Barclayfox's Shop. Ready to use KS3 & KS4 lessons.
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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
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
Space, solar system, stars, galaxies, moons, light years, gravity, the universe. Complete KS3 lesson. This is lesson 1 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’. Updated and Improved 17th June 2019.
Ready to use, no preparation required ! Project and go !! The powerpoint will lead you through every step.
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES - are given towards the bottom of this text.
STARTER
Pupils will start the lessons by thinking and working in pairs in a race to unscramble some of the key words in today’s lesson. After revealing the title and lesson outcomes students 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, reviewing a solar system model, words unscramble, literacy activity, questions and answers, think/pair/share, quiz, sort into size order, mnemonic, self-assessment, peer assessment etc.
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 - STUDENTS LEARN TO:
* Understand the structure of the solar system and be able to draw it with the planets in the correct order. * Explain what keeps the planets in place ‘orbiting’ the sun.
* Understand what ‘stars’ and ‘galaxies’ and ‘light years’ are…
* Use new literacy words such as ‘orbit’ and ‘light year’.
* Comprehend the vast size of the Milky Way and the Universe.
Thank you for looking, your positive feedback would be very much appreciated :)
Lesson 1 in 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 designed to meet the new KS3 and KS4 specifications please type Barclayfox into the tes resources search engine to see all my lessons.
Happy teaching !
Barclayfox.
Your young people will learn what contraception is and about the various methods of contraception. By the end of the lesson they will understand the effectiveness and be able to explain the advantages and disadvantages of these different methods.
This lesson is easily and quickly adaptable. It contains SPaG, uncovers and corrects misconceptions, has a true or false activity, gap fill, picture puzzle, carefully selected NHS Video clip, homework and FAQ’s etc Suitable for both KS3 and KS4.
(Please note that If you have bought my contraceptive methods lesson there is no need to buy this one as well).
This is a good lesson for use in: SRE, PSHE, Science and RE.
Happy teaching !
Barclayfox
Here are a few more of my (many) lessons that I’m sure you will find helpful:
cells, tissues and organs (hierarchy of biological organisation) KS3 complete lesson.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/cells-tissues-and-organs-11288571
Adaptation, habitat and adaptations and inherited variation, survival. KS3 complete lesson.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/adaptation-habitat-and-adaptations-and-inherited-variation-survival-ks3-complete-lesson-11743787
Genes, DNA, Darwin, evolution, peer review and collaboration. Complete KS3 Biology lesson.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/genes-dna-darwin-evolution-peer-review-and-collaboration-complete-ks3-biology-lesson-11818249
Space, solar system, stars, galaxies, moons, light years and the universe. Complete KS3 lesson.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/space-solar-system-stars-galaxies-moons-light-years-and-the-universe-complete-ks3-lesson-11772336
There are many more high qquality lessons I’ve created, used and improved over teh last decade. Please type “barclayfox” into the resources search box.
Key words
Contraception, contraception, condom, pill, SRE, PSHE, reproduction, teenage pregnancy, methods of contraception, avoiding pregnancy, pregnancy, condom, pill, patch, rhythm method, withdrawal, sheath, ejaculation, fertilisation, IUD, coil, female condom, durex, diaphragm, cap, spermicide, injection, implant, sterilization, reproduction, sex and science, baby, pregnancy, contreception, contracepsion, contrecepsion,
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.
Gravity, weight and mass. Gravitational field strength on other planets. Complete KS3 lesson. Gravity is lesson 4 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’.
NO PREPARATION REQUIRED ! Simply print the worksheet (or you could project it) the PPT carefully leads you step by step through the lesson so no preparation required.
GRAVITY STUDENT OUTCOMES:
By the end of the lesson students will:
* Know what gravity is, and which direction it acts in.
* Understand the factors that affect gravitational field strength.
* Understand the difference between mass and weight.
* Be able to calculate weight and mass on the earth.
* Be able to calculate weight on other planets.
STARTER
Pupils will start the lessons by thinking and working in pairs in a race to unscramble key words 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 lesson.
