Complete and ready to use high quality KS3 Biology lesson There is nothing for you to do but deliver it ! STUDENTS LEARN TO: * Describe how a person develops immunity. * Explain how vaccinations work. * Compare the advantages and disadvantages of vaccinations. * Investigate the spread of a pathogen by doing an experiment / practical * Analyse the meaning of the experiment. STARTER Pupils will start the lessons by thinking and working in pairs in a race to name as many of the body’s defences against infection as they can. This leads to revealing the title and lesson outcomes and then students think more deeply as they 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 create positive behaviour by keeping students interested and focused. There are various interesting student activities such as a practical experiment, gap fills, matching, play ball, 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 gap fill activity to uncover how much they have learnt during the lesson. Next they self assess and reflect on their progress against the lesson outcomes. Students who need further support set themselves additional homework to enhance the learning in today’s lesson. 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 huge amount of prep. time. :) 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 - this lesson. 3. Antibiotics - lesson 1. 4. Antibiotics - lesson 2. 5. DNA, Darwin, evolution and Peer review. 6. Preventing extinction. 7. Revision lesson. 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, immunity, immune, virus, bacteria, role, Edward Jenner, medicine, antibiotics, science, scientific methodology, smallpox, cowpox, antibodies, 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, pathogen, antibody, skin, stomach acid, primary defences, etc

Complete and ready to use high quality KS3 Biology lesson. All resources are included in this excellent lesson, save yourself lots of lesson preparation time! Students learn to: * Know what extinct, stewardship, exert etc mean and create a list of extinct animals. * Describe different way in which animals can become extinct and give examples. * Explain various ways to prevent extinction. STARTER Pupils start the lessons by working together to work out what today’s lesson is about. This leads the pupils to think about the Los and self-assess against their current understanding of this topic and then 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: up and about, gap fills, unscramble, literacy activities, questions, video, discussion, 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 Several extension activities are provided in case any group you teach requires them. Thank you for looking, this lesson will save you a huge amount 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: Extinction, conservation, seed banks, gene banks, zoo, safari park, captive breeding etc etc

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.

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.

This lesson is on Charles’ law for KS4. It covers temperature, KE, the Kelvin scale, and absolute zero. Students also learn 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). Happy teaching! Barclayfox Here are a few more of my 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, then repeatedly 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, temperature and volume, volume and temperature, T V P, gas law, gas laws, Kelvin, kelvin, absolute zero, temperature scales, Celcius, kelvin, degrees celcius, centigrade, kinetic energy and temperature.

KS3 Sound and hearing ready to deliver. This lesson covers: Sound and hearing, vibrations, loudness, amplitude, frequency, pitch LisA FisP, sound vs light, speed in a solid and gas, and hearing range. There is nothing to do but give it a quick look through it. you make a change its modular nature makes it very quick and easy to tune it to your exact requirements. No marking for you ! All answers for all activities are included in the PPT to allow peer and/or self-assessment to reduce your workload ! Thank you for your time, and happy teaching! Barclayfox. Students will be able to: Understand that vibrations create sounds. Explain why there is no sound in a vacuum. Explain why the speed of sound is different in a solid compared to a gas. Compare the speed of sound and light in a thunderstorm. Calculate how far away a thunderstorm is Know and use the LisA FisP memory trick. State the range of frequencies of human hearing and compare to some animals. Activities this lesson contains: Unscramble starter puzzle. Demo or video (depending on your groups needs) with Q&A. Literacy activity. Numeracy activity / calculations. Theory - carefully sculpted, lots of learning activities, Quiz with answers. Videos x2 (simply finding good videos can save you 20 minutes). Questions scattered throughout - all answers are provided. Paired work activities / TPS. Simple student self-assessment activity (learners judge their own progress vs LOs). Extension activities (if required) All answers are provided to make things easy for you. . . . . Key words: Waves, wave, waves wsave, wavse, wvaes, hearing, energy, vibrations, oscillations, frequency, pitch, loudness, frequency, types of waves, light, sound, thunder, sound and hearing, lightning, lightening, literacy, scientific literacy, waves, energy, KS3, hearing range, human hearing, dog, cat, sound in a vacuum, vacuum, vaccum, lisa fisp, LisA FisP

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Isotopes - a complete KS4 / GCSE lesson Lesson objectives: * Understand atomic structure. * Know what isotopes, mass number, and atomic number are. * Describe nuclei of different atoms using mass number and atomic number in the form: X superscript m subscript p. * Use atomic number and mass number to calculate the number of protons, electrons and neutrons in an atom. * Draw the structures of specific atoms. The lesson contains: * Notes to help the teacher. * Help sheet (can be given to all students, or to only those who the plenary shows found the lesson difficult, or to students who missed the lesson). * Homework sheet with answers (you choose whether your learners need to do it). * Starter - picture puzzle. * Simple task where students self-assess themselves against each objective * Big question to get students thinking. * Scientific literacy. * Revision game - played in small teams - all answers are provided. * Questions – all answers are provided. * Gap fill activities - various, with answers. * Theory slides (carefully sculpted and interactive to avoid ‘death by powerpoint’) * Video clip link (carefully selected – saves you time searching the internet). * Plenary assessment quiz. * Student self-assessment versus objectives activity. Waste no more of your precious time searching, buy now! This lesson is part of a series, whilst they all work very well as standalone individual lessons you may wish to buy others from the series: 0. Bundle – contains all lessons (if available not all series are bundled) 1. History of the atom and the discovery of the nucleus. 2. Isotopes and Mass number and Atomic number. 3. Alpha, Beta and Gamma – ionising radiation. 4. Changes in the nucleus – decay equations 5. Activity and half life 6 to 14 Please see this power point for the rest of the list. Thank you, and happy teaching! Yours, Barclayfox.

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

A complete and ‘ready to deliver’ KS3 lesson. This is a complete lesson from start to end, there is nothing to do but give it a read through and perhaps remove a few slides to reduce its length if required for your particular group. It contains: Lesson objectives (see below). Questions with answers. Paired work activities with answers. Practicals in groups – with scaffolding and expected results. Equipment list - to give to your technicians. Video clip link. Matching task with answers. Differentiated questions with answers. Student self assessment versus objectives activity. Working long hours each week? Stop, spend some life with your wife / husband / children / friends / family by purchasing more lessons created by ‘Barclayfox’ once they appear on TES. Simply type barclayfox into the TES search engine. Thank you for your time. Yours, Barclayfox. Lesson objectives: - understand what a mixture and a compound are. - explain how to filter a mixture - explain how filtration works.

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.

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 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.

Free handwritten worksheet with answers. Covers proton / neutron / electron relative mass and charge, size of atom and its nucleus, calculating the number of neutrons in an atom, drawing atoms, definition of an isotope, calculating relative atomic mass. I created this and used it for exam practice / revision. If you like this please take a look at my tes shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/barclayfox Happy teaching, Barclayfox.