quantities consist of a numerical magnitude and a unit. * Correctly use important units. * Derive units e.g. units of Force, Energy etc Activities this lesson contains: Notes to help the teacher. Starter task - picture puzzle. Literacy / SPaG Questions (with answers) Boggle game Gap fill Quiz questions with answers. Etc All answers are provided to make things easy for you. As science teachers we all work ridiculously long hours each week. Give yourself a break, spend some life with your wife / husband / children / friends / family by purchasing more lessons created by ‘Barclayfox’ once they appear on TES. Please note: when searching for resources please type barclayfox into the search box/engine and it will show you all my resources. I hope you will purchase this excellent lesson and please leave positive feedback. This lesson is part of a series, and you may wish to buy others from the series: 1. Physical quantities and units. 2. Prefixes and making estimates. 3. Scalar and vector quantities, resultants and resolving. 4. More on vectors – resultants and resolving. 5. Definitions in kinematics. 6. DT & VT graphs of motion. 7. Constant acceleration (SUVAT) equations. 8. Free fall. 9. Measurement of g. Thank you for your time. Yours, Barclayfox.

A complete KS4 lesson. Fusion, fission, hydrogen, proton, repulsion, repel, nuclei. Lesson objectives: * Explain the difference between nuclear “fusion” and nuclear “fission”. * Explain why nuclear fusion needs high temperatures and pressures. *Explain why mankind is finding it hard to make a practical and profitable fusion power station - a sun here on earth!!! This carefully crafted lesson is over 40 slides long, and is full of learning activities as below: * Notes to help the teacher. * Help sheet (can be given to all, or only to those that the plenary shows found the lesson difficult, or given later to students who missed the lesson). * Starter – unscramble. * Matching task – answers are provided. * Unscramble the words race. * Gap fill activity - all answers are provided. * Quiz with answers. * Questions – all answers are provided. * Up and about activity. * Theory slides (carefully sculpted, interspaced with learning activities, * Video clip link (carefully selected – this alone can save you 20+ minutes of searching). * Play ball. * Paired work activities – answers are provided. * Scientific literacy activity. * Homework, you choose whether your learners need to do it (if a worksheet answers are provided). * Plenary formative/summative assessment quiz / activity. * Student self-assessment versus objectives activity – so learners can judge for themselves how much they have learnt. Please purchase this lesson, and leave a positive review. This lesson is part of a series, whilst they all work very well as stand alone individual lessons you may wish to buy others from the series: 0. Bundle – contains all lessons (if available not all series are bundled) 1. Atoms, radiation 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. Activity and half life 6. to 14 - see list in this powerpoint Thank you, and happy teaching! Yours, 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.

A complete, and ready to deliver, high quality KS4 / GCSE lesson from Barclayfox. This is a complete lesson from start to end, you do not need to spend many hours carefully planning, creating, resourcing and improving this lesson after each use. I have already spent those hours preparing this lesson for my students and improving it over many years. This is an excellent lesson. There is nothing for you to do but give it a quick look through and familiarise yourself with it. LOs: * I understand what conservation of momentum means. * I can describe the difference between an elastic collision and an inelastic collision. * I can carry out calculations for collisions between objects. * I can carry out calculations for explosions. This carefully crafted lesson is over 40 slides long, and is full of learning activities as below: * Notes to help the teacher. * Help sheet (can be given to all, or only to those that the plenary shows found the lesson difficult, or given later to students who missed the lesson). * Starter - short test. * Starter - simple task where students self-assess against the objectives. * Matching task - answers are provided. * Activity sheet - built into the powerpoint simply print this slide for each student. Answers are provided too. * Quiz with answers. * Questions – all answers are provided. * Peer marking AND self marking. * Up and about activity * Theory slides (carefully sculpted, interspaced with learning activities, not ‘death by powerpoint’). * Play ball. * Video clip link (carefully selected – this alone can save you 20+ minutes of searching). * Paired work activities T/P/S – answers are provided. * Scientific literacy activity. * 2 x Demos * Plenary formative/summative assessment quiz / activity. * Student self-assessment versus objectives activity – so learners can judge for themselves how much they have learnt. As teachers we all work ridiculously long hours each week. Spend some life with your wife / husband / children / friends / family by purchasing more lessons created by “Barclayfox” once they appear on TES. Please note: when searching for resources please type barclayfox into the search box/engine and it will show you all our resources. Please purchase this lesson, and leave a positive review. This lesson is part of a series, whilst they all work very well as standalone individual lessons you may wish to buy others from the series: 0. Bundle – contains all lessons (if available, not all my series are bundled) 1. Momentum. 2. Conservation of momentum, collisions, elastic and inelastic. 3. Momentum, impulse, crumple zones and safety. Thank you, and happy teaching! Yours, Barclayfox.

