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Analysing the effects of human leisure

2023-09-29T08:01:00+01:00By

From cocaine to antihistamines, the surprising mix of chemicals detected after a day out at the river

Education in Chemistry

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Ideas

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How to ensure students listen intently

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Tried-and-tested strategies to get your students focused and learning

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Back-pocket solutions

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Be ready to face any classroom challenge with these handy scripted phrases

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How to guarantee student participation and recall

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Use this teacher-tested questioning and rehearsal strategy to ensure fully engaged learners

Exciting demos

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Demonstrate changes of state using volume differences

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Creating a supersaturated gas evolving oscillator

A glass vial with a white lid containing a green liquid that is separating between blue at the top and yellow at the bottom. Other vials of different two-colour liquids are behind.

Demonstrate intermolecular forces with colourful separations

A round glass flask holding blue liquid and a teabag

Brew up interest in redox with this quick reduction

Oxidation states

Demonstrating the chameleon redox reaction with a lollipop

  • Demonstrate changes of state using volume differences

  • Creating a supersaturated gas evolving oscillator

  • Demonstrate intermolecular forces with colourful separations

  • Brew up interest in redox with this quick reduction

  • Demonstrating the chameleon redox reaction with a lollipop

Evidence-based teaching

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Do textbooks need a rewrite?

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Discover why not all chemistry textbooks are created equal

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Linking energy, structure and reactivity

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Discover how students reason about energy and chemical structure – and how to boost their understanding

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What’s best: flipped or in-class learning?

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Discover how one approach can boost student learning and engagement

Opinion

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Facing climate change

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When young people don’t learn about it in school, where do they get their information?

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Why I’ve not retired yet

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Find out why a chemistry teacher is still in the classroom and the rewards they find in teaching

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Levelling up access to science careers

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How collaboration between industry, science organisations and schools can raise learners’ aspirations

How to teach ...

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How to teach post-16 transition metals and complex ions

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Everything you need to teach energetics at 14–16

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How to teach electrochemistry at post-16

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How to teach gases at 14–16

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How to teach quantitative chemistry at post-16

  • How to teach post-16 transition metals and complex ions

  • Everything you need to teach energetics at 14–16

  • How to teach electrochemistry at post-16

  • How to teach gases at 14–16

  • How to teach quantitative chemistry at post-16

News & analysis

People enjoying a sunny day in a river in a valley

Analysing the effects of human leisure

From cocaine to antihistamines, the surprising mix of chemicals detected after a day out at the river

Molecules of sulfur dioxide being broken down by a laser into oxygen and sulfur

From sulfur dioxide to atmospheric oxygen

Early Earth’s oxygen surge could be partly thanks to volcanic sulfur dioxide

Two rollers with sticky tape on spread out a silvery substance in to a fine layer

Graphene fabrication gets rolling

Crafting the carbon allotrope with sticky tape

A plastic bottle with fire

Fanning the flames of the climate crisis

Are we burning up our carbon neutrality goals?

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