How to teach physics when you’re a chemist
Top tips from a physics teacher on confidently explaining concepts, maths and patterns
Five tips to help chemists teach biology effectively
Apply your chemistry confidence and strengths – including precision, clarity and respect for evidence – to the biology lab with these teacher-tested suggestions
5 ways to teach gas tests
Kristy Turner shares approaches to secure your 11–14 and 14–16 learners’ knowledge and build confidence
Open the door to learning with hinge point questions
Take these three opportunities every lesson
How to pitch at the right level
Take the whole class with you every time with these useful tips
Give science lessons a real-life context
Keep your learner’s curiosity burning by relating your topic to current issues and everyday life with these five approaches
Education in Chemistry - Classroom articles
Four ways to improve learning and understanding
Support meaningful learning in chemistry by incorporating different teaching strategies and help your students make sense of abstract ideas, develop practical skills and connect chemical concepts to the world around them
Teaching reacting masses at 14–16
Tackle this key concept in quantitative chemistry with these teacher-tested tips
How to break through the numeracy barrier
Maths anxiety hinders chemistry learning, so give struggling students the best possible chance of success with these useful tips
Microscale thermite
Use a beaker to contain the mess but keep the magic when demonstrating this impressive redox reaction
Thermite in a flowerpot
Demonstrate a dramatic redox reaction in which highly reactive aluminium displaces iron from iron oxide
Explore the nitrogen oxides: unexpected equilibrium
Volume and temperature affect the equilibrium position of nitrogen dioxide and dinitrogen tetroxide in this counterinituitive equilibria chemistry demo
How to balance chemical equations
Simple steps to success, confidence and fluency with balancing equations for 14–16 learners
How to teach filtration, evaporation and crystallisation at 11–14
Show your learners the essentials of separation techniques with this poster and fact sheet
Be an inclusive science teacher with these research-informed tips
Making chemistry lessons and practicals more accessible for learners with additional support needs will benefit everyone in your class
What is the best revision technique?
There’s not just one. Use these evidence-based strategies to set your students up for science exam success
Enhance learning with teacher-led explanations
Plan high-quality explanations ahead of time to develop your learners’ understanding of chemistry
Master organic mechanisms with an arrows-first approach
Use an arrows-first approach to mechanistic organic chemistry to deepen your post-16 learners’ understanding and improve their assessment outcomes
Integrating scaffolding and metacognition into titrations
Can a flipped-practical approach encourage thinking and self-reflection?
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