Use ideas from this issue

Practical pointers

• Use these 10 research-informed ideas to maximise students’ outcomes from practicals
• Dissolve coloured sweets in this colourful experiment to demonstrate diffusion, density and the particle model to your 14–16 classes
• Perfect for post-16 learners, download this poster and resources to improve titration skills  and this lesson plan and experiment on enthalpy cycles

Ideas for your classroom

• Provide context to precious metals with our latest Everyday chemistry article, as well as a summary slide and story on the asteroid linked to the dinosaur’s extinction  
• Put these evidence-based teaching tips into action to help students understand atomic theory and to foster a wider diversity in science
• Boost your 14–16 learners’ knowledge by linking topics and with these five ways to teach reactivity of metals
• Help your students get to grips with the allotropes of carbon using this structure and bonding article