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 It’s a great lesson you can use with all ages from 6 to 16 and it won’t go out of date so you can use it for years to come, which makes it excellent value at this price !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.

** Please do not buy I am updating it** Get a free resource ! Details below. High quality Biology differentiated worksheets and activity sheets with answers from Barclayfox. (3 activity sheets / worksheets + 3 Answer sheets). This is a KS3 resource, but it also produces excellent results by using it in the following ways: * As cover work that can be peer marked during cover using the answer sheets provided. * As differentiated homework that can be peer-assessed next lesson. * With lower ability KS4 * To revise previous learning with KS4 students These differentiated worksheets cover: * Create your own garden food web activity * Key questions * Investigate an ocean food web with differentiation * Matching key words to the definitions * Word search, * Who eats who * Many other key questions etc. * Differentiated with “challenge missions” Save yourself the many hours needed to prepare good quality resource with answers - I have already spent those hours preparing these for my students and improving them over many years. There is nothing for you to do but give them a very quick look through and photocopy for your students. If you buy - don't forget to claim your FREE resource! Purchase this resource, leave a review and choose another Barclayfox resource (to the same value) for free! Simply email your tes username and the title of your chosen resource to foxteach@hotmail.com Happy teaching! Yours, Barclayfox.

UPDATED AND IMPROVED. Chosen students can (if you wish) lead the class through this powerpoint – so you can focus on whatever (or whoever) needs your attention ! Ready to use – nothing to do. Have fun this Christmas with these highly entertaining, fun and engaging Christmas quizzes and activities built into one self guiding PowerPoint. Based on xmas throughout and split into interesting and fun rounds as noted below. *** GREAT VALUE AT THIS PRICE ! *** GRAB IT NOW! *Biology AND *Music AND *Sport AND * Bonus Round Details: Great value ! Contains over 70 pages of fun: Christmas Biology. Christmas quiz questions. Sport – identify the sportsperson or the stadium etc. Geog - cities, flags, country shapes etc. Music. Christmas cracker jokes. Huge numbers of high quality Christmas images. Music Videos (carefully selected). You’re fired. Surprise bonus round ! There is more than enough fun and laughter in these 70+ power point slides for a 1 hour lesson. Based around Christmas throughout. Fun, entertaining and engaging  Great fun for you and your classes ! Can be used for all abilities and age groups from 8 to 18 *** COMPLETE BARGAIN AT THIS PRICE! DON’T WASTE EVEN MORE PRECIOUS TIME SEARCHING - BUY IT NOW  *** 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: Holidays, Santa, fun, Christmas, Christmas quiz, literacy, numeracy, Christmas activities, Christmas assembly, Noel, Navidad, advent, 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. 

A complete and ‘ready to deliver’ KS3 lesson. Lesson title: Breathing (inhaling and exhaling) and lung capacity. Please note this is KS3 - breathing mechanism. It is not KS4 / G Lesson objectives: Describe the “process” of “inhaling” and “exhaling”. Describe how a “bell jar” can be used to model what happens during breathing. Explain how to measure lung “volume”. Measure lung volume in the classroom (simple experiment) CHALLENGE MISSION: Calculate your own lung capacity This is a complete lesson from start to end, you do NOT need to spend hours carefully planning and resourcing this lesson – I have already spent those hours preparing this lesson for you. There is nothing to do but give it a quick read through and familiarise yourself with it, and if necessary, take some simple decisions the lesson guides you to make before delivering it. You may also wish to remove a few slides to reduce its length if required for your particular group of learners - it’s modular design makes this very easy to do. The lesson contains: * Need list – telling you what to photocopy or what kit to order etc * Notes to help the teacher * Title & lesson objectives (as above). * Starter task where students self-assess themselves against each objective * Scientific literacy activity * Homework (you choose whether your learners need to do it) Video * Questions – all answers are provided. * Paired work activities with answers. * Theory slides (minimal – interspaced with thinking activities - not ‘death by powerpoint’) * Practicals in groups – with scaffolding text * Equipment list - to give to your technicians (excel file). * Numeracy activity * Gap fill activity – answers are provided * Plenary formative/summative assessment activity / quiz * Student self-assessment versus objectives activity – so learners can judge for themselves how much they have learned 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 purchase this lesson, and leave a positive review. Thank you for your time. Yours, Barclayfox. About this lesson. This lesson is one of a set of 4, these are titled: L1 Cells, tissues and organs. L2 Gas exchange and alveoli. L3 Breathing (inhale and exhale). L4 Skeleton, joints and muscles. You may find it useful to buy all the lessons in the set as they are linked together (for example a homework maybe given in one lesson and then tested in another). Key words Breathing mechanism, breathing, diapgragm, lungs, lung caopacity, lung capacity, how we breath, muscles, rib cage, diaphragm, inhale, exhale, lung capacity, lung capacity experiement, lung capacity experiment, numeracy, literacy, Breathing , inhaling and exhaling, and lung capacity,

KS3 Biology worksheet with answers This worksheet covers: Predator prey cycles and what happens as the number of prey changes, what happens when number of predators change, why predators are generally bigger than prey, why there are fewer predators than prey etc… There is nothing for you to do but give it a very quick look through and familiarise yourself with it and photocopy it for your students. Written in power point so you can project the answers to make things easier for you, and students can peer or self mark. Thank you, and happy teaching! Yours, Barclayfox.

