Use ideas from this issue

Get support with remote teaching

• Keep your students learning with these curriculum-relevant resources and activities to use while schools are shut for 11–14, 14–16 and 16–18, and for practical chemistry
• Useful tips on how to continue giving valuable and effective feedback remotely
• Advice on designing and using powerful multiple-choice quizzes to assess understanding remotely, including a link to one we made earlier on structure and bonding
• Ensure your communication stays efficient with parents, students and colleagues

Teach your students about viruses

• Learn about the chemistry of viruses on surfaces (including a worksheet for 14–16 and 16–18) and meet an inspirational chemist working on creating antiviral surfaces
• Resources on the science of handwashing, soap and hand sanitiser to share with your students

Keep up your CPD

• A simple demonstration for teaching chemical change and the thermal stability of carbonates. All you need is some sweets and some ethanol!
• Banish students’ misconceptions about the properties of non-metals
• Tackle troublesome approaches to algebraic equations
• Tips (and a free online resource) to boost pupils’ understanding of organic mechanisms, electron pushing and curly arrows
• Help students master scientific vocabulary using the Frayer model and by simply decoding words
• How to sequence and segement the topic of ionic equations to boost learning, with an accompanying worksheet