Ideas for your classroom and teaching from our September 2025 issue
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Prepare for the start of the year
- From the first day in the school science lab, teach your students about health, safety and risk with the first update in our Teaching practical science series
- Read about this flipped learning approach at post-16 and download the workbooks on the fundamentals of chemistry
- Use these six approaches to ensure your students are positive they understand atoms and ions
- Spruce up your lab with the States of matter poster to teach your 11–14 year-old learners all about solids, liquids and gases and another, coming soon, for post-16 learners on the Commercial applications of chromatography
- Discover resources, how to avoid common misconceptions and more for teaching electrolysis at 14–16
Research-informed reading
- Watch the Exhibition chemistry videos on Boiling without heating and Forming a cloud in a bottle. Then download the technician notes and demonstrate
- Create connections between organic chemistry concepts in your class with these teaching tips
- Download this Science research news story and summary slide to provide context when teaching fractional distillation of hydrocarbons to your 14–16 learners
- Learn why oracy is vital to making science more inclusive and get talking in post-16 lessons on mechanisms
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