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Teaching the rock cycle
Cement your younger students’ understanding of how rocks are formed with this poster and game
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Moving from fossil fuels to renewable energy
Recent steep price increases could push us towards renewable energy
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What are you swimming in?
Swimming pool disinfection is essential for public health but carries some risks of its own
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Phytomining: how to mine a tree
Useful metals can be extracted from contaminated soil using plants
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Toiletries and cosmetics: what’s on the label?
What do all those terms on the ingredients list mean?
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Ocean acidification
How scientists are fighting the serious risk atmospheric carbon dioxide poses to our seas – and the planet
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What’s behind the CO₂ shortage?
Dependence on a single source of production left us with a deficit
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Brilliant buffers
Use this infographic with your 16–18 students to develop their understanding of pH and buffers
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Camping’s chemical elements
Top tips from the chemistry lab for roughing it well when camping
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Iron: fuel of the future?
Investigating whether iron powder could fill the energy gaps left by batteries and renewable energy
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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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Designing cancer drugs
How screening is used to develop targeted therapies that improve the lives of cancer patients
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Evaporation 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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How 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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Real-life contexts for thermodynamics
Use this infographic with your 16–18 students and get them working with thermochemistry, intermolecular forces and free energy