All Applying scientific method articles
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ResourceMicroscale neutralisation and precipitation reactions
Hone your students’ observation skills by asking them to observe two microscale reactions: neutralising citric acid and creating a lead iodide precipitate
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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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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
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Controlled variable investigations: wrong report worksheet | 11–14
Use this ‘wrong report’ activity to tackle common misconceptions and elicit discussion about surrounding controlled variables
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Ideas
Practise purposeful practicals
Identify the reason you’re teaching a particular experiment to ensure students learn not just how to do it, but the concept and technique too
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The ‘broken’ practical approach
Take this approach to practical work to ensure students are learning, not just doing
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Microscale technicians in trouble! investigation
Some solutions have been mixed up – help the technicians work out which is which
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Ideas
Activities for developing key secondary school chemistry skills remotely
Ready-to-go ideas and resources for developing your students’ key skills while home learning, including interpreting graphs and writing about practicals
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Back to basics with spectrophotometry
How to demonstrate the Beer–Lambert law using your smartphone as a light meter
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Job profile
Museum scientist
Lucia analyses museum objects to help the Victoria and Albert Museum curators understand, date and authenticate them.
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Strategies to boost learning
You’ll be hooked on these approaches to improving the quality of student work
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News
New scaffolding method improves student argumentation
The key to a good argument is flowing SOLO
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Job profile
Chief technology officer
Cristina helps develop technology that could change lives by extracting disease from the body
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Job profile
Nanotoxicologist
Vicki examines how tiny nanomaterials present in everyday products such as medicine, electronics and clothing interact with our bodies to ensure they are safe to use or consume
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Job profile
Computational toxicologist
Tim works in this rapidly expanding area of toxicology using computer modeling to more efficiently assess the risk of chemicals to people to keep the public safe
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Job profile
Bioanalytical scientist
Claire’s work involves stress testing new medicines in various stages of drug development to ensure they are robust and reliable before being released onto the consumer market
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Analytical chemist
Tilly does research on human breath samples to potentially diagnose conditions like asthma and infectious diseases including cancer
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Development chemist, printing and inks
Mariam shares how she makes custom inks for their customers so they can safely print on food (like eggs) and food packaging providing vital information to the public
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Research assistant
Lewis contributes to cutting-edge scientific research using specialist equipment to potentially diagnose diseases like cancer sooner
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Scientific associate, NMR spectroscopy
Christopher uses NMR to identify the structure of new and unknown chemical compounds to support the development of new medicines
