Features – Page 6
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Practical science at a distance
Eleanor Crabb discusses the advantages and practicalities of teaching experimental skills online
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Massive Open Online Chemistry
Michael Anderson, Jonathan Agger, Stephen Ashworth, Simon Lancaster and Patrick O’Malley explore the trends in teaching chemistry online
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Getting down to business
Including commercial awareness in undergraduate chemistry courses calls for an interactive teaching approach, says Samantha Pugh
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Bringing molecules into the third dimension
Peter Hoare and Susan Henderson discuss the use of crystal structures to help both school students and early years undergraduates visualise molecules in 3D
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Chemistry in your shopping basket
How can activities based around everyday objects inspire young children to study chemistry? Peter Hoare and Anne Willis explain
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Mastering the art of online teamwork
Claire McDonnell explores the use of wikis to facilitate group collaboration and assessment
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Panels for pupils
Installing solar panels in a school − or at least building your own mock-ups − isn’t as difficult as you might think, finds Josh Howgego
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Forensic students are getting their hands dirty
Practical research projects are vital in the training of the next generation of forensic scientists, explains Matthew Almond
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The trouble with the aufbau principle
Generations of teachers are misleading their charges by teaching a sloppy version of the aufbau principle, claims Eric Scerri
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Flipping lectures and inverting classrooms
Simon Lancaster and David Read examine the current phenomenon that empowers students to take control of their own learning
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Thinking out of the box - skills for work
Elizabeth Page explains how a problem-based learning approach to chemistry module design helps students develop the skills they need for employment
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There's teaching, and there's teaching
Starting university marks a new chapter in a student's life, with a brand new set of opportunities and challenges. But the different teaching style in higher education can prove to be an unexpected shock to the system. Catherine Smith explores what educators on either side can do to ease the transition
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Student-generated assessment
Simon Bates and Ross Galloway tell us how students can use PeerWise to design high quality and effective learning material
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Jump-starting lectures
There is an emerging trend towards using pre-lecture activities to support tertiary level learning: the options investigated
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Unlocking video: 24/7 learning for iPod generation
The capability to produce high quality video is now literally in the palm of your hand. Find out how video can be used to enhance your teaching and support your students' learning.
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Microscale chemistry revisited
Microscale techniques are unlikely to replace our traditional approach to chemistry education, but they do provide an extra dimension to our teaching strategies
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Speeding bullet
In 2014 a small team from the UK will dispatch a car to Africa with the aim of it speeding across the desert at 1000 mph. We find out how chemistry powers the car to success
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The hydrolysis of 2-bromo-2-methylpropane
A one hour experiment to determine the order of the reaction and show that it follows an SN1 mechanism
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Teaching chemistry in 3D using crystal structure data
Fundamental topics such as stereochemistry are taught in 2 or 2.5D - the Cambridge Structural Database provides an interactive 3D solution