Half life - complete KS4 lesson Lesson objectives: * Do a physical practical to deepen understanding of half life and decay. * Be able to plot and explain a decay curve. * Find half lives from a decay curves. half life half-life * Notes to help the teacher. * Starter - simple task where students self-assess themselves against the objectives. * 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, * Practical in groups – with scaffolding text and results table blank and expected results (as required) * Equipment list – to give to your technicians. * Kinaesthetic activity – to aid recall. * Differentiated questions with answers. * Play ball * Paired work activities – answers are provided. * Scientific literacy activity. * Student self-assessment versus objectives activity – so learners can judge for themselves how much they have learnt. Thank you, and happy teaching! Yours, Barclayfox.

A complete and ready to deliver high quality 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. There is nothing to do but give it a quick look through and familiarise yourself with it. Lesson objectives: * Explain key words and phrases including “hypothesis”, “peer review”, “theory” and the “prediction”. * Explain the scientific method and how new hypotheses are validated by other scientists before they are accepted. * Understand trial by evidence. This carefully crafted lesson is over 40 slides long, and is full of learning activities as below: * Notes to help the teacher. * Starter 1 - unscramble the words. * Starter 2 - simple task where students self-assess themselves against the objectives. * Matching task - answers are provided. * Activity sheet - built into the powerpoint simply print this slide for each student. * Unscramble the words race. * Sequencing activity. * 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, not ‘death by powerpoint’). * Differentiated questions with answers (ACTIVITY SHEETS built into powerpoint simply print them). * Play ball. * Paired work activities – answers are provided. * Scientific literacy activity. * Homework * Plenary is the activity sheets. * 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. Bundle – contains all lessons (if available not all series are bundled) 1. History of the atom, discovery of the nucleus, Thompson and Rutherford. 2. Isotopes and Mass number and Atomic number. 3. Alpha, Beta and Gamma – ionising radiation. 4. Changes in the nucleus – decay equations 5-14. See this powerpoint for the list. Thank you, and happy teaching, 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.

This lesson is 4 in a series of 5 STARTER Pupils become engaged in 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 and A activity to ensure all students learn the key words required to understand this lesson. MAIN Homework is set and then dispersion is demonstrated by the teacher, this is an opportunity for differentiation as high ability groups can do a short practical. There is a Q and A activity to bring out the key points. MAIN Dispersion is linked to the colours in a rainbow and how a rainbow is created. The standard ROY G BIV mnemonic for remembering the spectrum is introduced. 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 that the apple is red in colour? This leads to a discussion and the revealing of how some colours are absorbed and some reflected off the apple and into the girl’s eyes so that she sees the apple as red. This progresses further into what effect different colours of light has on the colours that we see when looking at objects. Students then apply their new understanding to complete an activity and peer mark their answers. MAIN Students complete a practical experiment to investigate the effect of coloured filters on the colours that they can see. Next they look at the three RGB primary colours and the effects of adding them together. PLENARY A quiz - peer marked - which uncovers how much they have learnt during the lesson. Students self assess their understanding of this topic now they have reached the end of the lesson, and compare it to their previously self-assessed understanding at the start of the lesson. Students who need further support set themselves homework. EXTENSION ACTIVITIES A variety of activities are provided just in case any of your groups requires them either this year or in future years. 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 4 in a series of 5. Happy teaching, Barclayfox.

Temperature versus volume relationship (Charles’ law). T vs V relationship. 20 slide PPT lesson on Charles’ law. It covers: temperature, KE, the Kelvin scale, absolute zero, how to convert between Kelvin and degrees Celsius (centigrade) and vice versa. It then moves on to the relationship between temperature and volume and calculating temperatures and volumes using Charles’ Law. Also covers all the key language. Well organised and succinct with clearly made key points and well chosen images. This lesson explains the material in an easy to understand way. Provides an excellent ready to use lesson on this topic, or it can easily be adapted if you wish. UK KS4 and USA grades 9 to 11 (ages 13 to 16). If you bought my “Charles’ law" lesson, please note that is very similar to this lesson, please do not buy both. 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 quality lessons I’ve created, used and improved over the last decade. Please type “barclayfox” into the resources search box. Search words: Charle’s law, Charles’s law, Charles’s law, Charles law, Charles’ law, temperature and volume, gas law, gas laws, Kelvin, kelvin, absolute zero, temperature scales, centigrade, degrees centigrade, degrees Celsius, celsius, Celsius, Celsius, kelvin, degrees celcius, temperature scales, kelvin, lord kelvin, buoyancy, upthrust.