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: calculations with answers, gap fill, matching, paired work, literacy activities, focused questions with answers and differentiation, word unscramble, homework activity sheet (unique), mnemonic MATTHEW, self-assessment opportunities, peer assessment opportunities etc. This good variety of activities keeps pupils focused and happily learning.
PLENARY:
In the plenary activity pupils complete questions and then peer assess 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.
COMPLETE AND READY TO USE:
All resources are included in this excellent lesson, there is nothing for you to do but photocopy the activity homework sheet and deliver the lesson.
THANK YOU FOR LOOKING:
Thanks for looking, your positive feedback would be very much appreciated :)
THIS IS ONE OF A SERIES OF 6 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.
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.
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.
High quality lesson by Barclayfox for the first time you ever meet any class - complete lesson, ready to deliver, use it over and over again - for each new class, every year! The most important lesson you will ever give is the first one to each new class!
Complete lesson, ready to use, you only need to spend 2 or 3 minutes completing the ‘who am I’ slide (a partly completed slide for this is included inside the lesson powerpoint).
Key Stages: KS3 and KS4 and KS5.
ALL subjects / ALL teachers.
You can use it with your tutor group too !
Use this lesson to :
Reduce the stress and pressure - on you and the students.
Sort standards of behaviour.
Improve your experience of the first ever lesson with a class.
Improve your learners experience of their first ever lesson with you.
The first lesson with a new class is the most important lesson you will ever teach. This is a truly critical lesson. It has been used and improved a huge number of times over many years.
During the lesson you will:
* Sort out the seating plan.
* Learn students names.
* Introduce yourself to the students.
* Start to discover which students will (e.g. follow instructions, write, spell correctly) and which are reticent/less skilled.
* Set and agree class rules.
* Rewards - find out which rewards the learners care enough about to try and get.
* Set expectations of behaviour
* Ensure students recognise your authority as the teacher.
* Help learners understand why work ethic is so important.
* Learn about individual learners needs.
* Learn about their individual likes (important in building relationships)
* Learn about their individual dislikes (important in building relationships)
* Start to build those critical relationships.
* Start to coach / motivate the students about learning.
This is an excellent lesson - I use it repeatedly with every new class from KS3 to KS5. Whether you are a new teach or a very experienced one this is a small investment for a great lesson to improve your experience and outcomes when you meet every class for the very first time.
Use it over and over again during the first week of school - excellent value.
Happy teaching !
Yours,
Barclayfox
Key words:
first lesson, behaviour, ice breaker, icebreaker, first time meet, complete first lesson, first secondary lesson, first maths lesson, first English lesson, first science lesson, first French lesson, first history lesson, first geography lesson, first tutor group lesson, introduction, classroom expectations, setting standards, start up lesson, new class introduction, meeting your new class for the first time, new teacher, my new class, back to school, meet the teacher, B4L, behaviour for learning, behavior for learning, behaviour management, behavior management, setting expectations, class rules, transition, all about me.
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.
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.
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, high quality KS3 lesson from Barclayfox.
(For USA - this lesson is for use between 6th to 8th grade).
This is a complete lesson from start to end, you do not need to spend many hours carefully planning, creating, resourcing and improving this lesson after each use. I have already spent those hours preparing this lesson for my students and improving it over many years. This is a very high quality lesson.
There is nothing for you to do but give it a quick look through and familiarise yourself with it.
Lesson objectives:
* Represent food chains using Pyramids of numbers.
* Describe how energy is lost as it transfers down the food chain.
* Calculate biomass and create pyramids of biomass.
* Explain bioaccumulation of pesticides and the effect.
This carefully crafted lesson is over 30 slides long, and is full of these learning activities:
* Notes to help the teacher.
* Starter - complete the food web.
* Starter - simple task where students self-assess against the objectives.
* Matching game - answers are provided.
* Role play - spread of pesticides up the food chain.
* Questions – all answers are provided.
* Peer marking & Self marking opportunities
* Up and about activity - role play
* Theory slides (carefully sculpted, interspaced with learning activities, not ‘death by powerpoint’).
* Activity sheet - with answers - simply print it off for each student if required.
* Play ball opportunities
* Video clip links - several (carefully selected – this alone can save you 20+ minutes of searching).
