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No preparation required! Physics, Chemistry, Biology also Maths Complete and ready to use high quality science lessons that automatically navigate you and your class expertly through the lesson and activities. All answers are built in. For up to 60% off these resources visit www.foxteach.com. FREE resource, leave a positive review and email us your tes user name and the resource you'd like (to the same value). Contact Barclayfox at: foxteach@hotmail.com

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No preparation required! Physics, Chemistry, Biology also Maths Complete and ready to use high quality science lessons that automatically navigate you and your class expertly through the lesson and activities. All answers are built in. For up to 60% off these resources visit www.foxteach.com. FREE resource, leave a positive review and email us your tes user name and the resource you'd like (to the same value). Contact Barclayfox at: foxteach@hotmail.com
Survival, classification and kingdoms - complete lesson.
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Survival, classification and kingdoms - complete lesson.

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

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Hello and Happy Christmas to you! Here is an excellent quality Christmas quiz packed with lots of high quality Christmas fun and many high quality engaging images. 3 rounds: Christmas films, Christmas songs, Christmas itself + 2 extension activities if you need them. No work required, PowerPoint is ready to use - let one of your students hit the return button as you focus on other things. Plus lots of very funny Christmas cracker jokes throughout to get you and the kids laughing and enjoying yourselves ! Get into the wonderful Christmas spirit, enjoy !! Best wishes, Barclayfox Christmas fun, xmas fun, christmas quiz, christmas quizzes
End of year quiz - Bingo with a difference to end the year.
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End of year quiz - Bingo with a difference to end the year.

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End of year quiz (which doesn’t mention Christmas). Powerpoint no preparation work required, project and go. 70+ slides. Round 1: Observation (video round) Round 2: Pop Music Round 3: Bingo Round 4: A to Z alphabet knowledge quiz (Maths, English, Science, Geography, History). Still teaching but with a fun element added to bring the year to a close. Happy Teaching Barclayfox
Bonding and properties - A single sheet handout for the class
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Bonding and properties - A single sheet handout for the class

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Many students get confused over Bonding and Properties So to help I have created this one single page in excel - which can be used as a handout to the class. The 1 pager covers: Metallic bonds, ionic bonds, covalent bonds, melting point, boiling point, conductivity, solubility. Happy Teaching Barclayfox
Light the complete KS3 topic in 5 lessons
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Light the complete KS3 topic in 5 lessons

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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.
Gas laws worksheet and answers  -Boyles, Charles & Guy-Lussac
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Gas laws worksheet and answers -Boyles, Charles & Guy-Lussac

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Gas Laws worksheet with answers Initially it teaches by providing some hints on using the gas laws of Boyles, Charles and Guy-Lussac Then the students do the questions. Answers included. 8 small questions, plus, 4 larger calculation questions covering: 2 x Boyle’s, 1 x Charles’, 1 x Guy-Lussac. Happy teaching, barclayfox
Christmas tutor time fun. Christmas quiz, great for tutor time, pastoral time etc.
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Christmas tutor time fun. Christmas quiz, great for tutor time, pastoral time etc.

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This entertaining quiz has 3 rounds all based on Christmas. Student lead so you can take a much needed break ! It is very very flexible and ideal for a 15 to 60 minute tutor time (has extension activities too). The 3 great fun rounds are: 1) Christmas general knowledge 2) Christmas films 3) Christmas songs. Complete and ready to use, with Amusing Christmas cracker jokes used throughout ! It’s a great resource that teachers of any subject can use with all ages from 5 to 19 years old. You could even use it at home with the family at Christmas by showing it on your laptop or projecting it… You can also use it for years to come, which makes it excellent value at this price ! Lots of high quality Christmas images, jokes, video links, questions and songs. A ready to use lesson - great for teachers of all subjects! Happy teaching ! Barclayfox. Key words: Christmas tutor, Christmas pastoral, family, fun, Christmas assembly, Christmas English, Christmas Geography, Christmas Geog, Christmas History, Christmas French, Christmas activities, Christmas activity, Xmas, saving Christmas, Christmas literacy, quiz, quizzes, Xmas, practical, team work, fun, entertaining, engaging, SMSC, literacy, happy kids, fun learning, catapult, elf, elves, sleigh, reindeer, Christmas maths, Christmas English, Christmas English language, Christmas English literacy, Christmas PE, Christmas PSHE, Christmas RE, Christmas French, Christmas German, MFL, Christmas Sociology, Christmas Psychology, Christmas Physics, Christmas Chemistry, Christmas Biology, Christmas Design technology, Christmas product design, Christmas engineering, drama, ICT, media, computer science, art, business.
Echoes and ultrasound
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Echoes and ultrasound

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Echoes and ultrasound - KS3 science lesson that teachers pupils about: Sound, using sound, echoes, what ultrasound is, Uses of ultrasound, baby scans, sonar, fish finders, dolphins, Calculation of distance from an object. It includes an attractive PowerPoint with many varied activities to keep students focused. The PPT includes an unscramble puzzle race, video links, gap fill, echo based literacy and numeracy, simple homework, and a plenary gap fill activity. No marking for you! All answers are provided throughout for easy peer or self-assessment. Duration: 1 lesson. Like you I always want to give my young people the best lessons I can so I have spent a lot of time and effort on this spread out over 10+ years. I hope you like it - if you do I would be immensely grateful for your feedback :-D Thank you for your time, and happy teaching! Barclayfox.
The Christmas Zombie Invasion! Xmas Zombies !
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The Christmas Zombie Invasion! Xmas Zombies !

