5 ways to explain titration
From modelling to scaffolding, these tips will help students master this tricky topic
Teaching from two metres
Try these strategies and tools for socially distanced classroom teaching
How to successfully support disengaged learners
An effective three-stage strategy to motivate students as they return to the classroom
Practicals: why you should take them slow
How a step-by-step approach to experiments can improve learning
How to win at classroom behaviour
Avoid sliding standards and encourage students to play nicely
Speed date your way to successful school-industry partnerships
Why you should approach industry outreach in the same way as finding a new partner
How to teach materials at 11–14
Use real life examples to help students get to grips with the properties of ceramics, polymers and composites
How to teach chemical energetics
Exothermic reactions go beyond simply combustion – use these tips to boost student understanding of energy transfer
How to make effective use of pre-recorded lessons
Try this great approach for introducing new content and letting learners rewatch to their heart’s desire
How to approach graphs in chemistry
Help your students turn graphs from pictures into mathematical objects
Improve students’ data handling
Teach pupils how to handle significant figures, decimal places and uncertainty in measurements
Superheated steam
Ready to start a fire with water? Use this demo to teach students about enthalpy and properties of water
When life gives you lemons (or oranges)
Teach your students about volatile organic compounds with these juicy demonstrations
Don’t go breakin’ (down) my (love) heart
Teach chemical change and the thermal stability of carbonates with this simple demonstration using sweets
Raise your students’ aspirations
Try these effective strategies to inspire pupils to pursue STEM subjects and careers
Using gestures in the classroom
Harness the power of hands to supercharge students’ retrieval and problem solving and assess their understanding
How to write questions for formative assessment
It’ll boost your students’ motivation and build their independence
Taking the fear out of time-of-flight calculations
Get the teaching of TOF-MS right and student outcomes will really soar
Students’ writing reveals understanding of electron pushing
Use written assignments to probe student understanding of organic mechanisms
New scaffolding method improves student argumentation
The key to a good argument is flowing SOLO
Concept maps and creative exercises: the dream team?
Two tools are better than one
Learning organic mechanisms – does technology help?
Are chemistry learning applications really worthwhile?
Making effective use of collaborative learning
Get group tasks right and boost student learning
Mastering organic chemistry reactions
Try these tools and tips for teaching electron pushing
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