All Group work articles – Page 3

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Chemistry's interfaces: nutrition

In association with The National HE STEM Programme

This C/PBL resource is an introduction to some of the most important aspects of chemical biology. Its introduces students to a number of important chemical structures which play major biological roles within human metabolism.
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Wind power challenge

2016-12-12T13:37:00Z In association with Practical Action

A link to Practical Action’s wind power challenge and its related resources, where students are tasked with designing and testing a wind power machine that is cable of lifting weighted objects,
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The squashed tomato challenge

2016-12-12T13:36:00Z In association with Practical Action

Students design, build and test a method of transporting tomatoes
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Small is... challenge

2016-12-12T13:33:00Z In association with Practical Action

A link to Practical Action’s ‘small is… challenge’ and its related resources, where students are tasked with analysing technology from the last hundred years, and to invent a product that could help achieve a sustainable future.
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Power for the world

2016-12-12T13:31:00Z In association with Practical Action

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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Floating garden challenge

2016-12-12T13:27:00Z In association with Practical Action

Design and build a model structure with Practical Action’s floating garden challenge
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Beat the flood challenge

2016-12-12T13:24:00Z In association with Practical Action

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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Gravestones

Investigation into the weathering of different types of rock.
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Molecules – a chemistry card game

2016-09-02T00:00:00Z

Kristy reviews a chemistry card game that's educational and fun
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Measurement, accuracy and precision

2016-08-10T11:43:00Z

Activities for students which help them discover the importance and difficulties of accurate experimentation
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A sticky situation

Use this context-based learning module, based around the chemistry of lubricants, with undergraduate students
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Ion-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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Identifying six unknown solutions

Devise experiments to label six numbered solutions correctly using chemicals and apparatus in the laboratory.
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Chemical 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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The 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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On 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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Making copper

Learners develop their own scientific methods to make copper metal starting from copper(II) nitrate crystals.
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The best catalyst to decompose hydrogen peroxide

Develop learner’s ideas of catalysis with this open-ended problem using hydrogen peroxide.
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Jets 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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Helping an industrial chemist

Devise a method for making a copper catalyst dispersed on an aluminium oxide support.