All Comprehension skills articles
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IdeasImprove 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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Hanukkah doughnuts: interpreting practical instructions | 11–14 years
Compare and evaluate 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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Job profile
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
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Lending a hand with sanitiser
When one of the key weapons in the fight against Covid-19 was in short supply, some unlikely manufacturers stepped in
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Forensic toxicologist
Calum helps ensure public safety through the toxicological testing of everyday items like food, cosmetics, electronics, medicines and textiles to ensure they are safe to use and consume
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Science communicator
Fernando uses his scientific knowledge to explain complex science to the public so they can understand and appreciate the value of these discoveries that are important to their everyday lives
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