Ways to teach atoms and ions
Use these six tips to ensure learners master ion formation at 14–16
Scaffold learning with decision trees
Help students unravel complex topics with a decision tree – a visual support you can gradually remove
Frayer models offer a window into students’ science capital
Use the literacy framework to explore, break down, explain and consolidate chemistry concepts
Ways to teach formation of salts
Secure your learners’ understanding of this core topic with teacher-tested recall strategies and experiments
Sharing science stories to inspire and engage
Pick a tale of a chemistry discovery (or disagreement!) to tell your students from these examples, complete with teaching tips
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Teaching rates of reaction and collision theory at 14–16
Help students tackle the topic of collision theory head on with these teaching strategies
How to teach aromatic chemistry at post-16
Tips and ideas to enhance your teaching of conjugated pi systems
How to teach solubility at 14–16
Concentrate learners’ minds on the key aspects of solutions
Evaporation, entropy and the Marangoni effect
Demonstrate thermodynamics to your 16–18 learners with this simple experiment
Make water ‘disappear’ with a superabsorbent polymer
Use just sodium polyacrylate, water and table salt to amaze learners and show how chemists modify materials for their purposes
Demonstrate electrochemistry with a gravity cell
Video, kit list and teaching tips to set up a one-beaker copper–zinc voltaic cell to explore redox reactions
Everything you need to teach the structure of the atom
With this poster and fact sheet, your 14–16 learners will soon know their electrons from their protons
How to teach condensation polymerisation
Everything you need to ensure post-16 learners understand condensation polymers
Contextualising core practicals
How to use students’ everyday experiences to aid understanding in experiments
Research-informed tips for using dialogic teaching
Use extended periods of talk between students to improve the quality of their responses in chemistry
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 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
How metacognition improves student engagement and outcomes
Two strategies to improve learners’ thinking about thinking when solving chemistry problems
How PhET simulations help students with abstract concepts
Use digital resources to improve students’ chemistry learning outcomes
Celebrate curiosity, creativity and co-operation in your chemistry lessons
They’re key to learners identifying positively with chemistry and achieving success