Use ideas from this issue

Practicals, protection and professional development

• Discover how CPD and microscale can improve early career and trainee teachers’ practical skills and confidence
• Use these four strategies to ensure all 11–16 learners understand salt-forming experiments
• Put core practicals into context with everyday experiences and experiments that will get 14–16 students thinking
• Know which eye protection to wear when, and how to adapt a practical to keep you and your learners safe in the school lab
• Demonstrate thermodynamics to your 16–18 students with this simple entropy and evaporation experiment. Watch the video and download the technician notes for tips and health and safety information

In your classroom

• Discover our new literacy resources and how to use Frayer models to assess science capital
• Read about the Draw a scientist test and use it to challenge preconceptions about what scientists look like
• Make your classroom a space where students view mistakes as a valuable part of the learning process
• Explore how other teachers are using generative artificial intelligence for admin, MCQs and more …