* Paired work activities – all answers are provided.
* Homework - optional / at your discretion using the activity sheet.
* Scientific Literacy activity.
* Scientific Numeracy activity
* SMSC opportunity - use of pesticides & effect on organisms.
* Student self-assessment versus objectives activity – so learners can judge for themselves how much they have learnt.
* Extension activities – just in case additional activities are required.
As teachers we all work ridiculously long hours each week. Give yourself a break, spend some life with your friends and family by purchasing more lessons created by “Barclayfox” once they appear on TES. Please note: when searching for resources please type barclayfox into the search engine and it will show you all our resources.
Please purchase this lesson, and leave a positive review.
This lesson is part of a series, whilst they all work very well as standalone individual lessons you may wish to buy others from the series:
0. Bundles – contain all of these lessons at a discounted price.
1. Variation
2 to 6 - please see inside the powerpoint for the list
Thank you, and happy teaching!
Yours,
Barclayfox
A complete and ‘ready to deliver’ KS3 lesson.
Lesson title: Lungs, gas exchange and alveoli
Lesson objectives:
Describe the structure of the gas exchange system.
Describe how parts of the gas exchange system are adapted to their function.
This is a complete lesson from start to end, you do NOT need to spend hours carefully planning and resourcing this lesson – I have already spent those hours preparing this lesson for you.
There is nothing to do but give it a quick read through and familiarise yourself with it, and if necessary, take some simple decisions the lesson guides you to make before delivering it. You may also wish to remove a few slides to reduce its length if required for your particular group of learners.
The lesson contains:
* Need list – telling you what to photocopy or what kit to order etc (if required).
* Notes to help the teacher
* Title & lesson objectives (as above).
* Starter task where students self-assess themselves against each objective
* Scientific literacy activity
* Questions – all answers are provided.
* Video clip.
* Paired work activities with answers.
* Theory slides (minimal – interspaced with thinking activities - not ‘death by powerpoint’)
* Gap fill activities – answers are provided
* Plenary formative/summative assessment activity / quiz
* Student self-assessment versus objectives activity – so learners can judge for themselves how much they have 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.
Thank you for your time !
Yours,
Barclayfox.
About this lesson.
This lesson is one of a set of 4, these are titled:
L1 Cells, tissues and organs. (which is L1 - i.e. Lesson 1)
L2 Lungs, gas exchange and alveoli.
L3 Breathing (inhale and exhale).
L4 Skeleton, joints and muscles.
You may find it useful to buy all the lessons in the set as they are linked together - for example a homework maybe given in one lesson and then tested in another.
Search words:
Lungs, gas exchange, alveoli, alveolus, oxygen, carbon dioxide, bronchi, trachea, lungs, gas exchange, air sacs, breathing, respiration, lungs and breathing, gas, exchange, pulmonary, blood, oxygenation, lungs, breathing.
A complete and ready to deliver KS3 lesson.
Lesson title: Cells, tissues and organs (also known as - Levels Of Organisation).
Lesson objectives:
Define and give examples of “tissues”, “organs” and “organ systems”.
Explain the “hierarchy” of organisation in a “multicellular” “organism”.
(“xxxx” is a scientific literacy word reviewed in the lesson).
This is a complete lesson from start to end, you do NOT need to spend hours carefully planning and resourcing this lesson – I have already spent those hours preparing this lesson for you ( I have used and improved it with my classes many times).
There is nothing to do but give it a quick read through and familiarise yourself with it. You may wish to remove a few slides to reduce its length if required for your particular group of learners - this is very easy to do as it is grouped into clear sections.
The lesson contains:
* Need list – telling you what to photocopy or what kit to order - if required.
* Notes to help the teacher
* Title and lesson objectives (as below).
* Starter task where students self-assess themselves against each objective
* Scientific literacy activity
* Homework (you choose whether your learners need to do it)
* Questions –** all** answers are provided.
* Video clip (carefully selected)
* Paired work activities with answers.
* Theory slides (minimal – inter-spaced with thinking activities - not ‘death by powerpoint’).
