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 from a biology teacher for teaching out of your specialism effectively
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
How to support learners with graph drawing
Explore classroom strategies that help learners avoid common graphing mistakes and present data with confidence
Mastering IR spectroscopy with hands-on models
How a simple spring and trolly set-up helps post-16 learners grasp the underlying theory
Meet your new favourite assessment method: the ConcepTest
Boost understanding of the change in mass when burning magnesium with this approach to instant feedback
Education in Chemistry - Classroom articles
The recipe for planning success
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
The other side of the two-faced reaction
Paint blue images into a colourless solution to demonstrate UV light energy overcoming a kinetic barrier in a redox reaction
Shed new light on the two-faced reaction
Use methylene blue to give the classic photochemical 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
More sustainable, more accessible, just as effective
Use these microscale experiments tried-and-tested by teachers and technicians from across the UK
Five reasons you should use structure strips
Explore the reasons for incorporating structure strips in the chemistry classroom, including to build students’ confidence and scaffold writing structure
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?