Strategies for six-mark questions
Get your students practising answering these within the time limit
Escape the classroom – again
Six more puzzles to challenge and enthuse your students
Improve executive function skills for all
Develop students’ organisational skills to help them get everyday tasks done efficiently
Which graph when?
Help students understand what data representation to use when
Improve manipulative skills for all
Ensure your students stay safe in practical classes, especially those with difficulties handling equipment
Improve numeracy for all
Help your students improve their numeracy skills with these simple learning aids
Education in Chemistry - Classroom articles
The extraction of metals
Embed the understanding of reduction and oxidation with your students
Why you should teach the history of the periodic table
Because students familiar with the table’s development and structure make better chemists
Measuring energy changes
Get practical with students and arm them with the skills and knowledge they need
Cracking!
Here’s how to crack the cracking of long chain hydrocarbons
Bright sparks
The spontaneous combustion of high surface area iron
The blueprint reaction
Get creative with a photochemical demo
The glow stick reaction
Light up the classroom with this simple, safe and value-for-money demonstration of chemiluminescence
Taking the fear out of time-of-flight calculations
Get the teaching of TOF-MS right and student outcomes will really soar
Why you need A-level chemistry to study pharmacy
Why chemistry is essential to understand and manufacture safe, effective medicines
How to tackle context in exams
Teach students how to apply their knowledge, not parrot back information
Why you need A-level chemistry to study dentistry
Understanding enamel, fillings and anaesthetics requires chemistry knowledge
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Choose chemical representations carefully
How the combination of representations you use impacts your students’ learning
Be forceful with chemical bonding
Help your students understand chemical bonding with force-based models
Enhance explanations of intermolecular forces
How small prompts can result in big leaps in student understanding
Which is best: practical or simulation?
Students interact with practicals and simulations differently, but does one approach come with better learning outcomes?
Animations boost learning
And reduce cognitive load
Metacognitive motivation
How it can positively influence students’ beliefs in their own abilities
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