A complete, and ready to deliver, KS4 lesson. (For USA - this lesson is at 8th to 10th grade level). There is nothing for you to do but give it a quick look through and familiarise yourself with it. Lesson outomes: * I can name forces and identify the direction they act in (KS3 revision). * I understand Newton’s 3rd law. * I can analyse situations using N3L This carefully crafted lesson is over 30 slides long, and is full of learning activities as below: * Notes to help the teacher. * Starter - simple task where students self-assess against the objectives. * Activity sheet - unique to Barclayfox. * Activity sheet answers. * Questions – all answers are provided. * Self marking / Peer marking * Theory slides (carefully sculpted, interspaced with learning activities, not ‘death by powerpoint’). * Play ball. * Quiz Quiz Trade game. * Video clip link (carefully selected – this alone can save you 20+ minutes of searching). * Paired work activities – all answers are provided. * Student self-assessment versus objectives activity – so learners can judge for themselves how much they have learnt. Please purchase this lesson, and leave a positive review. This lesson is part of a series, whilst they all work very well as standalone individual lessons you may wish to buy others from the series: 0. Bundles – contain 3 or more of these lessons at a discounted price (however please note not all my series are bundled). 1. Vectors and scalars. 2. Forces between objects (contact / non-contact and Newton’s 3rd law). 3. Forces and Newton’s third law (N3L). 4. Resultant forces, free body diagrams. 5. Forces and acceleration F=Ma 6. Required practical F=Ma 7 to 12 - please see list in this powerpoint Thank you, and happy teaching! Yours, Barclayfox.

A complete, KS4 / GCSE lesson ( * Explain the difference between scalars and vectors. * Name all the important scalars and vectors. * Successfully complete a practical experiment on vectors/scalars. * Successfully calculate speed, velocity, distance and time using the speed equation. This carefully crafted lesson is over 40 slides long, and is full of learning activities as below: * Notes to help the teacher. * Starter - unscramble the words. * Starter - simple task where students self-assess against the objectives. * Activity sheet (unique - not available anywhere else) - simply print for each student. * Practical / student experiment. * Questions (with differentiation) – all answers are provided. * Peer marking * Self marking * Theory slides (carefully sculpted, interspaced with learning activities, not ‘death by powerpoint’). * Play ball. * Paired work activities – all answers are provided. * Homework worksheet (unique) * Scientific Numeracy activities. * Student self-assessment versus objectives activity – so learners can judge for themselves how much they have learnt. As teachers we all work ridiculously long hours each week. Give yourself a break, spend some life with your wife / husband / children / friends / family by purchasing more lessons created by “Barclayfox” once they appear on TES. Please note: when searching for resources please type barclayfox into the search box/engine and it will show you all our resources. Please purchase this lesson, and leave a positive review. This lesson is part of a series, whilst they all work very well as standalone individual lessons you may wish to buy others from the series: 0. Bundles – contain 3 or more of these lessons at a discounted price (however please note not all my series are bundled). 1. Vectors and scalars. 2. Forces between objects (contact / non-contact and Newton’s 3rd law). 3. Forces and Newton’s third law (N3L). 4. Resultant forces, free body diagrams. 5. Forces and acceleration F=Ma 6 to 12 - please see list in this powerpoint Here is the next lesson in the series: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/forces-between-objects-contact-and-non-contact-forces-and-force-fields-complete-lesson-11728381 Happy teaching! Yours, Barclayfox.

