An exasperated teacher watches students collect lab equipment incorrectly

Establish good learning behaviours in the science lab

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Education in Chemistry

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Ideas

Progression in improving making a paper aeroplane

Creating a culture of error

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Use these 5 teacher-tested tips to help your students learn (and grow) from their mistakes

Students complete a test in a giant exercise book

7 steps to hassle-free retrieval practice

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How to use this popular technique to assess student understanding, with no planning and minimal fuss

Popcorn popping from kernels

Popping corn – or nuclear decay?

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Try this idea when teaching unstable atoms and radioactivity

Exciting demos

A hand with some burning paper

The production and combustion of nitrocellulose

Chemistry equipment with a data logger, thermometer and a laptop recording an increasing temperature on a graph

Demonstrating the heating curve of tert-butanol

A glass jar with a bright yellow flame and white smoke

The reaction between sodium and chlorine

A titration experiment with a meter in front of a projected v-shaped graph

Shocking revelations 2: neutralisation reactions

An experimental setup with a titration burette, a beaker of milky liquid, electrolysis electrodes and a magnetic stirrer

Shocking revelations: a conductometric titration

  • The production and combustion of nitrocellulose

  • Demonstrating the heating curve of tert-butanol

  • The reaction between sodium and chlorine

  • Shocking revelations 2: neutralisation reactions

  • Shocking revelations: a conductometric titration

Evidence-based teaching

Creating ideas from reading

Boost scientific inquiry skills with strategies for reading and reflection

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Tips to help students effectively design experiments and form researchable questions

People consider the stereoisomers of serine

Improve students’ understanding of stereoisomers with these evidence-based ideas

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Discover three effective methods to help your students understand molecular rotations

Three high school students in a practical chemistry class

Ensure chemistry students get the most out of practical work

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Top tips from research to improve understanding and collaboration in practicals

Opinion

A Dickensian teacher with supportive ghosts teaching a class of modern students

How to support schools in hard times

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The realities of teaching in challenging circumstances, and the truth about the help schools need

People moving from an area of confusing signs to one of definite direction

Backing a new baccalaureate

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Is a broader, combined vocational and academic qualification a good idea?

Scaffolding

Never write another lesson plan template again

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Lesson planning is essential, lesson plan templates are not 

How to teach ...

Copper_sulfate-and-water

Teaching energy and change post-16

Curly arrows

Teaching curly arrows at post-16

People at a concert taking photos on their mobile phones

Teaching redox chemistry post-16

A scientist in a lab working on a computer and NMR machine

How to teach structure determination post-16

People on up and down escalators

Teaching chemistry equilibria post-16

  • Teaching energy and change post-16

  • Teaching curly arrows at post-16

  • Teaching redox chemistry post-16

  • How to teach structure determination post-16

  • Teaching chemistry equilibria post-16

News & analysis

Two firefighters tackling a blaze on an aircraft with water hoses and the fir engine in the background

Composite fibre could protect firefighters from extreme heat

The next-generation aerogel with superior thermal insulation could be used to make heat protective clothing and spacecraft shielding

Transition metals

Transforming the catalytic potential of metals

Designer catalysts are breaking the known rules of reactions

A digital illustration of the Chang'e 5 lunar lander

Lunar soil offers a promising catalyst

The Moon’s surface offers potential for ‘extraterrestrial photosynthesis’ to make oxygen, hydrogen and other fuels

Students working in a lab

Compact reverse osmosis to make potable water

Meet the students who have desiged a cheap and portable desalinating water bottle

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