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Ideas for your classroom

• Demonstrate electrochemistry with a one-beaker voltaic cell and sequence the seven best practicals to teach the topic from 11 to 18
• Get to the burning issues of climate change, acid rain and smog with this poster, fact sheet and activity for 11–14 learners
• Help your students overcome maths anxiety, use the GUESS acronym and follow this advice for effective 14–16 lessons on the mole
• Encourage learners to explore PhET simulations to improve understanding of abstract concepts
• Explore cis-trans  isomerism with this post-16 CPD article and resource

Want more?

• Grab a slice of the latest Everyday chemistry on what makes cheese stringy
• Find out why two teachers think detentions do and don’t work. Who do you agree with?
• Meet the … first technician in our series, Andrew Symonds, and what comical experiment clean-up he recommends