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FeatureThe real prize of entering STEM competitions
Both you and your students can gain a lot from participating in science competitions besides winning
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Escape the classroom: and explore colour change reactions
In this escape room article, students explore colour change reactions to reveal hidden codes
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Making effective use of collaborative learning
Get group tasks right and boost student learning
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Human activity and climate change
Develop students’ speaking and listening skills with this debate activity
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Escape the classroom: advanced challenges for older students
Six more puzzles to challenge and enthuse your students
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Exothermic/endothermic reactions
This Concept Cartoon is designed to provoke discussion and stimulate thinking around exothermic and endothermic reactions. Use it with groups of students to elicit students’ ideas.
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Brady's test for aldehydes and ketones
Explore the identification of aldehydes and ketones with 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine (Brady’s reagent)
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The chemical properties of hydroxybenzene
Observe and interpret some of the chemical reactions of hydroxybenzene (phenol) inside a plastic petri dish
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Should beans be cooked with the lid on or off?
An investigation into whether having the lid on or off affects the colour of green vegetables.
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What affects the colour and texture of cooked vegetables?
Practical work and questions about the effect of salt, sodium bicarbonate and calcium ions on the colour and texture of cooked vegetables.
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By how much does salt increase the boiling point of water?
This resource explores why salt is always added to the water when cooking.
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Is all salt the same?
This resource looks at types of salt and the differences between them.
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Use of salt in cooking, part 1
In this activity students devise and carry out experiments to test possible reasons for adding salt when cooking vegetables.
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Elements Top Trumps
You can use the Top Trumps TM as a fun way to introduce the elements in the periodic table. In the game, players compare numerical properties of the elements. Each of the 30 cards represents an element, and has has data on the element’s melting point, density, price, discovery ...
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The life of water
Get hands on with H 2 O, changing states of matter and the water cycle. These experiments and investigations involve water in the context of space. Video: Water in space and the Earth Video: Solids, liquids and gases of water ...
