Help students understand scientific vocabulary
Help your students with these solutions for murky science language
How to sequence and segment your teaching of ionic equations
Use this ionic compounds worksheet to sequence and segment your teaching effectively
Escape the classroom: and reveal the properties of materials
Escape room puzzles to introduce students to materials properties
Secure students’ understanding of scientific vocabulary
Banish misconceptions and build a foundation of understanding for science terminology with the Frayer model template
5 practical ideas for using Johnstone’s triangle
How to help your students link conceptual levels
How to find good teaching resources
Get the high-quality teaching resources you need, both online and off
Displacement reactions
Activities, tips and ideas to help students get to grips with the reactivity series
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
Working with standard form
How your students can master standard form to help them solve chemistry problems
Working with ratio
Help your students transfer their maths knowledge to chemistry
Fire stopper
Teach the extinguishing properties and density of CO₂ safely
Avogadro in action
Hydrogenating an alkene without the need for heating
Cracking!
Here’s how to crack the cracking of long chain hydrocarbons
Grounded: Keeping the carbon beneath our feet
Can soil help address climate change?
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
Research points the way to help teach Maxwell—Boltzmann distributions
How to avoid faulty knowledge application by students when teaching distributions of states
Students’ struggle with multiple representations
How important is it for students to be able to move between chemical representations to grasp fundamental chemical concepts and phenomena?
Philosophical discussion promotes confidence in the classroom
How encouraging students to engage in philosophical dialogue can yield surprising results
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
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