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Effective strategies for homework success

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Consolidate in-class learning consistently and effectively so your students ace their exams

Education in Chemistry

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Effective strategies for homework success

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Consolidate in-class learning consistently and effectively so your students ace their exams

A school student making a poster showing an experiment and results

Using academic posters to present information

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Help your students learn how to communicate their results effectively

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Exciting demos

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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

Fire exploding from a can

Demonstrating the importance of surface area to rates of reaction

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The production and combustion of nitrocellulose

  • Demonstrate intermolecular forces with colourful separations

  • Brew up interest in redox with this quick reduction

  • Demonstrating the chameleon redox reaction with a lollipop

  • Demonstrating the importance of surface area to rates of reaction

  • The production and combustion of nitrocellulose

Evidence-based teaching

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How to choose the best multimedia resources for your teaching

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Tops tips to help you select videos that reduce cognitive load and boost learning

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Drawing to embed complex chemical concepts

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Discover how drawing diagrams can help boost student understanding

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Developing critical thinking skills

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Use real-world context to help your students adopt a holistic problem-solving approach

Opinion

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Recognition for technicians

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Are we acknowledging their importance in science education?

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Why we should take a global view of education research

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Kristy Turner spotlights unconscious bias in education research and encourages everyone to look beyond the obvious sources

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AI bots can do your students’ homework

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How to teach ...

Four glass beakers holding different volumes of different metals

How to teach moles at post-16

A diagram showing the hydrogen bond between two water molecules

How to teach intermolecular forces at 14–16

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Teaching spectroscopic techniques at post-16

A diagram showing the bonds in an ionic compound

How to teach ionic bonding at 14–16

A mix of coloured glass marbles

How to teach entropy at post-16

  • How to teach moles at post-16

  • How to teach intermolecular forces at 14–16

  • Teaching spectroscopic techniques at post-16

  • How to teach ionic bonding at 14–16

  • How to teach entropy at post-16

News & analysis

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Using seawater to reduce our carbon footprint

Ocean carbon capture system offers a new way to tackle rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels

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Nickel-loving plants help to recycle poly(ethene)

Phytomining is helping to recycle single-use plastics 

A herd of sheep in a rural road in India with traffic building up behind them

Nitrogen dioxide is a pollution problem in rural areas

Rural areas aren’t safe from pollution as study finds they contain 41% of the country’s total nitrogen dioxide

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Preventing condensation with nanotechnology

The sunlight-activated nanofilm putting an end to misty glasses and windows

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