This entertaining quiz has 3 rounds all based on Christmas. Student lead so you can take a much needed break ! It is very very flexible and ideal for a 15 to 60 minute tutor time (has extension activities too). The 3 great fun rounds are: 1) Christmas general knowledge 2) Christmas films 3) Christmas songs. Complete and ready to use, with Amusing Christmas cracker jokes used throughout ! It’s a great resource that teachers of any subject can use with all ages from 5 to 19 years old. You could even use it at home with the family at Christmas by showing it on your laptop or projecting it… You can also use it for years to come, which makes it excellent value at this price ! Lots of high quality Christmas images, jokes, video links, questions and songs. A ready to use lesson - great for teachers of all subjects! Happy teaching ! Barclayfox. Key words: Christmas tutor, Christmas pastoral, family, fun, Christmas assembly, 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, Christmas engineering, drama, ICT, media, computer science, art, business.

Energy stores and pathways (new GCSE 9-1). High quality, differentiated and complete lesson. Outcomes as below. Differentiated. Complete and ready to deliver. Easy to use Optimised - low teacher effort for great student results. Simple and clear. Engaging and varied. Unique. Correct to the new 9-1 GCSE spec (Beware! Many lessons on tes are not correct as they are the old specification and this includes some that claim to be 9-1). OUTCOMES I can: ALL: Understand and recall the 8 energy stores and 4 pathways. ALL: Understand that energy is not created or destroyed, only transferred. MOST: During a practical apply stores and pathways to describe energy transfers. SOME: Create energy transfer diagrams. Please do NOT buy this if you bought my other complete lesson on energy stores and transfers. Your feedback would be appreciated :) Happy teaching! Barclayfox. There are lots more great time saving lessons in my tes shop: Barclayfox’s shop Search words: 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, energy transfers, energy pathways, energy carriers, not energy resources, joules, Joules, conservation of energy.

Isotopes - a complete KS4 / GCSE lesson Lesson objectives: * Understand atomic structure. * Know what isotopes, mass number, and atomic number are. * Describe nuclei of different atoms using mass number and atomic number in the form: X superscript m subscript p. * Use atomic number and mass number to calculate the number of protons, electrons and neutrons in an atom. * Draw the structures of specific atoms. The lesson contains: * Notes to help the teacher. * Help sheet (can be given to all students, or to only those who the plenary shows found the lesson difficult, or to students who missed the lesson). * Homework sheet with answers (you choose whether your learners need to do it). * Starter - picture puzzle. * Simple task where students self-assess themselves against each objective * Big question to get students thinking. * Scientific literacy. * Revision game - played in small teams - all answers are provided. * Questions – all answers are provided. * Gap fill activities - various, with answers. * Theory slides (carefully sculpted and interactive to avoid ‘death by powerpoint’) * Video clip link (carefully selected – saves you time searching the internet). * Plenary assessment quiz. * Student self-assessment versus objectives activity. Waste no more of your precious time searching, buy now! This lesson is part of a series, whilst they all work very well as standalone individual lessons 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. Activity and half life 6 to 14 Please see this power point for the rest of the list. Thank you, and happy teaching! Yours, Barclayfox.

A complete, and ready to deliver, KS4 lesson For USA - this lesson is for use between 8th and 10th grade. There is nothing for you to do but give it a quick look through and familiarise yourself with it. Lesson outcomes, students will be able to: * Draw “free body diagrams”. * Explain Newton’s first law. * Explain Newton’s third law. * Successfully calculate “resultant” forces. This carefully crafted lesson is over 40 slides long, and is full of learning activities as below: * Notes to help the teacher. * Starter - simple task where students self-assess against the objectives. * Activity sheet (unique) - simply print this slide for each student. * Activity sheet - answers. * Gap fill activity - all answers are provided. * Quiz with answers - using mini whiteboards (if available) * Questions – all answers are provided. * Peer or self marking * Theory slides (carefully sculpted, interspaced with learning activities, not ‘death by powerpoint’). * Play ball. * Paired work activities – all answers are provided. * Homework * Scientific Literacy activity. * Scientific Numeracy activity * Student self-assessment versus objectives activity – so learners can judge for themselves how much they have learnt. Please purchase this lesson, and leave a positive review. This lesson is part of a series, whilst they all work very well as standalone individual lessons you may wish to buy others from the series: 0. Bundles – contain 3 or more of these lessons at a discounted price (however please note not all my series are bundled). 1. Vectors and scalars. 2. Forces between objects (contact / non-contact and Newton’s 3rd law). 3. Forces and Newton’s third law (N3L). 4. Resultant forces, free body diagrams - This Lesson. 5. Forces and acceleration F=Ma 6. Required practical F=Ma 7 to 12 - please see list in this powerpoint Thank you, and happy teaching! Yours, Barclayfox.

