All Communication skills articles
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IdeasBuilding literacy skills in science
Follow this guide to introduce and develop your students’ literacy skills in science
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Improve your students’ literacy in science skills
Use these tips to help your pupils write and talk like a scientist
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Structure and bonding: exploding exam questions | 14–16 years
Present and prastice a technique to help learners understand the language used in extended-reponse questions and improve their answers
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Moving from fossil fuels to renewable energy
Recent steep price increases could push us towards renewable energy
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The politics of energy – structure strip | 14–16 years
Develop your learners reading comprehension and writing skills while revisiting topics from organic and atmospheric chemistry
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How to harness social media to teach the development of the periodic table
Help students understand how scientific ideas are developed by creating social media posts from historic scientists
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How to apply cognitive load theory to chemistry topics
Ideas from cognitive science to transform your chemistry teaching
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Reciprocal reading task: agriculture and ammonia | 14–16 years
Provide context and help build cultural and science capital, while improving learners’ reading skills
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Catalysts and reaction conditions for sustainable industry | 16–18 years
Research and presentation activity based on catalysts and reaction conditions in the context of sustainable industry
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Effective reading strategies for the chemistry classroom
Try these simple, teacher-tested approaches to build your students’ literacy skills
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Job profile
Senior director of chip research
Jason talks about his team’s important work on a platform that allows scientists to sequence DNA wherever they are and uncover viral outbreaks, or identify new species.
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Executive editor, scientific publishing
Katie uses her chemistry background and works with scientists around the world to advance the chemical sciences by publishing the latest leading research in scientific journals
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Research & development team leader - smart food labels
Giorgia leads a team at a small company that is helping to fight food waste by developing smart labels technology
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Secondary school science teacher
Alice teaches in a secondary school chemistry department helping her students thrive in the future
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Analyst – higher apprentice, organic chemistry
Katty monitors the levels of organic materials in drinking and wastewater to ensure it is safe to drink.
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Museum scientist
Lucia analyses museum objects to help the Victoria and Albert Museum curators understand, date and authenticate them.
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Classroom questions: fears, units and chat
Experts answer questions about using units in calculations and encouraging classroom chats from trainee, newly qualified and early career teachers
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Plant-based plastics | 11–14 years
Put chemistry into context and encourage your 11–14 students to use their critical thinking skills with these classroom activities
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School science technician
Sandrine works with teachers to design and safely prepare exciting classroom chemistry experiments
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Escape the classroom: and explore colour change reactions
In this escape room article, students explore colour change reactions to reveal hidden codes