* Gap fill fun activity – answers are provided
* Plenary formative/summative assessment activity / quiz
* Student self-assessment versus objectives activity – so learners can judge for themselves how much they have 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 purchase this lesson, and leave a positive review.
About this lesson:
This lesson is one of a set of 4, these are titled:
L1 Cells, tissues and organs.
L2 Gas exchange and alveoli.
L3 Breathing (inhale and exhale).
L4 Skeleton, joints and muscles.
You may find it useful to buy all lessons in the set as they are linked together (for example a homework maybe given in one lesson and then tested in another)…
Thank you for your time.
Happy teaching!
Barclayfox.
Observing the stars and space exploration, light years, telescopes, probes, landers. Complete KS3 lesson. ‘Observing and exploring’ is number 5 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’.
COMPLETE AND READY TO USE:
All resources are included in this excellent powerpoint lesson, there is nothing for you to do but deliver it. Zero preparation time, project and go !
‘OBSERVING AND EXPLORING’ - STUDENT OUTCOMES:
By the end of the lesson students will be able to:
* Understand what a ‘light year’ is.
* Explain how large the universe is compared to the earth.
* Apply understanding of the ‘speed of light’
* Describe ways of discovering the universe from the earth.
* Explain how probes can be used to explore the universe.
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 lesson.
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 fills, matching, paired work, literacy activities, focused questions with answers and differentiation (“challenge missons”), picture puzzle, homework, carefully selected video, self-assessment opportunities, peer assessment opportunities etc. This good variety of activities keeps pupils focused and happily learning.
PLENARY:
In the plenary activity pupils complete a matching activity 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.
THANK YOU FOR LOOKING:
Thank you for taking the time to look, your positive feedback would be very much appreciated :)
THIS IS ONE OF A SERIES OF 6 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.
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.
Energy stores and transfers activity (new GCSE 9-1). Get a FREE resource! Details below. This is a high quality, differentiated, easy to use and ready to use practical activity.
ENERGY - THE LANGUAGE HAS CHANGED:
Tes is littered with energy resources teaching to the old spec. it would be wrong to use these to teach with today (some even say they are new spec. 9-1 – but they not). Please don’t risk teaching your classes incorrectly ! This resource is an engaging energy circus practical experiment for students. It allows students to learn the subject properly and clearly with differentiated and unique activity sheets you cannot get anywhere else.
WHY BUY THIS ?
Many many hours of effort went in to writing these unique and accurate resources
Tried and trusted, differentiated and complete. You can rely on this activity to give an accurate and superior learning experience.
WHAT DO I GET?
High ability activity sheet – for use during the circus practical.
Medium/lower ability activity sheet – for use during the circus practical.
Answer sheet.
Equipment list (to give to your technicians)
HOW DO I USE IT?
Teach the students about the 8 stores and the 4 transfers and then let them do the highly engaging and accurate to 9-1 spec activities as the main part of your lesson.
Then self or peer mark the sheets (answers provided).
OR, FIND A FULLY COMPLETE AND READY TO GO LESSON HERE:
Energy stores and transfers 9-1 spec
AGES
Activity for ages 11 to 16 where ever you live (so KS3/KS4 and USA grades 6 to 10).
OTHER BARCLAYFOX RESOURCES:
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Specialised cells - KS3 bio
Exothermic and endothermic - KS4 Chemistry
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Barclayfox.
Complete No-Prep lesson with exam quality questions, activities and answers on Gravity, Weight and Mass.
Written for KS3. However it covers GCSE content too and would be useful with lower ability GCSE classes.
High quality no-prep lessons so that busy teachers like you can teach excellent lessons without spending hours preparing and planning.
This high quality lesson delivered using PowerPoint includes explanations, different types of in-lesson activities and assessments (all with answers) and unique exam questions.
My lessons are ideal for both Physicists and non-Physicists – the lesson takes learners on a journey that carefully builds up their understanding step by step using literacy as one key element, while still going into the appropriate depth.
What’s Included:
• Teaching notes
• Starter / settling Activity
• Explanation slides in “chunked” sections.
• Worked examples of calculations / questions.
• Mnemonic.