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.

This worksheet covers: Variation and characteristics including inherited variation, environmental variation and characteristics affected by both. Differentiated for the able and less able. Save yourself the hours needed to prepare a differentiated resource with answers as I have already spent those hours preparing this for my students and improving it over many years. There is nothing for you to do but give it a very quick look through and familiarise yourself with it and photocopy it for your students. As teachers we all work ridiculously long hours each week. Give yourself a break by purchasing more lessons and resources 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 resource and leave a positive review. Thank you, and happy teaching! Yours, Barclayfox.

This lesson is designed as an introductory lesson. Ideal for the first lesson in September. It includes a quiz and student information collection. To accompany the PowerPoint there is a video and key points sheet.

Two differentiated KS4 Biology activity sheets with answers. Drug names (from alcohol to tranquilisers), 4 types of drugs: Stimulants, Depressants, Analgesics, Hallucinogens, therapeutic and recreational, legal and illegal, risks and effects etc. HA - Higher Ability MA - for lower and middle ability. Both have answer sheets. Good activity sheets to form the differentiated centre piece of your lesson. Happy teaching! Regards, 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.

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

Your young people will learn what contraception is and about the various methods of contraception. By the end of the lesson they will understand the effectiveness and be able to explain the advantages and disadvantages of these different methods. This lesson is easily and quickly adaptable. It contains SPaG, uncovers and corrects misconceptions, has a true or false activity, gap fill, picture puzzle, carefully selected NHS Video clip, homework and FAQ’s etc Suitable for both KS3 and KS4. (Please note that If you have bought my contraceptive methods lesson there is no need to buy this one as well). This is a good lesson for use in: SRE, PSHE, Science and RE. Happy teaching ! Barclayfox Here are a few more of my (many) lessons that I’m sure you will find helpful: cells, tissues and organs (hierarchy of biological organisation) KS3 complete lesson. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/cells-tissues-and-organs-11288571 Adaptation, habitat and adaptations and inherited variation, survival. KS3 complete lesson. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/adaptation-habitat-and-adaptations-and-inherited-variation-survival-ks3-complete-lesson-11743787 Genes, DNA, Darwin, evolution, peer review and collaboration. Complete KS3 Biology lesson. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/genes-dna-darwin-evolution-peer-review-and-collaboration-complete-ks3-biology-lesson-11818249 Space, solar system, stars, galaxies, moons, light years and the universe. Complete KS3 lesson. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/space-solar-system-stars-galaxies-moons-light-years-and-the-universe-complete-ks3-lesson-11772336 There are many more high qquality lessons I’ve created, used and improved over teh last decade. Please type “barclayfox” into the resources search box. Key words Contraception, contraception, condom, pill, SRE, PSHE, reproduction, teenage pregnancy, methods of contraception, avoiding pregnancy, pregnancy, condom, pill, patch, rhythm method, withdrawal, sheath, ejaculation, fertilisation, IUD, coil, female condom, durex, diaphragm, cap, spermicide, injection, implant, sterilization, reproduction, sex and science, baby, pregnancy, contreception, contracepsion, contrecepsion,

