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Education in Chemistry

Ideas

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Use global conflict to teach the Haber process

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How to link the Strait of Hormuz to ammonia production and sustainability in your lessons 

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Build resilience and independence to master reaction mechanisms

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Modelling, scaffolding and worked example problem pairs: a recipe for post-16 success in organic chemistry

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Cultivating confidence with bond energy calculations

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Use this checklist to help your students move away from misconceptions and calculate energy changes with confidence

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Exciting demos

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Microscale thermite

2026-04-30T06:25:00+01:00

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Thermite in a flowerpot

2026-03-12T06:02:00+00:00

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Explore the nitrogen oxides: unexpected equilibrium

2025-12-15T06:10:00+00:00

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Explore the nitrogen oxides: Avogadro’s law revisited

2025-11-03T06:00:00+00:00

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Forming a cloud in a bottle

2025-09-08T06:00:00+01:00

  • Microscale thermite

  • Thermite in a flowerpot

  • Explore the nitrogen oxides: unexpected equilibrium

  • Explore the nitrogen oxides: Avogadro’s law revisited

  • Forming a cloud in a bottle

Evidence-based teaching

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Make peer feedback effective in your science classroom

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How to turn students into thinking partners who give useful, actionable insight

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What GenAI can, and can’t, do for chemistry learning

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Use AI to support your teaching but remain aware of limitations

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Enhance learning with teacher-led explanations

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Plan high-quality explanations ahead of time to develop your learners’ understanding of chemistry

Opinion

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Why teacher-led instruction must precede enquiry

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Discover why you should rethink the order in which you teach and build students’ chemistry knowledge before letting them explore

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How are our curriculums changing?

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Change is happening across the UK and Ireland, and the RSC Education team are ensuring the science curriculums improve for everyone

How to teach ...

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Adaptive teaching helps every student thrive

2026-06-25T06:00:00+01:00

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4 ways to improve learning and understanding

2026-04-23T06:00:00+01:00

A chemical equation showing hydrogen reacting with nitrogen to make ammonia. There is an excess of hydrogen that will be left over after the reaction.

Teaching reacting masses at 14–16

2026-04-07T06:00:00+01:00

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How to break through the numeracy barrier

2026-03-26T09:11:00+00:00

The chemical structures and 3d models of methanol, ethanol and the two forms of both propanol and butanol

Teaching alcohols at 14–16

2025-11-20T08:09:00+00:00

  • Adaptive teaching helps every student thrive

  • 4 ways to improve learning and understanding

  • Teaching reacting masses at 14–16

  • How to break through the numeracy barrier

  • Teaching alcohols at 14–16

News & analysis

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Scientists float new findings explaining water’s unusual properties

Deepen your learners understanding why liquid water behaves weirdly

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Living biosensor lights up to detect wine spoilage in real time

A genetically modified E coli glows in the presence of acetic acid, giving winemakers a rapid way to spot spoilage before taste is affected

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Was a 2000 year-old jar the world’s first battery?

Amp up your lessons on metals and electrolytes with this downloadable story and slide

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Researchers crack two century challenge to form calcium bicarbonate crystals

Give students a real example of how solubility, ionic bonding and reaction conditions affect salt formation

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