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

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Five reasons you should use structure strips

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Explore the reasons for incorporating structure strips in the chemistry classroom, including to build students’ confidence and scaffold writing structure

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RSC publishes Kickstart your science teaching career

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Discover this curated collection of articles offering support to new science teachers

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5 ways to teach gas tests

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Kristy Turner shares approaches to secure your 11–14 and 14–16 learners’ knowledge and build confidence

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How are our curriculums changing?

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Change is happening across the UK and Ireland, and the RSC Education team are ensuring the science curriculums improve for everyone

A series of chemical equations as the number of atoms are balanced on each side for carbon plus oxygen creates carbon monoxide

How to balance chemical equations

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Simple steps to success, confidence and fluency with balancing equations for 14–16 learners

A schematic style cartoon of a human head leaves the overwhelming complexity of chemistry behind to find peace with mountains, a lake and friends.

Look after your well-being as a new science teacher

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Teaching science is hard work, particularly in the first few years. The good news is, being an excellent teacher and looking after yourself aren’t mutually exclusive

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Celebrating Keith Taber’s contribution to chemistry education

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A giant of chemistry education and research, Keith Taber has died. Read tributes from colleagues at the RSC and beyond

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Guaranteed success for international trainees and your school

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How helping them settle in can build their confidence and strengthen your science department

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4 ways to teach organic compounds at 14–16

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Use these teacher-tested ideas to compound learners’ knowledge of carbon atoms

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Do I have a chemistry identity?

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Nurture identity and confidence in class and help students see chemistry as theirs

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Capture learners’ attention with video feedback

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Record a video mark scheme for exams and watch your learners’ engagement with feedback soar