All Higher-order thinking and metacognition articles – Page 2
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NewsUsing chemistry articles to promote scientific literacy in the classroom
Research shows how context supports student understanding
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Feature
Knowing words’ origins helps students unravel chemistry
Teach the origins of chemical vocabulary
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Chemistry Olympiad past papers
Past papers from the UK Chemistry Olympiad. Includes test papers, mark schemes and examiners’ reports
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Ideas
Constructive conversations with talk triplets
How to teach chemistry through classroom dialogue
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Help students evaluate experiments
Tips to get all students suggesting improvements to practicals
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Easy ways to include philosophical thinking in lessons
Develop students’ scientific literacy, curiosity and open-mindedness
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Opinion
Why I teach chemistry as a creative discipline
Chemistry needs creative approaches and it is possible to teach them
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What’s in a question?
When it comes to challenging your students, are you asking the right questions?
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Rating rate laws
How to help students gain a deeper understanding of mathematical model-building
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Scaffolding explanations
This resource is designed to provide strategies for dealing with some of the misconceptions that students have in the form of ready-to-use classroom resources.
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Designing an organic synthesis
View a summary of how to approach the synthesis of an organic compound, focussing on the construction of key bonds. Follow an example multistep synthesis using standard organic transformations, answering questions along the way. This page is suitable for students beginning organic chemistry. Designing an organic synthesis This ...
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Opinion
The 7 skills of a good A-level chemist
Kristy Turner looks at how to help students improve their core chemistry skills
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Waste to wealth videos: Brian Handy
This resource forms part of a collection of videos that aims to provide undergraduate students with insights into what it is like to work in the nuclear industry. In these videos Brian Handy explains what it is like to work in the nuclear industry. He describes some of the challenges, ...
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Waste to wealth videos: Martin Freer
This resource forms part of a collection of videos that aims to provide undergraduate students with insights into what it is like to work in the nuclear industry. In these videos Martin Freer explains what it is like to work in the nuclear industry. He describes some of the issues ...