A ready to use worksheet on Energy levels Worksheet with answers for AS and A level Physics. Happy Teaching Barclayfox

A complete, and ready to deliver, KS4 For USA - this lesson is for use between 8th to 10th grade. Lesson objectives: Students investigate the effect of : * varying the force on the acceleration of an object of constant mass * varying the mass of an object on the acceleration produced by a constant force. This carefully crafted lesson is over 30 slides long, and is full of learning activities as below: * Notes to help the teacher. * Support sheet (can be given to all, or only to those need it). * Starter - simple task where students self-assess against the objectives. * Activity sheet (unique - results and questions) print for each student. * This lesson is based around a Practical / student experiment. * Questions – all answers are provided. * Differentiated questions – all answers are provided. * Peer marking / self marking opportunities. * Theory slides (carefully sculpted, interspaced with learning activities, not ‘death by powerpoint’). * Play ball - you can do this on any of the questions… * Paired work opportunities – all answers are provided. * 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. 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 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 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 high quality GCSE lesson. This is a complete lesson from start to end, you do not need to spend many hours carefully planning, creating and resourcing this lesson – I have already spent those hours preparing this lesson for you. There is nothing to do – if you don’t have time to have a quick look through it in advance the PPT will guide you smoothly through the whole lesson ! Lesson objectives: * Understand key terms e.g. sterilisation, diagnosis, treatment, tracer, gamma camera, radiotherapy etc. * Explain how and why radiation is used in sterilisation, and medical diagnosis, and treatment. * Be able to explain radiotherapy in detail. 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 themselves against each objective. * Matching task – answers are provided. * 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). * Questions – all answers are provided. * Theory slides (carefully sculpted, interspaced with learning activities, not ‘death by powerpoint’). * Video clip link (carefully selected – this alone can save you 10 to 20 minutes of searching). * Gap fill activity - all answers are provided. * Sequencing activity. * Up and about 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. 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. If you like this lesson please leave a 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 series are bundled) 1. History of the atom, discovery of the nucleus, Thompson and Rutherford. 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 and half life practicals 7. Dangers and precautions 8. Nuclear radiation in medicine (uses in medicine) 9. Nuclear fission and chain reactions (nuclear power). 10. Electricity from nuclear power. 11-14 Please see list in this powerpoint Link to the bundle - 50% discount! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-gcse-new-spec-atomic-structure-mega-pack-bundle-11795491 Thank you, and happy teaching ! Yours, 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.

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.

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 a huge number of hours carefully planning it and writing differentiated resources, I have already spent those hours creating this great lesson. Furthermore it has been improved time and again after each use – it is a tried and tested excellent lesson. There is nothing for you to do but give it a quick look through and familiarise yourself with it. Lesson objectives: * I can use the rate of change of momentum equation F = (mv-mu)/t. * I know what impulse is and can complete calculations. * I can explain how seat belts, airbags and crumple zones etc work. This carefully crafted lesson is over 40 slides long, and is full of learning activities as below: * Notes to help the teacher. * Starter - matching names, symbols and units. * Starter - simple task where students self-assess against the objectives. * Matching task - answers are provided (this is the starter). * Activity sheet - differentiated GOLD and PLATINUM. * Answers are provided. * Quiz with answers. * Differentiated Questions in the powerpoint – all answers are provided. * Peer marking * Self 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 20+ minutes of searching). * Paired work activities – answers are provided. * Homework * 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. 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. 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 KS3 lesson. Lesson objectives: * Explain that radioactive elements are unstable and emit alpha or beta particles when they change into other elements. * Explain what happens to the nucleus during alpha decay and beta decay and gamma decay. * Successfully write decay equations / nuclear equations. This carefully crafted lesson is over 40 slides long, and is full of learning activities as below: * Notes to help the teacher. * Starter – activity sheet (built into this powerpoint just print this one slide for each student, or project it) * Starter - simple task where students self-assess themselves against the objectives. * Activity sheet - built into this powerpoint just print this one slide for each student - ore project it. * Gap fill activity - all answers are provided. * Quiz with answers. * Questions – all answers are provided. * Theory slides (carefully sculpted, interspaced with learning activities, not ‘death by powerpoint’). * Physical model build activity - various colours of plasticine are required. * Kinaesthetic activity (as above) – to aid recall. * Play ball * Paired work activities – 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. You’ve found what you need, waste no more of your valuable time! This lesson is part of a series, and 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 (THIS LESSON) 5. Activity and half life 6. Activity practicals 7. Dangers and precautions 8. Nuclear radiation in medicine (uses in medicine) 9 to 13. Etc etc please search for “Barclayfox” on TES. 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! Barclayfox.

