All Designing experiments articles – Page 2
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Topic webMaterials, recycling and rubbish | 4–7 years
Connect your curriculum teaching on materials to engaging sustainability contexts. This topic web suggests classroom activities linked to recycling and how much rubbish is produced in your school.
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PracticalQualitative tests for organic functional groups | practical videos | 16–18 students
Video and supporting resources to support a practical investigation to identify organic functional groups using a range of qualitative tests
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Ideas3 key skills your post-16 chemists need for university
How to help your students make the transition to higher education more smoothly
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ResourceFertilisers and sustainability | 16–18 years
Investigate the rate of hydrolysis of urea and assess your learners’ practical skills, includes extension green chemistry questions on sustainable fertilisers
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ExperimentViscosity and ‘racing’ liquids
Try this investigation to get learners talking about properties of different liquids, with detailed teacher notes, classroom slides and a video demonstration.
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ExperimentIrreversible changes and the ‘fire extinguisher’
Try this investigation to explore what materials need to burn, with detailed teacher notes, classroom slides and a video demonstration.
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Job profileProcess chemist – higher apprentice, pharmaceuticals
Erin helps turn new medicines into finished products so that they can be mass-produced for patients.
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CPDHow to teach controlled variable investigations at 11–14
Get your younger students confident with different types of variables and conducting well-controlled investigations
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ResourceControlled variable investigations: wrong report worksheet | 11–14
Use this ‘wrong report’ activity to tackle common misconceptions and elicit discussion about surrounding controlled variables
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IdeasPractise purposeful practicals
Identify the reason you’re teaching a particular experiment to ensure students learn not just how to do it, but the concept and technique too
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ResourceThe ‘broken’ practical approach
Take this approach to practical work to ensure students are learning, not just doing
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IdeasThe fast guide to enquiry-based learning
Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about EBL and how to incorporate it into your chemistry lessons
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ResourceMicroscale technicians in trouble! investigation
Some solutions have been mixed up – help the technicians work out which is which
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Job profileResearch & 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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ExperimentSeparation techniques
An experiment into separating solids from liquids, using a range of simple household objects. Includes kit list, safety instructions and a great instructional video
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ResourceEnzymes and jellies
If you add certain fresh fruit such as pineapple to jelly, it will not set. The task in this resource is to investigate why.
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ResourceUse of salt in cooking, part 1
In this activity students devise and carry out experiments to test possible reasons for adding salt when cooking vegetables.
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ExperimentSherbet and popping candy: edible experiments
What makes sherbet fizz, and what makes popping candy pop? Discover the importance of chemistry in everyday eating experiences with this edible experiment
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ResourceWhite powder mix-up at the factory
Learners create their own chemical investigative company, and solve the mystery of the white powder mix-up. Includes kit list, and safety instructions.
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ResourceWater for survival | 11-16 years
Practical problem-solving investigation including filtration, distillation and temperature. Includes kit list and safety instructions.
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