Mastering IR spectroscopy with hands-on models
How a simple spring and trolly set-up helps post-16 learners grasp the underlying theory
Bring and brag CPD
A simple premise with a big impact – how can a little bragging benefit learners and develop your teaching practice?
Meet your new favourite assessment method: the ConcepTest
Boost understanding of the change in mass when burning magnesium with this approach to instant feedback
How to boost understanding, literacy and confidence with science vocabulary
Help learners with tricky terms with this flexible, high impact, low prep approach
Build professional development into your week with a simple spreadsheet
Take a snapshot of your teaching week-by-week in spreadsheets and make self-reflection a habit to boost your practice
Pinpoint and fix misconceptions
Effectively identify and fix the root of student errors without reteaching the entire topic using this four-step approach as part of concept repair
Education in Chemistry - Classroom articles
Bring and brag CPD
A simple premise with a big impact – how can a little bragging benefit learners and develop your teaching practice?
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
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 balance chemical equations
Simple steps to success, confidence and fluency with balancing equations for 14–16 learners
Investigate commercial production of aspirin
Link a practical your post-16s are familiar with to real-world chemistry
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
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
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?
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