This lesson explains what contraception is and the various methods of contraception. By the end of the lesson your young people will understand the effectiveness and be able to explain the advantages and disadvantages of these different methods. This will give them appropriate knowledge to make informed decisions for themselves as they grow up. This lesson is easily and quickly adaptable. It contains SPaG, uncovers and corrects misconceptions, has a true or false activity, gap fill, picture puzzle, carefully selected NHS Video clip, homework and FAQ’s etc Suitable for both KS3 and KS4. Please do not buy my other “contraception” lesson if you buy this one, they are very similar, thank you. Here are a few more of my (many) lessons that I’m sure you’ll find helpful: Cells, tissues and organs (hierarchy of biological organisation) KS3 complete lesson, forms part of a complete series of lessons for this topic. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/cells-tissues-and-organs-11288571 Adaptation, habitat and adaptations and inherited variation, survival. KS3 complete lesson. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/adaptation-habitat-and-adaptations-and-inherited-variation-survival-ks3-complete-lesson-11743787 Genes, DNA, Darwin, evolution, peer review and collaboration. Complete KS3 Biology lesson. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/genes-dna-darwin-evolution-peer-review-and-collaboration-complete-ks3-biology-lesson-11818249 Space, solar system, stars, galaxies, moons, light years and the universe. Complete KS3 lesson AND part of a full series. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/space-solar-system-stars-galaxies-moons-light-years-and-the-universe-complete-ks3-lesson-11772336 There are many more high quality lessons I’ve created, and repeatedly used and improved over the last decade. Please type “barclayfox” into the resources search box. Happy teaching ! Barclayfox Key words Contraception, methods of contraception, the pill, rhythm, pregnant, avoiding pregnancy, pregnancy, condom, pill, patch, rhythm method, withdrawal, sheath, ejaculation, fertilisation, IUD, coil, female condom, durex, diaphragm, cap, spermicide, injection, implant, sterilization, boy, girl, sex, sex education, reproduction, PSHE, RSE, fertilization, sex and relationships, health care, STI’s, health, reproduction, sex and science, human reproduction, sex and relationships.

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

KS3 - complete lesson. You place the file attached on the shared area, and students copy the file, and then follow the instructions, watch the video, and learn using the internet links. They complete the questions and activities. It covers: adaptation, variation, habitat and adaptations, inherited variation, survival. A complete, and ready to use. There is nothing for you to do but give it a quick look through and familiarise yourself with it. 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. Thank you, and happy teaching! Yours, Barclayfox.

A complete, and ready to deliver, high quality KS3 lesson from Barclayfox. (For USA - this lesson is for use between 6th to 8th 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 causes of environmental variation. * Describe adaptations to both daily changes and seasonal changes. * Identify which variations are environmental, which are inherited and which are both. 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. * Activity sheet (unique) - 2 separate pages * Gap fill activity - all answers are provided. * Questions – all answers are provided. * Peer marking and self marking opportunities. * Up and about game/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 – all answers are provided. * Homework (optional using activity sheet) * Scientific Literacy activity. * Plenary up and about game. * 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, 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. 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.

A complete, and ready to deliver, high quality KS3 lesson from Barclayfox. (For USA - this lesson is for use between 6th to 8th 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 ready to use lesson. There is nothing for you to do but give it a quick look through and familiarise yourself with it. Lesson objectives: * Be able to name some drugs. * Be able to define what a drug is. * Define the 4 drug groups (e.g. stimulant, hallucinogen etc). * Categorise drugs into the 4 groups. * Describe the effects different types of drugs have on both health and behaviour. This carefully crafted lesson is over 30 slides long, and is full of learning activities as below: * Notes to help the teacher. * Starter - identify which are drugs. * Starter - simple task where students self-assess against the objectives. * Matching task - answers are provided. * Gap fill activity - all answers are provided. * Quiz with answers. * Questions – all answers are provided. * Peer marking * Self marking * Up and about activity * Theory slides (carefully sculpted, interspaced with learning activities, not ‘death by powerpoint’). * Play ball. * Paired work activities – all answers are provided. * Scientific Literacy activity. * SMSC * Plenary formative/summative assessment quiz / 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, 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 lesson from Barclayfox. (For USA - this lesson is for use between 6th to 8th 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: * Represent food chains using Pyramids of numbers. * Describe how energy is lost as it transfers down the food chain. * Calculate biomass and create pyramids of biomass. * Explain bioaccumulation of pesticides and the effect. This carefully crafted lesson is over 30 slides long, and is full of these learning activities: * Notes to help the teacher. * Starter - complete the food web. * Starter - simple task where students self-assess against the objectives. * Matching game - answers are provided. * Role play - spread of pesticides up the food chain. * Questions – all answers are provided. * Peer marking & Self marking opportunities * Up and about activity - role play * Theory slides (carefully sculpted, interspaced with learning activities, not ‘death by powerpoint’). * Activity sheet - with answers - simply print it off for each student if required. * Play ball opportunities * Video clip links - several (carefully selected – this alone can save you 20+ minutes of searching). * Paired work activities – all answers are provided. * Homework - optional / at your discretion using the activity sheet. * Scientific Literacy activity. * Scientific Numeracy activity * SMSC opportunity - use of pesticides & effect on organisms. * 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, spend some life with your friends and 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 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 all of these lessons at a discounted price. 1. Variation 2 to 6 - please see inside the powerpoint for the list Thank you, and happy teaching! Yours, Barclayfox

