All Feature articles – Page 6
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FeatureBrilliant buffers
Use this infographic with your 16–18 students to develop their understanding of pH and buffers
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FeatureHelp students transition from primary to secondary
It’s tough growing into a new identity as a secondary school student. Here’s how teachers can help ease the transformation
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FeatureCamping’s chemical elements
Top tips from the chemistry lab for roughing it well when camping
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FeatureWhy is my chemistry curriculum White?
Decolonising the chemistry curriculums at universities and in schools
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FeatureImprove learning with cognitive science
Cognitive science promises to help us understand the human mind and, crucially for teachers, how it learns. It could improve your day-to-day teaching. Now there’s a thought …
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FeatureIron: fuel of the future?
Investigating whether iron powder could fill the energy gaps left by batteries and renewable energy
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FeatureHow to draw electron configuration diagrams
Use this step-by-step to get your 14–16 students drawing electron configuration diagrams confidently
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FeatureThe challenges of practical work post-16
What are the difficulties students face when they begin to tackle experiments in their last years of secondary school chemistry?
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FeatureThe challenges of multi-course chemistry teaching
Teaching more than one course in a single class is commonplace for many teachers in Scotland and multi-course teaching of chemistry can be particularly complex
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FeatureMeteorite 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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FeatureDesigning cancer drugs
How screening is used to develop targeted therapies that improve the lives of cancer patients
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FeatureScience T-levels are coming
From September 2021, 16–18-year-olds will be able to take a new kind of science qualification
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FeatureEvaporation in action
Boost your 11–14 students’ knowledge and understanding of separation techniques with this poster, fact sheet and practical activity
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FeatureHere comes the summer
We think a lot about what students forget over the summer break, but what about teachers?
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FeatureDon’t worry about summer learning loss
Kristy Turner arms you with the knowledge to understand and mitigate students’ forgetting over the holidays
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FeatureUsing cognitive science for more effective lesson planning
Take advantage of how the mind works and improve learning outcomes
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FeatureHow ice cream is made
For a simple combination of milk, cream, sugar and flavourings, there is a lot of science involved in ice cream manufacture
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FeatureReal-life contexts for thermodynamics
Use this infographic with your 16–18 students and get them working with thermochemistry, intermolecular forces and free energy