5 ways to explain electrolysis
From building good foundations to memorising the rules, these tips will help your students grasp this tricky topic
How to use a visualiser for successful lessons
From zooming in on chemical phenomena to explaining marking schemes, try these teacher-tested approaches
How to use hinge point questions effectively
They can help both you and your students learn – but what are hinge questions, and when should you ask them?
Holiday in the time of Covid-19
How to use the long summer break to prepare for the new challenges of the next academic year
Trainee teachers: how to prepare for next year
How to continue your ITT during the coronavirus crisis
6 ways to motivate students while teaching remotely
Ideas to keep pupils motivated and engaged while learning remotely
How to make effective use of pre-recorded lessons
Try this great approach for introducing new content and letting learners rewatch to their heart’s desire
Using investigations to engage your 11–14 students
Try this proven approach to remote teaching with your science classes
Use on-screen simulations to successfully boost data skills
Perfect for remote teaching, but they’ve a role in classroom settings too
Improve students’ data handling
Teach pupils how to handle significant figures, decimal places and uncertainty in measurements
A better approach to algebra
Get students to leave behind troublesome techniques when solving algebraic equations
When life gives you lemons (or oranges)
Teach your students about volatile organic compounds with these juicy demonstrations
Don’t go breakin’ (down) my (love) heart
Teach chemical change and the thermal stability of carbonates with this simple demonstration using sweets
Fire stopper
Teach the extinguishing properties and density of CO₂ safely
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
Why you need A-level chemistry to study dentistry
Understanding enamel, fillings and anaesthetics requires chemistry knowledge
Learning organic mechanisms – does technology help?
Are chemistry learning applications really worthwhile?
Making effective use of collaborative learning
Get group tasks right and boost student learning
Mastering organic chemistry reactions
Try these tools and tips for teaching electron pushing
Research points the way to help teach Maxwell—Boltzmann distributions
How to avoid faulty knowledge application by students when teaching distributions of states
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
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