Complete and ready to use high quality KS3 Biology lesson. All resources are included in this engaging and fun lesson. Students learn to: * Understand new key words such as vaccine, smallpox, bacteria etc * Describe the role of vaccines in fighting disease. * Explain how vaccines work. * Analyse the sequence describing how Edward Jenner developed the very first vaccine. STARTER Pupils will start the lessons by thinking and working in pairs in a race to work out a picture puzzle. This leads to revealing the title and lesson outcomes, and then students self assess against their current understanding of this topic (at the end of the lesson they will use this assessment to reflect on how much progress they made during the lesson). MAIN and MAIN and MAIN… This lesson is ‘chunked’ into discrete sections to support learning and create positive behaviour by keeping students interested and focused as they have fun learning. There are various interesting and fun student activities such as gap fill, matching, video, sequencing, literacy activity, questions with answers, recall, think/pair/share, quiz, self-assessment and peer assessment opportunities, up and about game etc. PLENARY In the plenary activity pupils complete a physical (up and about) quiz to uncover how much they have learnt during the lesson. Next they self assess their progress against the lesson outcomes. Students who need further support set themselves additional homework to enhance learning of today’s lesson. EXTENSION ACTIVITIES These are provided just in case any group requires them. Thank you for looking, your positive feedback would be very much appreciated :) Other Barclayfox lessons in this series: 0. Bundle – contains all lessons (if available, not all series are bundled) 1. Vaccinations – lesson 1 (Immunity & Edward Jenner & Penicillin etc). 2. Vaccinations – lesson 2 (Advantages & disadvantages, how pathogens spread etc). 3. Antibiotics - lesson 1 (Medicines, Fleming, penicillin, selecting an appropriate antibiotic) 4. Antibiotics - lesson 2 (Antibiotic resistance, superbugs, MRSA, antibiotic resistant bacteria). 5. DNA & Darwin & evolution & Peer review (Discovery of the structure of DNA, evolution etc) 6. Preventing extinction (conservation, seed banks, gene banks, captive breeding etc) 7. Revision lesson. (Vaccines, antibiotics, DNA, evolution, extinction etc). For more great lessons please type Barclayfox into the tes resources search engine to see all my lessons. Happy teaching ! Barclayfox. Search Words: vaccine, vaccination, Edward Jenner, immunity, immune, virus, bacteria, smallpox, cowpox, antibodies, MMR, Mumps, Measles, Rubella, vaccination, German measles, HPV, human papilloma virus.

Complete and ready to use high quality KS3 Biology lesson from Barclayfox. All resources are included in this well differentiated excellent lesson, there is nothing for you to do but deliver it ! STUDENTS WILL LEARN TO: * Understand what antibiotics can treat and what they cannot. * Describe the use of antibiotics and how they work. * Explain how Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. * Successfully complete an experiment to select an appropriate antibiotic. STARTER Pupils start the lessons by thinking about the Los and self-assessing against their current understanding of this topic and undertaking a scientific literacy activity. MAIN and MAIN and MAIN… This lesson is ‘chunked’ into discrete sections to support learning and create positive behaviour by keeping students interested and focused. There is a very good variety of interesting student activities such as a practical experiment, gap fill, matching, literacy activity, quick quiz, recall, think/pair/share, questions with answers, self-assessment and peer assessment opportunities etc etc. PLENARY Learners self assess and reflect on their progress against the lesson outcomes. EXTENSION ACTIVITIES A good variety of extension activities are provided just in case any group you teach requires them. Thank you for looking, this lesson will save you a lot of time and effort, if you choose to buy your positive feedback on tes would be very much appreciated :) Other Barclayfox lessons in this series: 0. Bundle – contains all lessons (if available, not all series are bundled). 1. Vaccinations – lesson 1. (Vaccinations, immunity and Edward Jenner) 2. Vaccinations – lesson 2. (Advantages & disadvantages of vaccinations, how pathogens spread etc) 3. Antibiotics - lesson 1. (Medicines, Fleming, penicillin and selecting an appropriate antibiotic) 4. Antibiotics - lesson 2. (Antibiotic resistance, super bugs, MRSA, resistant bacteria) 5. DNA & Darwin & evolution & Peer review. (Discovery of the structure of DNA, evolution etc) 6. Preventing extinction. (Preventing extinction, conservation, seed banks, captive breeding etc) 7. Revision lesson. (Vaccines, antibiotics, DNA, Evolution, extinction etc) Happy teaching ! Barclayfox. Search Words: Antibiotics, Penicillin, Alexander Fleming, medicines, vaccine, vaccination, immunity, immune, virus, bacteria, Doctor, nurse, medicine, syringe, petri dish, microscope, illness, ill, cure, blood, white blood cell, fungus, germ, germs, disease, roll, MMR, Mumps, Measles, Rubella, vaccination, German measles, HPV, human papilloma virus, cancer, immune system, injection, droplet, observation, hypothesis, theory, experiment, pathogen, antibody, skin, stomach acid, primary defences, etc