5 tips to make the most of mocks
How to ensure students do better in the real thing
10 effective questioning techniques
A fresh look at how to manage pupils’ responses to questions
Curb colleague conflict
What should a head of department do when conflict flares between colleagues?
Confronting fears in the lab
Practical work can scare pupils. Here’s how to overcome their worries
Encourage your students to research
How independent research projects will benefit you and your students
Strategies for six-mark questions
Get your students practising answering these within the time limit
Displacement reactions
Activities, tips and ideas to help students get to grips with the reactivity series
The extraction of metals
Embed the understanding of reduction and oxidation with your students
Why you should teach the history of the periodic table
Because students familiar with the table’s development and structure make better chemists
Avogadro in action
Hydrogenating an alkene without the need for heating
Cracking!
Here’s how to crack the cracking of long chain hydrocarbons
Bright sparks
The spontaneous combustion of high surface area iron
The blueprint reaction
Get creative with a photochemical demo
Grounded: Keeping the carbon beneath our feet
Can soil help address climate change?
Taking the fear out of time-of-flight calculations
Get the teaching of TOF-MS right and student outcomes will really soar
Why you need A-level chemistry to study pharmacy
Why chemistry is essential to understand and manufacture safe, effective medicines
How to tackle context in exams
Teach students how to apply their knowledge, not parrot back information
Students’ struggle with multiple representations
How important is it for students to be able to move between chemical representations to grasp fundamental chemical concepts and phenomena?
Philosophical discussion promotes confidence in the classroom
How encouraging students to engage in philosophical dialogue can yield surprising results
Choose chemical representations carefully
How the combination of representations you use impacts your students’ learning
Be forceful with chemical bonding
Help your students understand chemical bonding with force-based models
Enhance explanations of intermolecular forces
How small prompts can result in big leaps in student understanding
Which is best: practical or simulation?
Students interact with practicals and simulations differently, but does one approach come with better learning outcomes?
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