All Food articles
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Feature
Alternatives to agrochemicals
Find out how developments in pest control will secure future food production
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Resource
Pesticides and agricultural productivity calculations | 14–16 years
Link food security to yield, percentage yield and atom economy
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Feature
What links chemistry, cakes and colour?
Discover how regulations spoil the look of our sweet treats – and the chemistry behind it all
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Project
Analysing the chemistry of food | Chemistry for All project | 14–16 years
Analyse food and drink samples using TLC, titration and visible absorption spectroscopy with this engaging project
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Resource
Investigating the sugar content and pH of fizzy drinks | 11–14 years
Compare fizzy drinks’ ingredients, acidities and health implications
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Resource
Salt (for cooking) activities | 11–14 years
Uncover the properties and health implications of salt in our diets
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Resource
Baking investigation | 11–14 years
Discover the purpose of each ingredient and test methods used to make cupcakes
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Resource
Custard experiment | 11–14 years
Introduce your learners to Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids as well as the explosive nature of powders
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Resource
Extracting DNA experiment | 11–14 years
Remove and compare genetic material in different plant cells
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Article
Butter and margarine: what’s the difference?
Discover the chemistry and history of these so similar, but very different solidified emulsions
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Resource
Hanukkah doughnuts: interpret practical instructions | 11–14 years
Worksheet on interpreting practical methods using a recipe format, a scientific method and integrated instructions
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Job profile
Scientist, Incident Management & Crisis Resolution
Hilde investigates consumer complaints for beverage company, Coca-Cola
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Resource
Plant-based proteins | 16-18 years
Name common amino acids and draw the structural formulas of dipeptides and tripeptides in this resource for 16-18 year old learners before considering how thin layer chromatography can be used to separate and analyse amino acids in a mixture.
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News
What’s carbon dioxide got to do with it?
Examining the role that CO₂ plays in the supermarket’s empty shelves
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Feature
Camping’s chemical elements
Top tips from the chemistry lab for roughing it well when camping
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Ideas
Tackle poverty in chemistry lessons
Link the science you teach in your classroom to poverty and inequality targeted by the UN’s SDGs
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Ideas
Link global food security to your lessons on fertilisers
Use these resources and activities to link UN sustainable development goal 2 to your practical lessons on rates of reaction and the use of fertilisers
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CPD
Teaching rates of reaction post-16
Ideas and activities to help students explore reaction dynamics and mechanisms