• Gap fill & literacy activities.
• Unique Worksheet - with all answers.
• Exam-style questions covering the whole lesson content at the end of the lesson - these are unique, based on real exam questions not simply copied from exam boards.
• All easily editable to adapt to your teaching or to use in existing lessons.
The lesson is applicable to AQA, Edexcel and OCR exam specifications.
Happy Teaching
Barclayfox
Complete and ready to use lesson covering: Skeleton + Joints + Muscles
This is a KS3 lesson, in this lessons students learn among other things:
To describe the functions of the skeleton and the role of joints.
To name bones and understand where within the skeleton specific bones are located.
To understand the different types of joints.
To investigate and also explain antagonistic muscle pairs.
Activities for students include:
3 short starters based on picture for thinking, SPaG/literacy and thinking about what the skeleton is for (use 1 or all as you see fit).
Differentiated activity sheets.
All answers are provided throughout.
Gap fills.
Video.
Animated game - via a link to an excellent site that is well worth finding !
Questioning (all answers provided).
Label the skeleton activity sheet (diagrams and answers are included in this download).
Joints gap fill.
Practical experiment.
Plenary quiz.
Further information:
This lesson covers 3 topics, skeleton and joints and muscles. Consequently it covers all the important points but is not as detailed as spending 1 full hour lesson on each of these 3 topics (3 hours total). This lesson is very useful, even more so if you want to get ahead and build a buffer to allow for a revision lesson before the test or end of year exams, or if you have fallen behind were you should be in comparison to your teaching rota, or in case students find things more difficult later. If you need deep detail and to spend a total of 3 hours on these three topics then you could easily add some of your own content to this powerpoint.
Happy teaching !
Barclayfox.
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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.
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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 KS4 lesson
There is nothing for you to do but give it a quick look through and familiarise yourself with it.
Objectives / students learn to:
* Describe what is happening during the fission of uranium-235.
* Describe U-235’s fission products.
* Explain how a chain reaction works.
* Understand how a chain reaction can be controlled.
* Understand the different roles of control rods and moderators
* Understand the difference between fission and fusion.
This lesson majors on fission and chain reactions and their control (and briefly mentions fusion) and it contains the following activities:
Starter - picture puzzle to get the students thinking.
Starter (more) - game / quiz.
SPaG / literacy based on fission.
Video links (very carefully chosen and 3 in total).
Differentiated work sheets - 3 different levels of difficulty.
Gap fills.
Animations (2 different animations):
A single Fission reaction.
Fission chain reactions.
Kinaesthetic activity - get your students up and moving about.
Gap fill (on a different area of this subject).
Plenary quiz game.
All answers to all activities are provided.
Please note: when searching for resources please type barclayfox into the search box/engine and it will show you all my 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 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 -14 Please see this powerpoint for the full list.
Thank you, and happy teaching!
Yours,
Barclayfox.
Hints and tips on how to fall asleep and get good quality sleep. This is not a lesson as such. However students who are short of sleep find it very very difficult to learn, so hopefully this will help them.
I wrote this as one of my colleagues (yes he is a teacher!) is having a problem sleeping, and several of my students complain about not being able to sleep / lack of sleep. So I hope this will help them. It’s aimed as my adult colleague but these word docs can be very easily modified and given to students…
Best wishes
Barclayfox
FREE lesson, so you can see the quality of my “Barclayfox” lessons. Ready to deliver high quality KS3 lesson from Barclayfox. This lesson introduces waves by teaching KS3 learners about: Waves, wave types, functions, wavelength, amplitude, peak, trough, longitudinal waves, transverse waves, and superposition etc.
Like all my barclayfox lessons this is a complete and ready to use high quality lesson. I have used this lesson and improved it many times with my different classes across ten+ years.
There is nothing to do but give it a quick look through it. But, if you (like me!) cannot resist making a change its modular nature makes it very quick and easy to modify 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 !
I’ve spent a lot of time on this improving it after lessons spread over 10+ years, I hope you find this FREE lesson useful in your teaching. If you find it useful please encourage me with some positive feedback :-D
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Thank you for your time, have a great day !
Happy teaching!
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