All Comprehension skills articles
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Pesticides and agricultural productivity calculations | 14–16 years
Link food security to yield, percentage yield and atom economy
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Recycling plastics evaluation | 14–16 years
Develop your learners’ evaluation, extended writing and maths skills in the context of polymers
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Strategies to help students write scientifically
Essential advice from an English teacher on how to successfully model the writing process and boost your learners’ skills
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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 practise a technique to help learners understand the language used in extended-reponse questions and improve their answers
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Hanukkah doughnuts: interpret practical instructions | 11–14 years
Worksheet on interpreting practical methods using a recipe format, a scientific method and integrated instructions
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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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Demystifying scientific symbolic language
Teach your students how to understand and use chemical symbols in their learning
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Improve students’ scientific literacy through inquiry
Tips to develop students’ experimental design skills without the need for practical chemistry
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War threatens semiconductor production
Link the conflict in Ukraine, the impact on neon production and conflict materials with this story and starter slide
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Toiletries and cosmetics: what’s on the label?
What do all those terms on the ingredients list mean?
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How to use textbooks effectively
6 teacher-tested strategies for successful book learning in the classroom
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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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Effective reading strategies for the chemistry classroom
Try these simple, teacher-tested approaches to build your students’ literacy skills
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Separating caffeine | 11–14 years
DART (Directed Activity Related to Text) covering separation techniques, including dissolution, distillation and filtration. Decaffeination provides a great context to add depth to a sequence of lessons on separation techniques.
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Decaffeination – how does it work?
Organic solvent, supercritical carbon dioxide or water? A knowledge of solvents and solutions is essential for removing caffeine from your daily cuppa
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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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How to teach reading in science
Worried your students struggle with chemistry texts? You're not alone. Here are two solutions