Popping corn – or nuclear decay?
Try this idea when teaching unstable atoms and radioactivity
6 steps to successful science lab groups
Improve students’ behaviour and teamwork, and see them take pride in their chemistry practicals
How to apply cognitive load theory to chemistry practicals
Ideas from cognitive science that will transform your chemistry classroom practicals
Building effective schemes of work
Use these four tips to focus on what really matters when developing a curriculum
Take a microscale approach to electrochemical cells
How you can use Petri dish galvanic cells to support learning about electricity
How to harness social media to teach the development of the periodic table
Help students understand how scientific ideas are developed by creating social media posts from historic scientists
Teaching curly arrows at post-16
Tips and resources to help you teach chemical processes and organic reaction mechanisms
Teaching redox chemistry post-16
Try these ideas to help make redox less confusing for students
How to teach structure determination post-16
Students find this process puzzling. Help them solve it with these ideas and tips
Demonstrating the heating curve of tert-butanol
Use this to effectively show your students two changes of state in one experiment
The reaction between sodium and chlorine
Use this to demonstrate this classic and spectacular chemistry experiment
Shocking revelations 2: neutralisation reactions
Use this experiment to demonstrate the different behaviours of weak and strong acids
Play card games to teach electronic configuration and ionic compound formation
How a game-based approach can improve your students’ understanding and recognition – and reduce assessment anxiety
Demystifying scientific symbolic language
Teach your students how to understand and use chemical symbols in their learning
Calculating moles and using Avogadro’s number
Use this explainer to help your students grasp the relationship between moles, mass and molecular mass
Risk assessing your chemistry practicals
Keep on top of risk assessments to ensure your practical lessons are safe
Ensure chemistry students get the most out of practical work
Top tips from research to improve understanding and collaboration in practicals
Improve students’ scientific literacy through inquiry
Tips to develop students’ experimental design skills without the need for practical chemistry
Support students to make sense of models
How your subject knowledge and teaching knowledge combine to transform students’ understanding
Tweak your questions to improve students’ problem-solving skills
How changing the format of practice questions can improve learners’ skills
Boost confidence in STEM
Discover how writing tasks can stimulate learning and boost confidence
Mechanistic reasoning in the chemistry classroom
Do teachers need to rethink their explanations depending on their teaching context?
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