All RSC Education articles in January 2008
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NewsRolls-Royce science prize
Science teachers working in schools and colleges in the UK and Ireland are invited to enter the Rolls-Royce Science Prize 2008/09
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NewsUsing the internet in science teaching
Research shows that student teachers in the UK remain sceptical about the value added to students' learning by using the Internet in science lessons
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NewsHigher-order thinking
According to researchers in Israel, teachers who encourage higher-order thinking skills with their classes are likely to improve students' attitudes to learning
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OpinionMarsh gas, or hydrocarbons on the heath
Peter Borrows takes us on another excursion into local chemistry
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NewsFuelling the future - on tour
Following the success of its Chemistry Week UK roadshow in 2005 the Royal Society of Chemistry this year ran a national tour
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FeatureHalogenating enzymes in organic synthesis
The use of haloperoxidases, from seaweed, in organic syntheses is simple and cost-effective and offers more environmentally-friendly routes to a host of compounds
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ReviewMore video resources, the RSC and CLEAPSS
Web watch: Tony Tooth looks at some websites that may be of interest to chemistry teachers
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NewsChemNet's first year
2007 saw some 2000 students join ChemNet, the RSC's network for students aged 16-18 studying chemistry in school and further education
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NewsChemNet goes nanotech
ChemNet members do nanoscale science at a series of Chemistry Week workshops held in the SchoolsLab at the University of Liverpool
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NewsNobel chemistry rises to the surface
Gerhard Ertl of the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, Germany, received the 2007 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his pioneering studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces
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NewsRedox chemistry on a giant scale
Students from John Leggott Sixth Form College in Scunthorpe see redox chemistry on a giant scale at Corus steelworks during Chemistry Week
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NewsChemistry in the limelight
Blundell's School chemistry demonstration spectacular wows pupils from local primary school
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NewsChemistry giant INEOS supports Olympiad
INEOS, the world's third-largest producer of chemicals, donates £250,000 to the RSC to support the UK Chemistry Olympiad competition for UK sixthform students
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NewsChemical connections
A humble pot of hair gel provided a useful prop for a chemistry lesson with a difference at Glasgow Science Centre during Chemistry Week
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Exhibition chemistryExplosive nitrated carbon compounds
Demonstrations designed to capture the student's imagination
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NewsHollywood science - call for film and TV clips
Dr Jonathan Hare, star of BBC TV's Hollywood science series, wants to investigate the truth behind the science in your favourite film clips