Conference week 2020

Our conference Supporting chemistry education – beyond lockdown has now finished. If you attended the conference and would like resources from any of the sessions, please get in touch.

To see all our upcoming events, please visit our events page. 

Conference week

Articles from our presenters

A hand take a box of a dozen fresh eggs from a supermarket shelf

Ways to teach the mole at 14–16

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Use these four ideas to effectively teach and contextualise this crucial chemistry unit

The RSC Education publishing editorial board stood up in front of bookshelves in an old library.

Introducing the Education publishing editorial board

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Find out how the different perspectives on the editorial board help develop our articles and resources

An exercise book with three gold stars and a "great work well done" written in red pen

Does rewarding good behaviour deserve a gold star?

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Using commendations to encourage positive behaviour can have an impact beyond the chemistry classroom

A before and after photo showing that the mass (85.5g) of a beaker of water and a watchglass of salt does not change when the salt has been dissolved in the water

4 ways to teach the law of conservation of mass

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Improve 11–14 year-old learners’ understanding of this fundamental chemistry topic

The equipment for a titration including a burette, clamp and clamp stand, a conical flask and white tile, volumetric pipette, pipette filler and dropping bottle

All you need to teach titration effectively

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Help your post-16 learners grasp the titration method with this poster, fact sheet and practical example

A name badge showing people of different ages and genders

What should learners call their teachers?

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Step into a classroom and you’ll often hear Miss, Madam and Sir. But is it time for change?

Four test tubes in a row with metals reacting in a clear liquid increasing in bubbles from left to right

5 ways to teach reactivity of metals at 14–16

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Use the importance of metal extraction to help contextualise this topic

A science teacher using a long splint to light some hydrogen bubbles in a large fireball

Meet the sports-mad chemistry teacher

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Head of chemistry Harry Lord shares what inspires him in the classroom

A shiny new chain and a rusty one

4 ways to teach redox in terms of electrons

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Use these teacher-tested approaches to help learners gain a deeper understanding of redox reactions

One person enters a door on the left door another person leaves a door on the right carrying a box of belongings

Successfully navigating team changes

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Staff change is unavoidable, but there are ways to smooth the transition – including cake

An illustration of a pencil taking notes growing into a tree with graphene in its shadow

5 ways to use structure strips to scaffold learning

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Boost your students’ ability to digest topics and write independently with these margin-sized prompts

A drawing the the equipment needed for a titration including a clamp and stand, burette, white tile, volumetric pipette, burette filler, volumetric flask, funnel, dropping bottle and a wash bottle of distilled water.

Mastering titration apparatus

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Use this poster, fact sheet and classroom activity to show learners the names and uses of equipment they’ll encounter in this practical