All Communication skills articles – Page 7

Feature

Getting down to business

2014-09-10T00:00:00Z

Including commercial awareness in undergraduate chemistry courses calls for an interactive teaching approach, says Samantha Pugh

Opinion

The beauty of language in chemistry

2014-07-04T09:39:00Z

In chemistry we are blessed with a rich text with words influenced by languages from across the world. What are your favourite words and phrases in chemistry?

Opinion

Learning to write about chemistry

2014-05-26T13:04:00Z

How might we include meaningful writing assignments in our curriculum?

Feature

Mastering the art of online teamwork

2014-05-08T00:00:00Z

Claire McDonnell explores the use of wikis to facilitate group collaboration and assessment

Feature

Beyond the presentation: student authored vignettes

2014-03-06T00:00:00Z

Why stop at asking students to give presentations? The technology to empower them to produce versatile and reusable blended learning objects is readily accessible, explains Simon Lancaster

Ideas

Student posters on chemistry topics

2014-03-03T11:59:00Z

This post discusses the use of student generated posters and includes a video guide for students on how to prepare posters

Resource

Pollutant detection and remediation

In association with The National HE STEM Programme

Case-study involving the development of adsorption and photocatalysis experiments to study the removal of a pollutant from waste-water. This resource and its components are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Review

GCSE Science Skills Booster

2012-07-01T00:00:00Z

Jane Essex reviews this skills booster which illustrates the role of HSW aspects

Resource

Limestone Inquiry

This activity is most appropriate for students aged 14-16 to illustrate useful materials made from rocks in the context of problems associated with extraction of raw materials.

Lesson plan

Using a survey to learn what shampoos people use | 11-14 years

Collect and analyse data from surveys, exploring differences between subjective and objective data, using this lesson plan with activities for 11–14 year olds.

Lesson plan

How are fireworks and gunpowder made? | 14-16 years

Explore how fireworks and gunpowder are made using a mixture of chemicals in this lesson plan and directed activity related to text (DART) for 14–16 year olds.

The Mole

Online discussion

2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

US researchers report on an online discussion system which is designed to integrate and support scientific discussions within the classroom