A complete and ready to deliver high quality GCSE lesson. 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. There is nothing to do but give it a quick look through and familiarise yourself with it. Lesson objectives: * Describe the function of the parts of a nuclear power station. * Describe how this is different to using fossil fuels. * Discuss the advantages & disadvantages of nuclear power. 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 themselves against the objectives. * Activity sheets “Big Picture” - built into this powerpoint just print these slides as described. * Gap fill activity - all answers are provided. * Quiz with answers. * Questions – all answers are provided. * Up and about activity - during “Big Picture” activity. * Theory slides (carefully sculpted, interspaced with learning activities, not ‘death by powerpoint’). * Play ball. * Paired work activities – answers are provided. * Scientific literacy activity. * 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. 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, and 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. Activity and half life practicals 7. Dangers 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. Prediction, theory acceptance and peer review. 14. Revision Thank you, and happy teaching! Yours, Barclayfox.

A complete, and ready to deliver, KS4 For USA - this lesson is for use between 8th to 10th grade. Lesson objectives: * Describe the difference between contact forces & non-contact forces. * State examples of non-contact forces and relate them to real life scenarios. * Describe what a force field is and what affects it. * Understand how the strength of force is represented and how it changes with distance. 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) - differentiated HA and LA and all answers are in the powerpoint. * Practical / student experiment. * Sorting activity * Gap fill activity on the activity sheet - all answers are provided. * Quiz with answers. * Questions – all answers are provided. * Peer marking / Self marking opportunities * 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. * Student self-assessment versus objectives activity – so learners can judge for themselves how much they have learnt. * Extension activities - only for use if required. 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 and non-contact forces. 3. Forces and Newton’s third law (N3L). 4 to 12 - please see list in this powerpoint Thank you, and happy teaching! Yours, Barclayfox.

High quality, complete and ready to use lesson. For use in KS3 and for lower and middle ability groups in KS4. ‘‘LIFE CYCLE OF A STAR’’ - STUDENT OUTCOMES: By the end of the lesson students will be able to: * Recall space facts such as what planets, moon, stars and galaxies are * Understand new key words such as nebula, red giant, white dwarf etc. * Describe the life cycle of stars of similar mass to our sun. * Describe the life cycle of stars of much larger mass than our sun. * Compare and contrast the 2 life cycles. STARTER Pupils will start the lessons by thinking and working in pairs in a race to solve a mini quiz. After discussion of the answers this leads to revealing the title and lesson outcomes, students then self assess their current understanding of what this lesson is going to cover. MAIN and MAIN and MAIN… This lesson is chunked into discrete sections to support learning and engender positive behaviour by keeping students interested and focused. All points of the specification are addressed. There are various student activities such as: unique activity sheet, carefully selected video, paired work, literacy activities, focused questions with answers and differentiation, quiz, homework worksheet, gap fill, self-assessment and peer assessment opportunities etc. This good variety of activities keeps pupils focused and happily learning. PLENARY: In the plenary activity pupils complete an activity sheet then peer assess it to uncover how much they have learnt during the lesson. They then self-assess themselves 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. OTHER BARCLAYFOX SPACE LESSONS FOR STUDENTS BETWEEN 10 YEARS AND 14 YEARS OLD: * Solar system, stars and galaxies and the universe. * Geocentric and heliocentric solar system models * Seasons. * Gravity, weight and mass. * Exploring and observing the universe. * The moon’s phases. * Eclipse * Space travel * Observations of the universe * Day and night MORE HIGH QUALITY LESSONS: For more lessons that meet the new KS3 and KS4 specifications please type Barclayfox into the tes resources search engine to see all my lessons. Happy teaching ! Barclayfox.

