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The 10 things you need to know as a trainee teacher

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How to nail the most important things from the off

Education in Chemistry

Ideas

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Improve manipulative skills for all

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Ensure your students stay safe in practical classes, especially those with difficulties handling equipment

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Improve numeracy for all

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Help your students improve their numeracy skills with these simple learning aids

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How to harness dual coding

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Why drawing in front of your class helps them learn

Exciting demos

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Cracking!

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Bright sparks

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The blueprint reaction

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The glow stick reaction

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Oscillating magic?

  • Cracking!

  • Bright sparks

  • The blueprint reaction

  • The glow stick reaction

  • Oscillating magic?

Evidence-based teaching

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Enhance explanations of intermolecular forces

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How small prompts can result in big leaps in student understanding

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Which is best: practical or simulation?

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Students interact with practicals and simulations differently, but does one approach come with better learning outcomes?

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Animations boost learning

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And reduce cognitive load

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Metacognitive motivation

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How it can positively influence students’ beliefs in their own abilities

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Tackling spectroscopy

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Get your students reading spectra like pros

Opinion

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Adventures in curriculum reform

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Has Successful futures got a successful future with teachers in Wales?

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Perfect harmony

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Technicians telling it how it is: relationship building

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Why you need to teach literacy to teach dist-ill-a-tion

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Students need to learn the language of science to make progress in chemistry

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Can health and safety training ever be sexy?

By James Gaynor, David Donaghy

Maybe not, but it’s vital

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Academy rewards

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Academies and their reliance on non-QTS staff

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How to teach ...

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Why you should teach the history of the periodic table

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Measuring energy changes

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Applying practical knowledge to unfamiliar contexts

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The periodic table

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Atoms, molecules and ions

  • Why you should teach the history of the periodic table

  • Measuring energy changes

  • Applying practical knowledge to unfamiliar contexts

  • The periodic table

  • Atoms, molecules and ions

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Education in Chemistry, September 2019, cover

November 2019
Measuring energy changes, lifecycle assessment, teaching the periodic table

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News & analysis

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How silkworms can help astronauts

Silk fibres stay tough and ductile even at low temperatures, making them potentially perfect for space 

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Mind the attainment gap

Can an American programme improve BAME students’ achievement in higher education in the UK?

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Microbes and renewable energy turn carbon dioxide into edible protein

A new process uses microbes and renewable energy to make proteins for human consumption

'Blackest black' material

‘Blackest black’ ever made

New material absorbs 99.995% of light shined on it

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