Creating a culture of error
Use these 5 teacher-tested tips to help your students learn (and grow) from their mistakes
7 steps to hassle-free retrieval practice
How to use this popular technique to assess student understanding, with no planning and minimal fuss
Popping corn – or nuclear decay?
Try this idea when teaching unstable atoms and radioactivity
6 steps to successful science lab groups
Improve students’ behaviour and teamwork, and see them take pride in their chemistry practicals
How to apply cognitive load theory to chemistry practicals
Ideas from cognitive science that will transform your chemistry classroom practicals
Building effective schemes of work
Use these four tips to focus on what really matters when developing a curriculum
Teaching energy and change post-16
Try these ideas to help students better understand this scientific concept
Teaching curly arrows at post-16
Tips and resources to help you teach chemical processes and organic reaction mechanisms
Teaching redox chemistry post-16
Try these ideas to help make redox less confusing for students
The production and combustion of nitrocellulose
Get your students engaged in a flash with this impressive demo
Demonstrating the heating curve of tert-butanol
Use this to effectively show your students two changes of state in one experiment
The reaction between sodium and chlorine
Use this to demonstrate this classic and spectacular chemistry experiment
Establish good learning behaviours in the science lab
Discover how to move from reactive to proactive behaviour management
How knowing your pupils will improve outcomes
Try these ideas to build relationships and manage behaviour effectively
Play card games to teach electronic configuration and ionic compound formation
How a game-based approach can improve your students’ understanding and recognition – and reduce assessment anxiety
Demystifying scientific symbolic language
Teach your students how to understand and use chemical symbols in their learning
Boost scientific inquiry skills with strategies for reading and reflection
Tips to help students effectively design experiments and form researchable questions
Improve students’ understanding of stereoisomers with these evidence-based ideas
Discover three effective methods to help your students understand molecular rotations
Ensure chemistry students get the most out of practical work
Top tips from research to improve understanding and collaboration in practicals
Improve students’ scientific literacy through inquiry
Tips to develop students’ experimental design skills without the need for practical chemistry
Support students to make sense of models
How your subject knowledge and teaching knowledge combine to transform students’ understanding
Tweak your questions to improve students’ problem-solving skills
How changing the format of practice questions can improve learners’ skills
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