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Ideas

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Successfully embed retrieval practice into your classroom

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Reusable question sheets improve student recall of key chemistry content

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Ideas to inspire confident contributions to group talk

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Include every learner in the chemistry conversation with these four valuable tools

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5 ways to teach neutralisation and pH

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Teacher-tested approaches to build 11–14 students’ basic understanding of acids, alkalis and indicators

Exciting demos

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Forming a cloud in a bottle

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Boiling without heating

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Evaporation, entropy and the Marangoni effect

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Make water ‘disappear’ with a superabsorbent polymer

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Demonstrate electrochemistry with a gravity cell

  • Forming a cloud in a bottle

  • Boiling without heating

  • Evaporation, entropy and the Marangoni effect

  • Make water ‘disappear’ with a superabsorbent polymer

  • Demonstrate electrochemistry with a gravity cell

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Evidence-based teaching

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Integrating scaffolding and metacognition into titrations

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Can a flipped-practical approach encourage thinking and self-reflection?

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Creative exercises to connect concepts in organic chemistry

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Learn how to use purposeful prompts to encourage students to make meaningful connections between newly learned and previously covered ideas

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How making mistakes in practicals impacts student engagement

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Understand how learners respond to and recover from different types of errors in the chemistry lab to improve student outcomes

Opinion

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Reduce your workload by using spreadsheets effectively

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Save time on teacher tasks and boost your productivity by upskilling in Excel

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Why are fewer students entering GCSE chemistry?

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And will this lead to fewer specialist science teachers?

How to teach ...

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Teach electrolysis at 14–16

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Teaching rates of reaction and collision theory at 14–16

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How to teach aromatic chemistry at post-16

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How to teach solubility at 14–16

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Teaching atom economy, percentage yield and green chemistry post-16

  • Teach electrolysis at 14–16

  • Teaching rates of reaction and collision theory at 14–16

  • How to teach aromatic chemistry at post-16

  • How to teach solubility at 14–16

  • Teaching atom economy, percentage yield and green chemistry post-16

News & analysis

A rubber duck stuck to a rock with waves pounding it

New underwater adhesive glues rubber duck to rock on the seashore

Use protein-inspired glues to teach polymers in context

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Scientists create liquid carbon on Earth for the first time

Researchers reveal breakthrough information about carbon’s most mysterious form using an ultra-powerful laser

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Reversing our reliance on fractional distillation of crude oil

Scientists use semi-permeable polymer membrane and reverse osmosis to separate mixtures of hydrocarbons and save energy

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Volcanic ash cloud turned brain to glass

Explore changes of state with this real-life horrible history

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