How to ensure students listen intently
Tried-and-tested strategies to get your students focused and learning
Back-pocket solutions
Be ready to face any classroom challenge with these handy scripted phrases
How to guarantee student participation and recall
Use this teacher-tested questioning and rehearsal strategy to ensure fully engaged learners
Improve students’ recall with stories
Engage learners with science through stories – and improve their recall
5 ways to teach displacement reactions effectively
Spark students’ enthusiasm for this key chemistry topic with these teacher-tested strategies
Boost younger students’ grasp of atomic structure
How to go beyond the simplistic when teaching this topic at 11–14, to help students achieve success at 14–16
How to teach post-16 transition metals and complex ions
Everything you need to help your students master transition metal complexes
Everything you need to teach energetics at 14–16
Use these ideas to help students understand the world of energetics, enthalpy and equilibrium
How to teach electrochemistry at post-16
Use these tips to help your students calculate redox reactions and create electrochemical cells
Demonstrate changes of state using volume differences
Use this demonstration to reinforce the differences between states of matter with your 11–14 learners
Creating a supersaturated gas evolving oscillator
Use this fizzy practical for a kinetic and thermodynamic showdown in class
Demonstrate intermolecular forces with colourful separations
Layer intermolecular interactions into your practical lessons with these chromatic experiments
Successful strategies for sequencing knowledge
Discover how to effectively develop your students’ knowledge and skills by sequencing practical activities
Teaching the bonding spectrum
Everything you need to help your post-16 grasp the realities of bonding, electronegativity and intermolecular forces
Why it’s important to encourage student decision-making in practicals
Improve student engagement, motivation and behaviour by giving them more choice
How to teach metallic bonding
From properties to structures, everything you need to help your 14–16 students grasp metals and alloys
Do textbooks need a rewrite?
Discover why not all chemistry textbooks are created equal
Linking energy, structure and reactivity
Discover how students reason about energy and chemical structure – and how to boost their understanding
What’s best: flipped or in-class learning?
Discover how one approach can boost student learning and engagement
Boost student understanding of chemical bonding
Discover how important pedagogical content knowledge is in teaching this challenging topic
Conceptual peer-to-peer questioning improves learning
Get the cogs turning for successful learning by encouraging the right kind of student interactions
How to help students identify electrophiles and nucleophiles
Use evidence-based research and teaching tips to solidify understanding of reaction mechanisms
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