Ideas for your classroom and teaching from our January 2026 issue
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Revision season
- Revise the best revision strategies, and when it’s most effective to use them, to lead learners to exam success
- Marking exams? Try making a video commentary mark scheme, to encourage learners to engage with feedback and get the most out of assessments
- Help students embed and recall key chemistry content, and save paper, with reusable sheets for retrieval practice
- Boost your learners’ understanding and recall by teaching them to construct complex sentences
Look and learn
- Demonstrate Avogadro’s law and a counterintuitive example of equilibrium – perfect for teaching nitrogen oxides at ages 14–16 and post-16
- Sharpen your students’ eyes and practical skills for making observations and monitoring reactions
- Weave storytelling into practical demonstrations, to create wow moments that keep learners interested long after class is over
- Show your learners key practical processes, with a simple distillation poster for 14–16s and a filtration, evaporation and crystallisation poster for 11–14s
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