Improve engagement with cognitive interest cues
Unlock your students’ scientific curiosity with lesson starters that grab their attention
How to build an equilibrium simulation
Deepen your post-16 learners’ understanding of reversible chemical reactions while improving their IT skills
Get particular about particles
Be creative when demonstrating coarse, fine and nanoparticles – make a model
How to write effective multiple choice questions
Quiz your students and improve their understanding with our seven tips for crafting assessment questions and answers
Ways to teach atoms and ions
Use these six approaches to ensure learners master ion formation at 14–16
Scaffold learning with decision trees
Help students unravel complex topics with a decision tree – a visual support you can gradually remove
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Teach electrolysis at 14–16
Encourage learners to be positive about electrolysis
Teaching rates of reaction and collision theory at 14–16
Help students tackle the topic of collision theory head on with these teaching strategies
How to teach aromatic chemistry at post-16
Tips and ideas to enhance your teaching of conjugated pi systems
Boiling without heating
Overcome common misconceptions about changes of state and vaporisation with water, a syringe and reduced pressure
Evaporation, entropy and the Marangoni effect
Demonstrate thermodynamics to your 16–18 learners with this simple experiment
Make water ‘disappear’ with a superabsorbent polymer
Use just sodium polyacrylate, water and table salt to amaze learners and show how chemists modify materials for their purposes
Everything you need to teach the structure of the atom
With this poster and fact sheet, your 14–16 learners will soon know their electrons from their protons
How to teach condensation polymerisation
Everything you need to ensure post-16 learners understand condensation polymers
Flipped learning builds solid foundations
Discover how this approach can boost learners’ understanding and engagement with the first year of post-16 chemistry
Contextualising core practicals
How to use students’ everyday experiences to aid understanding in experiments
Creative exercises to connect concepts in organic chemistry
Learn how to use purposeful prompts to encourage students to make meaningful connections between newly learned and previously covered ideas
How making mistakes in practicals impacts student engagement
Understand how learners respond to and recover from different types of errors in the chemistry lab to improve student outcomes
Use students' drawings to understand their thinking
How to develop your recognition and interpretation skills to better evaluate learners’ chemical representations
How metacognition improves student engagement and outcomes
Two strategies to improve learners’ thinking about thinking when solving chemistry problems
How PhET simulations help students with abstract concepts
Use digital resources to improve students’ chemistry learning outcomes
Celebrate curiosity, creativity and co-operation in your chemistry lessons
They’re key to learners identifying positively with chemistry and achieving success