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CPDHow to teach quantitative chemistry at post-16
Use these tips to help your students successfully calculate reacting masses and limiting agents
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Experiment
Acid–base back titration | 16–18 years
Write balanced equations and calculate reacting masses and moles to find the limiting reagent
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Show students how to grasp the scientific process
Three teacher-tested approaches to building this skill successfully
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Tricky tracks: observation and inference in science | 11–14 years
Presentation, worksheet and lesson plan to help learners understand the difference between observation and inference as you build their understanding of the scientific process
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CPD
How to teach moles at post-16
Use this explainer to help students overcome misconceptions of this fundamental quantity
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Ideas
Boost student confidence constructing hypotheses
Ideas to help you teach this essential scientific skill
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Analytical chemistry in Ireland
Worksheets, project-based learning tasks and contextualisation stories to develop a core understanding of analytical chemistry
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Ideas
Escape the classroom: and try microscale chemistry
Escape room puzzles based on simple microscale reactions for students
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Everyday neutralisation myths busted
Give real-world relevance to neutralisation reactions by testing the basicity of toothpastes
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Resource
Is toothpaste basic? | 11–14 years
Test the basicity of toothpastes and give context to neutralisation reactions
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Ideas
Growing decision trees
Use this essential learning aid to help students solve complex chemistry problems
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News
Teaching tips for chemical kinetics
Students’ understanding is mostly assessed through numerical problems. Sometimes performance does not reflect understanding. Here’s why
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Practical
Qualitative tests for organic functional groups | practical videos | 16–18 students
Video and supporting resources to support a practical investigation to identify organic functional groups using a range of qualitative tests
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3 key skills your post-16 chemists need for university
How to help your students make the transition to higher education more smoothly
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Fertilisers and sustainability | 16–18 years
Investigate the rate of hydrolysis of urea and assess your learners’ practical skills, includes extension green chemistry questions on sustainable fertilisers
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CPD
Teaching observation skills at 11–14
Observation is a key skill for budding chemists. This is how to develop it with your younger students
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Microscale neutralisation and precipitation reactions | 11–14 years
Hone your learners’ observation skills with two microscale reactions: neutralising citric acid and creating a lead iodide precipitate
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Experiment
Antibacterial properties of the halogens | 14–18 years
Use this practical to investigate how solutions of the halogens inhibit the growth of bacteria and which is most effective
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CPD
How to teach controlled variable investigations at 11–14
Get your younger students confident with different types of variables and conducting well-controlled investigations
