Should scientists do that?
Embed the ethics of science into your teaching of knowledge, concepts and practicals, and avoid introducing Jurassic Park into your lab
Add proportional reasoning to your chemistry lessons
Follow this step-by-step guide to using ratio tables to deepen all of your learners’ conceptual and mathematical understanding
How to teach graph skills in science lessons
Translate graph skills into a science context with these teacher-tested tips
How to teach forces when you’re a chemistry teacher
Tips to cut out common misconceptions, strengthen learner understanding and confidently teach this fundamental physics topic
Use your chemistry strengths to teach biology brilliantly
Advice to help chemistry specialists zoom into scale and language to secure learners’ understanding and knowledge of biology
Secure student success writing titration methods
Three lessons to help your students concentrate on the details and secure full marks when writing a titraton method
Education in Chemistry - Classroom articles
Lesson planning: questions, objectives and misconceptions
Discover lesson-planning strategies to inspire and engage all your students while monitoring achievements and meeting learning aims
How to measure rates and interpret graphs
Move beyond engaging demonstrations and build learners’ confidence in interpreting rates of reaction graphs
Adaptive teaching helps every student thrive
Practical ways to adapt your teaching so all students can access, understand and succeed in science
Show thermodynamics and kinetics at play in this redox reaction
Use methylene blue to demonstrate UV light energy overcoming a kinetic barrier with this variation on the two-faced reaction
A new twist on a classic photochemical demo
Replace thionine with methylene blue to give the two-faced redox demonstration a modern makeover
Microscale thermite
Use a beaker to contain the mess but keep the magic when demonstrating this impressive redox reaction
How to carry out flame tests
Build understanding of flame tests among your 14–16 chemistry students
Conservation of mass: reacting magnesium and oxygen
Ensure your 11–14 learners understand this important concept with this poster and fact sheet
How to help students connect maths and chemistry
Four simple steps to connect mathematical skills with chemistry
Happy, positive and high attaining
Advice and resources to encourage all learners to reach their potential and to think more, while maintaining their mental health
Four ways teachers use AI to plan lessons
Learn how experienced teachers use generative AI tools to refine ideas, challenge assumptions and strengthen their lessons
Make peer feedback effective in your science classroom
How to turn students into thinking partners who give useful, actionable insight
What GenAI can, and can’t, do for chemistry learning
Use AI to support your teaching but remain aware of limitations
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?