All Elements and the periodic table articles
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FeaturePlay card games to teach electronic configuration and ionic compound formation
How a game-based approach can improve your students’ understanding and recognition – and reduce assessment anxiety
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Demystifying scientific symbolic language
Teach your students how to understand and use chemical symbols in their learning
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Opinion
Should we rethink when we teach groups 1, 7 and 0?
Embedding fundamental chemistry skills effectively may require some resequencing
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The chemistry of a meteorite | 11–14 years
Data analysis and graph drawing activity for 11–14 year olds based on the chemical composition of the Dhofar 007 meteorite. Identify elements from chemical formula and differentiate between metal and non-metal elements.
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Meteorite chemistry
What is a meteorite made of? Studying the composition of meteors allows scientists to look back billions of years to before the birth of the solar system
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Chalky spinach
Use this video and experiment in your classroom or set as an activity for students to try out at home to explore why eating raw spinach leaves makes your mouth feel chalky.
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Opinion
Teaching creative chemistry
It’s not just the arts that are creative, chemistry is too. And it’s an essential element in its teaching
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The grand end of term quiz
Looking for something fun to wrap up the term? Challenge your 14–16 students with this chemistry-themed quiz
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Opinion
Should we teach chemistry from primary?
Secondary school teacher Ian Stuart shares the benefits of teaching atomic theory to seven- and eight-year olds
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How to use a visualiser for successful lessons
From zooming in on chemical phenomena to explaining marking schemes, try these teacher-tested approaches
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Properties of metals and non-metals
Challenge the misconception that metals and non-metals are completely opposite in their properties with this activity
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CPD
How to teach non-metals
Showcasing samples and gas tests are imperative when introducing non-metal elements to students
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Learning at home for 11–14
A selection of curriculum-relevant resources and activities to use remotely with your 11–14 classes
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Escape the classroom: advanced challenges for older students
Six more puzzles to challenge and enthuse your students
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Ideas
Why the periodic table is a student’s best friend
How to encourage your pupils to use it as a resource
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Why you should teach the history of the periodic table
Because students familiar with the table’s development and structure make better chemists
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Getting to grips with the periodic table’s structure
Help 11–14 students learn about the table’s development, structure and history
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Determining relative atomic weights
Heat a known mass of two metals to produce their oxides and determine their relative atomic masses.
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