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How to teach moles at post-16

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What’s in a mole? Use this explainer to help students overcome misconceptions of this fundamental quantity

Education in Chemistry

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Ideas

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Successful students evaluate every step

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Train your learners to get the best marks

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7 steps to successful revision strategies

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How to model effective exam cramming habits with your students

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Improve learners’ confidence with numbers

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Engage your students with data and boost their maths skills in the science classroom

Exciting demos

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Brew up interest in redox with this quick reduction

Oxidation states

Demonstrating the chameleon redox reaction with a lollipop

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Demonstrating the importance of surface area to rates of reaction

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The production and combustion of nitrocellulose

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Demonstrating the heating curve of tert-butanol

  • 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

  • Demonstrating the heating curve of tert-butanol

Evidence-based teaching

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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

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Making sense of graphs

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Help your students successfully interpret data

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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AI is readily available and willing to write about chemistry for your learners. The question is whether it’s a bad idea

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

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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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Nickel-loving plants help to recycle poly(ethene)

Recycling single-use plastics using nickel extracted from phytomining 

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Nitrogen dioxide is a pollution problem in rural India

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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Creating green energy from seawater

Scientists combine desalination and electrolysis to produce clean hydrogen fuel 

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