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This is a highly entertaining Christmas lesson full of fun activities. Complete and ready to use, easy! There’s nothing like zombies to capture the imagination of your students ! The lesson 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 (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 themselves without help ! 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. Easy to use: All instructions are included and the lesson teaches the learners almost automatically, any of us can give this fun and imaginative lesson. Fun: How can we stop the zombie horde? How do we cure the zombies turning them back into people? Can your class save Christmas? Lesson length: The length of the lesson is very flexible depending on your needs. There are add and delete activities so the lesson can easily last anywhere between 0.5 hours and 1.5 hours depending on what you want. Happy learners: 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! Which teachers and age groups: It’s a great lesson that teachers of any subject can use with all ages from 6 to 18. Value 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 ! Skills and learning: 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 Christmas ! Happy teaching ! Barclayfox. Key words - does this help people who are searching? 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.
Momentum, p=mv, lots of differentiated questions + answers + practical - complete lesson.
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Momentum, p=mv, lots of differentiated questions + answers + practical - complete lesson.

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A complete, 3 tier differentiated KS4 lesson This is a complete lesson from start to end, with Differentiated resources and a Practical, There is nothing for you to do but give it a quick look through and familiarise yourself with it. Lesson objectives: * I understand what momentum is a measure of. * I can explain that momentum is a vector. * I am able to calculate momentum in lots of scenarios. * I can rearrange and use the momentum equation. In short this lesson contains: theory, differentiated worksheet with all answers, and a practical activity - for full details please see below. * Notes to help the teacher. * Starter - choice of two. * Short Starter - simple task where students self-assess against the objectives. * Activity sheet - Differentiated with ANSWERS. * Quiz with answers. * Questions – all answers are provided, students get lots of practice. * Up and about activity * Theory slides (carefully sculpted, interspaced with learning activities, not ‘death by powerpoint’). * Differentiated questions with answers. * Paired work activities T/P/S – answers are provided. * Homework * Scientific literacy activity. * Optional Practical Activity. * Plenary formative/summative assessment quiz / activity. * Student self-assessment versus objectives activity – so learners can judge for themselves how much they have learnt. Please note: when searching for resources please type barclayfox into the search box/engine and it will show you all our resources. 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 events. 3. Momentum, impulse, crumple zones and safety. Thank you, and happy teaching! Yours, Barclayfox. Search words: Momentum, momentum, momentum, miss spellings: mementum, momenyum, monentum, mimentum, mmomentum, momentum, what is momentum, mass, velocity, inertia, physics, p = m x v, p=mv, p=mxv, kgm/s, kg m/s, momentum, momentum, vector quantity, vector, mom, p=, units, AQA, edexcel, WJEC, OCR, Momentum, GCSE, N5, 10th grade 10 grade, grade 10, grade 9, 9th grade, 9 grade, 8th grade, 8 grade, grade 8.
Waves
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Waves

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KS3 waves. These contain many varied student focused activities: practical experiments, gap fills, teacher demos, matching, sequencing, high quality video clips, quizzes, science focused numeracy and literacy, topic based Q&A throughout. Complete and ready to use. High quality and engaging lessons from Barclayfox. Please don’t waste hour after hour after hour carefully creating lessons . I’ve already done that, these lessons have been successfully used and improved many times spread over 10+ years ! There is nothing to do - pick them up and use them. The 4 lessons in this Barclayfox bundle are: Waves (parts of a wave (PTAW), transverse, longitudinal, reflection, superposition etc) Loudness and pitch (amplitude, frequency, sound vs light, speeds, hearing range etc) The Ear (it’s parts and their function, loudness and ear damage, dB scale etc) Echoes and ultrasound (baby scans, fish finders, distance calculations, dolphins etc) If you want to know the details about each lesson just click on the images below Save yourself time, save yourself, hit the buy button now ! Encouragement and feedback welcome :-D Happy teaching! Yours, Barclayfox.
Vectors and scalars.  Physics.  KS4 (new GCSE 9 - 1).
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Vectors and scalars. Physics. KS4 (new GCSE 9 - 1).

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

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

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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.
Energy stores, pathways, carriers and transfers. GCSE 9-1.
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Energy stores, pathways, carriers and transfers. GCSE 9-1.

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

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Use this for all your new classes. Use it over and over again during the first week of the new school year. Use it again next year. Use it no matter what subject you teach. This complete lesson will give you and the class you have never met before a positive, fun and very useful first lesson together.
Space, geocentric, moon's phases, life cycle of a star, weight, mass. Worksheets, activities (6 + 6)
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Space, geocentric, moon's phases, life cycle of a star, weight, mass. Worksheets, activities (6 + 6)

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Worksheets on KS3 space. worksheets, activities, and card sort etc (6 + 6 associated Answer sheets) as follows: My weight on other planets - Worksheet and Answer sheet (differentiation via a ‘challenge mission’). Phases of the moon - Activity sheet with a PowerPoint giving the answers one by one (differentiated). . Heliocentric versus Geocentric (models of the solar system) - Activity sheet and Answer sheet (differentiated). Light and space - Question sheet with Answer sheet (can be used in class or given as homework). Life cycle of stars - card sort. Life cycle of stars - worksheet and Answer sheet (differentiated). Also, please note that complete and ready to use high quality lessons for all of the KS3 space and gravity and the universe topic are also available from me. To find them, in the resources search box simply type, barclayfox and a few words from the lesson list below to see the lessons. 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. * Life cycle of a star * Eclipse Happy teaching ! Barclayfox.
Variation and characteristics, inherited, environmental, both - worksheet with answers KS3
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Variation and characteristics, inherited, environmental, both - worksheet with answers KS3

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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.
Half life practicals - kinaesthetic and dice fully prepared. Radioactivity Graphs Decay Half-life.
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Half life practicals - kinaesthetic and dice fully prepared. Radioactivity Graphs Decay Half-life.

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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.