A complete and ready to deliver high quality GCSE lesson. 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. There is nothing to do but give it a quick look through and familiarise yourself with it. Lesson objectives: * Know what radon gas is, where it comes from and why it is dangerous. * Understand power stations produce dangerous radioactive waste and explain disposal methods. * Form your own opinions about nuclear power and its safety after studying the Chernobyl and Fukushima incidents. 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 - simple task where students self-assess themselves against the objectives. * Sequencing activity. * Gap fill activity - all answers are provided. * Quiz with answers. * Questions – all answers are provided. * Theory slides (carefully sculpted, interspaced with learning activities, not ‘death by powerpoint’). * 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. * 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. 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. 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. Activity and half life practicals 7. Dangers and precautions 8 to 14 - are listed in the powerpoint Thank you, and happy teaching! Yours, Barclayfox.

A complete, and ready to deliver, high quality KS4 / GCSE lesson from Barclayfox. For USA - this lesson is for use between 8th to 10th 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. This lesson is focused around the required practical. It is carefully crafted and is full of learning activities as below: * Recall previous learning on Hooke’s law, gap fill and video and a key question - all answers provided. * Complete the included unique activity sheet on forces and extension and Hooke’s law. Answers are provided, it is peer marked. * Successfully complete the REQUIRED PRACTICAL using the experimental activity sheet provided. This has instructions, diagram to show how to set up the equipment, method, results table, analysis, and questions. * Students draw a graph of results data. * Complete as much of the practical worksheet as individual students can. There are sections for all students to do and challenge missions for more able students. Answers are provided, it is self marked. * 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. 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.

Geocentric and Heliocentric models of the solar system, planets, moons, dwarf planets. Complete lesson. This is lesson 2 in a series of 6 high quality lessons that fully and expertly delivers all the points within BOTH the NEW KS3 Department for Education ‘Space Physics’ National Curriculum and the AQA KS3 specification / syllabus sections ‘3.7.2 Universe’ and ‘3.1.2 Gravity’. STUDENT OUTCOMES - are noted further down. READY TO USE - no preparation required apart from (if you want) photocopying the work sheet (or you could simply project it and the students could write the answers in their books). The PPT guides you at every step! STARTER Pupils will start the lessons by thinking and working in pairs in a race to solve a picture puzzle and work out what today’s lesson is about. After discussion that leads to revealing the title and lesson outcomes students then self assess against their current understanding of this topic. MAIN and MAIN and MAIN… This lesson is ‘chunked’ into discrete sections to support learning and engender positive behaviour by keeping students interested and focused. All points of the specification are addressed. There are various student activities such as: gap fill, matching, a unique differentiated activity sheet, paired work, literacy activities, focused questions with answers and differentiation, picture puzzle, think/pair/share, quiz, mini test, sort into size order, homework, self-assessment opportunities, peer assessment opportunities etc. Lots of variety to keep learners happy, engaged and learning. PLENARY: In the plenary activity pupils complete a quiz and then peer assess it to uncover how much they have learnt during the lesson. They then self-assess themselves 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. All resources are included in this excellent lesson, there is nothing for you to do but deliver it. OUTCOMES - AT THE END OF THIS LESSON STUDENTS ARE ABLE TO: * Understand the difference between moons, planets and dwarf planets. * Explain the geocentric model of the solar system. * Explain the heliocentric model of the solar system. * Understand why Galileo supported the heliocentric model. Thank you for looking, your positive feedback would be very much appreciated :) This lesson is one of a series of 6: 1. Solar system, stars and galaxies and the universe. 2. Geocentric and heliocentric solar system models 3. Seasons. 4. Gravity, weight and mass. 5. Exploring and observing the universe. 6. The moon’s phases. For more lessons that meet the new KS3 and KS4 specifications please type Barclayfox into the tes resources search engine to see all my lessons. Happy teaching ! Barclayfox.