All Group work articles – Page 5
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ResourceCommercial Skills: Market Research
This module asks teams of students to estimate the market value of a number of potential projects with a chemical background.
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ResourceCommercial Skills: Innovation
This module asks teams of students to evaluate a number of potential projects, with a chemical background, and identify why they might be of potential value.
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ResourceCommercial Skills: Introduction & Overview
This is an introduction and overview to five Commerical Skills Modules for Chemists. It includes a briefing for students, presentation video, an overview guide and presentation for tutors and market research on employer needs.
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ExperimentMaking glue from milk
Try this class practical to prepare a polymer glue from milk using the protein casein. Includes kit list and safety instructions.
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ResourceOdd one out
This activity is fairly synoptic in nature and should encourage a rapid consideration of the range of concepts met in chemistry taught to ages 11–13.
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ResourceScientific papers
This book can be used to address aspects of communication skills, or can be run as a complete module. This section focuses on comprehension and problem solving.
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ResourceInterviews and interviewing
This book can be used to address aspects of communication skills, or can be run as a complete module. This section focuses on interview skills.
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ResourceOnly dust - is there a sign of life?
Discover the link between organic life, and dust, designing an experiment of your own from junk materials. Includes kit list and safety instructions.
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ResourceGas volume
Calculate the gas volume created through the reaction of metals with acids. Includes kit list and safety instructions.
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ResourceAs sweet as? Detecting aspartame in a table-top sweetener
Use hydrolysis and chromatography to find aspartame in your table-top sweetener. Includes kit list and safety instructions.
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ResourceSciStarter - citizen science database
The SciStarter website is the place to find, join, and contribute to science through recreational activities and citizen science research projects. Search and browse for your favourite now.
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ResourcePublic Lab - a DIY environmental public science community
Public Lab is a DIY environmental public science community. You can purchase inexpensive kit - such as a build your own spectrometer.
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ResourceAtmospheric monitoring kits (DIY)
Using the equipment you can build your own atmospheric monitoring station, record and see data from local temperature to nitrogen dioxide levels.
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ResourceInvention of nylon
Nylon is one of the strongest polymers created by man. What makes it so durable?
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ResourceLeaded and unleaded petrol
In USA in the 1970s, 200,000 tonnes of lead was added to petrol every year. Now leaded petrol for cars is banned. Discover the dangers of tetraethyl lead in petrol.
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ResourceRecycling plastics
Video exploring the differences between thermosetting, thermosoftening and partially biodegradable plastics
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ResourcePlastics and polymers
Plastics are all made in a similar way, but can be manipulated to have very different functions. Discover how their properties are determined.
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ResourceHydrocarbons factpack
An introduction to hydrocarbons. Learn how unreactive alkanes can be made into reactive alkenes.
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ResourcePollutant detection and remediation
Case-study involving the development of adsorption and photocatalysis experiments to study the removal of a pollutant from waste-water. This resource and its components are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.