All RSC Education articles in Education in Chemistry – September 2021
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OpinionChipping in with transition
What classroom teachers can do to support new secondary students
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Ideas
Teaching chemical changes (at Halloween)
Turn your younger students into wizards at chemistry with these simple practical ideas
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Article
September 2021: Use ideas from this issue
Ideas for your classroom and teaching from our September 2021 issue
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News
Understanding why chemistry is important boosts results
Use simple interventions to help students work out the real-life reasons why it is important to study chemistry
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Feature
How to draw electron configuration diagrams
Use this step-by-step to get your 14–16 students drawing electron configuration diagrams confidently
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Article
Puzzles from this issue
Test your brains with our quick crossword, anagram word search and brain teaser
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In my classroom
Who teaches in a space like this?
Curious about other teaching spaces? Take a peek inside the teaching spaces at Jedburgh Grammar Campus then
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Exhibition chemistry
Dynamite soap: The combustion of stoichiometric hydrogen–oxygen mixtures
Add this quick demo to the end of a lesson on squeaky pops to show the dramatic impact of mixing chemicals in the correct proportions
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News
Graphene veil prevents fading
Atomically-thin graphene lattices are being used as a barrier against ageing
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CPD
Teaching rates of reaction post-16: part 2
Ideas and activities to help students explore catalysts
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Ideas
How to bring your CPD from books to the classroom
Four easy steps to develop your teaching through books and articles
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Feature
The challenges of practical work post-16
What are the difficulties students face when they begin to tackle experiments in their last years of secondary school chemistry?
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Ideas
Meeting a new class
Set the tone with students from the very first lesson as you go back to school
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Feature
Meteorite chemistry
What is a meteorite made of? Studying the composition of meteors allows scientists to look back billions of years to before the birth of the solar system
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News
Leaded petrol still poisoning London’s air
20 years after it was banned, leaded petrol remains a significant contributor to air pollution in the UK’s capital
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CPD
Teaching observation skills at 11–14
Observation is a key skill for budding chemists. This is how to develop it with your younger students
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Opinion
Why you should use virtual labs
Digital technologies, online animations and virtual experiments have an important role to play in practical learning, argue teachers Euan Douglas and Ramrajiv Rajendram
