All Higher-order thinking and metacognition articles – Page 4
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Ideas
Help students evaluate experiments
Tips to get all students suggesting improvements to practicals
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Ideas
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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News
What’s in a question?
When it comes to challenging your students, are you asking the right questions?
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News
Rating rate laws
How to help students gain a deeper understanding of mathematical model-building
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Resource
Chemical misconceptions II: Scaffolding explanations
The materials comprise of two sets of questions requiring explanations - which may be used as a pre-test and post-test a worksheet.
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Resource
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 page is ...
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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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Resource
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, including ...
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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 in ...
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Feature
Chemistry and music
Peter Banks explains how musical ability can help students get a better grasp of chemistry