All Group work articles – Page 3
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ResourcePower for the world
A link to Practical Action’s power for the world activity and its related resources, where students are tasked with looking at renewable energy solutions, and designing and building their own wind turbines.
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ResourceFloating garden challenge
Design and build a model structure with Practical Action’s floating garden challenge
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ResourceBeat the flood challenge
Links to Practical Action’s beat the flood challenge, including the teacher and student materials, beat the flood poster, competition winners and schools’ experiences of the challenge. Video: Beat the flood
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ReviewMolecules – a chemistry card game
Kristy reviews a chemistry card game that's educational and fun
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ResourceMeasurement, accuracy and precision
Activities for students which help them discover the importance and difficulties of accurate experimentation
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ResourceA sticky situation
Use this context-based learning module, based around the chemistry of lubricants, with undergraduate students
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ResourceIon-exchange resin and water
Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of a selection of resins and decide which one(s) would be best for producing pure water from seawater on a life raft.
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ResourceIdentifying six unknown solutions
Devise experiments to label six numbered solutions correctly using chemicals and apparatus in the laboratory.
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ResourceChemical and physical properties of pheromones
Help learner’s to understand what pheromones are, and how they are used by animals such as moths.
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ResourceThe thickness of titanium atoms in paint
Discover the thickness of a film of paint, estimating how thick it is by titanium atoms/ions.
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ResourceOn the acid trail: discovering a 'weak' acid
Using titration and plot pH against volume to discover more about a weak, monoprotic acid.
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ResourceMaking copper
Learners develop their own scientific methods to make copper metal starting from copper(II) nitrate crystals.
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ResourceThe best catalyst to decompose hydrogen peroxide
Develop learner’s ideas of catalysis with this open-ended problem using hydrogen peroxide.
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ResourceJets of liquids: the effect of charged plastic on water
Polar covalent bonds, and their affects on water are explored in this open-ended problem.
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ResourceHelping an industrial chemist
Devise a method for making a copper catalyst dispersed on an aluminium oxide support.
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ResourceIdentifying three unknown white solids
Devise experiments to label three white solids correctly by using chemicals and apparatus in the laboratory.
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ResourceAmino acids and hair growth
Discover how quickly human hair grows, and develop learner’s understanding of amino acids too.
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ResourceWhat compound? Identify and analyse
Learners can devise their own testing system to identify the nature of a mystery compound.
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