Use global conflict to teach the Haber process
How to link the Strait of Hormuz to ammonia production and sustainability in your lessons
Build resilience and independence to master reaction mechanisms
Modelling, scaffolding and worked example problem pairs: a recipe for post-16 success in organic chemistry
Cultivating confidence with bond energy calculations
Use this checklist to help your students move away from misconceptions and calculate energy changes with confidence
Guarantee successful learning with these four approaches
Use this toolkit to inspire, motivate and empower your learners and improve learning outcomes
How to teach physics when you’re a chemist
Top tips from a physics teacher on confidently explaining concepts, maths and patterns
5 tips to help chemists teach biology effectively
Apply your chemistry confidence and strengths – including precision, clarity and respect for evidence – to the biology lab with these teacher-tested suggestions
Education in Chemistry - Classroom articles
Adaptive teaching helps every student thrive
Practical ways to adapt your teaching so all students can access, understand and succeed in science
4 ways to improve learning and understanding
Support meaningful learning in chemistry by incorporating different teaching strategies and help your students make sense of abstract ideas, develop practical skills and connect chemical concepts to the world around them
Teaching reacting masses at 14–16
Tackle this key concept in quantitative chemistry with these teacher-tested tips
Microscale thermite
Use a beaker to contain the mess but keep the magic when demonstrating this impressive redox reaction
Thermite in a flowerpot
Demonstrate a dramatic redox reaction in which highly reactive aluminium displaces iron from iron oxide
Explore the nitrogen oxides: unexpected equilibrium
Volume and temperature affect the equilibrium position of nitrogen dioxide and dinitrogen tetroxide in this counterinituitive equilibria chemistry demo
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
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
How making mistakes in practicals impacts student engagement
Understand how learners respond to and recover from different types of errors in the chemistry lab to improve student outcomes