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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Latent Heat and Specific Heat Capacity - mix of questions for 9-1 spec. Both latent heat of vaporisation and latent heat of fusion plus SHC. Worksheets with differentiation plus all answers. In my mixed ability group I gave the low ability students the “silver” worksheet and the high ability the “gold” worksheet and they peer marked which worked really well. Interesting and engaging questions with some nice images. All answers provided for your convenience. 9-1 spec and suitable for all major exam boards. What you see in the images gives you clarity on the style and quality of the worksheets. Differentiated : “silver” worksheet. “gold” worksheet. Happy teaching, Barclayfox Key search words 9-1 spec, 9 - 1 spec, latent heat, latent heat of vaporisation, latent heat of fusion, Specific Heat Capacity, differentiated, with answers, LH, SHC, vaporisation, fusion, latent heat, energy, state change calculations, state change, heating and cooling.

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

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.

Too many of my students were making mistakes with significant figures and writing answer to the wrong number of sig figs. This skill is more important under the 9-1 spec so I wrote this worksheet with answers to help fix this problem. Happy Teaching Barclayfox

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 / full / ready to go AS/A level Physics lesson. It contains: Notes to help the teacher. Title and lesson objectives (see below). SI fundamental units activity. Questions with answers. Many numerical Questions with FULLY WORKED OUT answers. Definitions… Theory slides Homework (simple research) Video link (very cool) Assessment activity / plenary quiz Student self assessment versus objectives activity. Lesson objectives: * Explain what electric current is. * Define current, Amp and the Coulomb. * Understand and use the equation for charge. It also covers 7 Fundamental SI units. Please buy this lesson and leave positive feedback. Thank you for your time 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.