A complete, and ready to deliver, high quality KS4 / GCSE lesson. (USA grades 9, 10 and 11) There is nothing for you to do but give it a quick look through and familiarise yourself with it. Lesson objectives: * Know the forces that oppose the driving force of a vehicle. * Define thinking distance, braking distance and stopping distance. * Describe factors affecting thinking distance and braking distance. * Understand why doubling speed doubles thinking distance but more than doubles braking distance. * Use the braking distance equation successfully. This carefully crafted lesson is over 40 slides long, and is full of learning activities as below: * Notes to help the teacher. * Starter - recall quiz. * Starter - simple task where students self-assess against the objectives. * Practical experiment. * Peer marking * Self marking * Theory slides (carefully sculpted, interspaced with learning activities, not ‘death by powerpoint’). * Questions – all answers are provided. * Differentiated questions - all answers are provided. * Play ball. * Video clip link (carefully selected – this alone can save you 20+ minutes of searching). * Paired work activities – all answers are provided. * Scientific Literacy activity. * Scientific Numeracy activity * SMSC * Plenary formative/summative assessment questions. * Student self-assessment versus objectives activity – so learners can judge for themselves how much they have learnt. As teachers we all work ridiculously long hours each week. Give yourself a break, spend some life with your wife / husband / children / friends / family by purchasing more lessons created by “Barclayfox” once they appear on TES. Please note: when searching for resources please type barclayfox into the search box/engine and it will show you all our resources. Please purchase this lesson, and leave a positive review. Thank you, and happy teaching! Yours, Barclayfox.

A complete, and ready to deliver, high quality KS3 Biology lesson from Barclayfox. (For USA - this lesson is for use between 5th and 7th grade). This is a complete lesson from start to end, you do not need to spend many hours carefully planning, creating, resourcing and improving this lesson after each use. I have already spent those hours preparing this lesson for my students and improving it over many years. This is a very high quality lesson. There is nothing for you to do but give it a quick look through and familiarise yourself with it. Lesson objectives: * Identify some adaptations for different environments. * Describe some adaptations and how they help animals survive. * Describe how inherited variation is caused. * Successfully complete an experiment investigating adaptation and explain what is happening and why. This carefully crafted lesson is over 30 slides long, and is full of learning activities as below: * Notes to help the teacher. * Starter - simple task where students self-assess against the objectives. * Matching task - answers are provided. * Practical / student experiment based around bird adaptations. * Gap fill activities (several) - all answers are provided. * Questions – all answers are provided. * Peer marking * Self marking * Up and about activity - doing the experiment. * Theory slides (carefully sculpted, interspaced with learning activities, not ‘death by powerpoint’). * Play ball. * Video clip link (carefully selected – this alone can save you 20+ minutes of searching). * Paired work activities – all answers are provided. * Homework * Scientific Literacy activity. * 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. As teachers we all work ridiculously long hours each week. Give yourself a break by purchasing more lessons created by “Barclayfox” once they appear on TES. Please note: when searching for resources please type barclayfox into the search box/engine and it will show you all our resources. Please purchase this lesson, and leave a positive review. This lesson is part of a series, whilst they all work very well as standalone individual lessons you may wish to buy others from the series: 0. Bundles – contain 3 or more of these lessons at a discounted price (however please note not all my series are bundled). 1. Variation 2. Adaptation 3. Effects of the environment (environmental variation). 4. Effects on the environment (organisms effects on the environment). 5. Transfers in food chains Thank you, and happy teaching! Yours, Barclayfox.

