All Asking scientific questions articles
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CPD
How to teach post-16 transition metals and complex ions
Everything you need to help your students master transition metal complexes
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How to guarantee student participation and recall
Use this teacher-tested questioning and rehearsal strategy to ensure fully engaged learners
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CPD
Everything you need to teach energetics at 14–16
Use these ideas to help students understand the world of energetics, enthalpy and equilibrium
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Why it’s important to encourage student decision-making in practicals
Improve student engagement, motivation and behaviour by giving them more choice
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CPD
How to teach electrochemistry at post-16
Use these tips to help your students calculate redox reactions and create electrochemical cells
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Custard experiment | 11–14 years
Introduce your learners to Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids as well as the explosive nature of powders
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Investigating cold reactions | 11–14 years
Explore what is meant by ‘cold’ and the applications of endothermic reactions
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Conceptual peer-to-peer questioning improves learning
Get the cogs turning for successful learning by encouraging the right kind of student interactions
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CPD
How 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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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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How to help students identify electrophiles and nucleophiles
Use evidence-based research and teaching tips to solidify understanding of reaction mechanisms
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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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Boost student confidence constructing hypotheses
Ideas to help you teach this essential scientific skill
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Review
Teaching secondary chemistry, 3rd edition
From misconceptions to maths, this book is an essential resource
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Boost scientific inquiry skills with strategies for reading and reflection
Tips to help students effectively design experiments and form researchable questions
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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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Mechanistic reasoning in the chemistry classroom
Do teachers need to rethink their explanations depending on their teaching context?
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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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Is toothpaste basic? | 11–14 years
Test the basicity of toothpastes and give context to neutralisation reactions
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Táirgeadh agus úsáid leictreachais | 9–11 bhliain
Nasc do theagasc curaclaim faoi leictreachas le comhthéacsanna spéisiúla inbhuanaitheachta. Sa ghréasán topaicí seo, moltar gníomhaíochtaí ranga a bhaineann le foinsí inbhuanaithe leictreachais agus monatóireacht a dhéanamh ar an leictreachas a ídímid.