This lesson is 1 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 the 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 and discovering what the lesson is about. After revealing the title and lesson outcomes students self assess against their current understanding of this topic. Next there is a student lead laser light demonstration as they begin to identify the key properties of light. MAIN The slides then move on to lead the students in comparing light and sound. They will delve a little deeper into this by watching a video, discussing it and answering key questions. MAIN Next, the lesson focuses on numeracy questions based around the speed equation and the speed of light. Once this has been completed they can self assess their work using the answers provided. MAIN Students study a slide which shows the sun, an apple and a girl and asks them, how is it that the girl can see the apple? This leads to a discussion and the revealing of how rays of light move and reflect off the apple and into the girl’s eyes so that she can see the apple. MAIN The next activity involves the students grouping objects into luminous or non-luminous. There is differentiation via an activity sheet that can be provided to less able students if required. MAIN Students consider what a shadow is and how it is formed. This leads into a practical where students investigate how the size and position of shadows depends on the position of the light source and the distance to the object that creates the shadow. PLENARY In the plenary activity pupils complete a quiz which will uncover how much they have learnt during the lesson. Students who need further support set themselves homework to enhance learning of today’s lesson. EXTENSION ACTIVITIES These are provided just in case any group requires them. All resources are included in this great lesson, there is nothing for you to do but order the equipment for the demo and class practical (simply hand your technician the printed off kit list.doc) and if necessary photocopy the activity sheet. Thank you for looking, any feedback would be much appreciated :) Lesson 1 in a series of 5. Happy teaching, Barclayfox.

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.

This is a series of 5 lessons that expertly and fully delivers all the points within the NEW KS3 specification SoW on the light topic. These PowerPoints and their varied and interesting activities keep lower ability students engaged while allowing differentiation for higher ability. I’m sure you’ll find them very 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. ACTIVITIES: Practical experiments, demonstrations, anagrams, picture puzzles, differentiation, gap fills, matching activities, up and about, self and peer assessment, quizzes, videos, questioning, literacy etc etc etc. All answers are provided. Great variety, fun and engaging. SPECIFICATION POINTS – COVERS ALL OF KS3 LIGHT SPEC - SOME ARE LISTED BELOW: * Light travels in straight lines. * Light travels much faster than sound. * Speed of light. * Calculations of speed. * We see things because they reflect light into our eyes. * Shadows are formed when light is blocked by an object. * Recall how fast light travels. * Investigate whether light travels in straight lines. * Understand reflections, absorption and scatter. * Understand “refraction” is when light changes direction and speed as it enters another medium. * Work well as a team member during a “refraction” experiment. * How lenses correct our sight * Refractive index – and calculations * How can we show all the colours that make up white light? * Predict the colour that results when different colours are added together * How do coloured filters affect white light? * Understand that different colours are caused by light waves having different “frequencies”. * Be able to name the parts of the eye. * Understand the “function” of parts of the eye * etc etc etc All resources are included in these great lessons, there is nothing for you to do but print the activity sheets (if required) give the kit lists to your technicians and enjoy teaching it. Thank you for looking, your feedback would be much appreciated! :) Happy teaching, Barclayfox.

I find that this PowerPoint and its varied and interesting activities keep lower level students engaged while allowing differentiation for higher achievers – see below for details. I’m sure you’ll find it useful. This lesson is 5 in a series of 5 that fully delivers all the points within the NEW KS3 specification SoW on the “light” topic. 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 become engaged in the lessons by thinking/working in pairs to solve 5 anagrams to find out what today’s lesson is about (you could offer a prize for the winners). After revealing the title and lesson outcomes students self assess against their current understanding of this topic. Next there is a scientific literacy Q and A activity to ensure all students learn the key words required to understand this lesson. MAIN Homework is set and then students use the activity sheet (built into the PowerPoint – you just print it out) to work in pairs and label different parts of the eye, differentiation - higher ability explain the function of the parts. This can be self or peer assessed using the answers on the slide in the PowerPoint. MAIN Students undertake a matching activity to match the names of parts of the eye to their functions. This can be peer marked, and returned so that students can correct any errors / improve their work. MAIN Students recall the colours in the spectrum of white light, and this is developed into looking at the frequencies of the light and the relationship between colour and frequency. A gap fill activity promotes understanding of several key points and is self-assessed. MAIN Students watch a (carefully selected) short video that explain how our eyes see colour and then they have fun watching another video that tests their individual ability to see colours. PLENARY Students answer 5 questions by matching and then self-assess their understanding of the desired outcomes of today’s lesson now they have reached the end of the lesson. They compare their final understanding to their previously self-assessed understanding at the start of the lesson. Students who need further support set themselves homework to improve their learning of the content covered today. 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 print the activity sheet (if required) and enjoy teaching it. Thank you for looking, your feedback would be much appreciated! :) Lesson 5 in a series of 5. Happy teaching, Barclayfox.

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