All Literacy articles – Page 2
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Effective reading strategies for the chemistry classroom
Try these simple, teacher-tested approaches to build your students’ literacy skills
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Fossil fuels and global carbon emissions | 14–16 years
Classroom activity where learners explore and debate the issues around fossil fuels, energy and global carbon emissions
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3 ways to improve your explanations
From examples and non-examples to definitions, tips to communicate new ideas and concepts effectively
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Separating caffeine | 11–14 years
DART (Directed Activity Related to Text) covering separation techniques, including dissolution, distillation and filtration. Decaffeination provides a great context to add depth to a sequence of lessons on separation techniques.
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Decaffeination – how does it work?
Organic solvent, supercritical carbon dioxide or water? A knowledge of solvents and solutions is essential for removing caffeine from your daily cuppa
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Activities for developing key secondary school chemistry skills remotely
Ready-to-go ideas and resources for developing your students’ key skills while home learning, including interpreting graphs and writing about practicals
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The real prize of entering STEM competitions
Both you and your students can gain a lot from participating in science competitions besides winning
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How to teach reading in science
Worried your students struggle with chemistry texts? You're not alone. Here are two solutions
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Strategies to succeed in post-16 courses
Passing exams at 18 requires specific skills and strategies. Here’s how to support students to develop them
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Plant-based plastics | 11–14 years
Put chemistry into context and encourage your 11–14 students to use their critical thinking skills with these classroom activities
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Encourage pupils to examine the evidence
How to structure lessons to get your students to look at ‘the science’ and pick out supporting reasons
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Can UV light help tackle the coronavirus?
Engage students with some highly topical cross-curricular science
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How is UV light used as a disinfectant?
Boost students’ literacy skills with some engaging cross-curricular science
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Learning at home for 14–16
Keep your 14–16 classes learning remotely with these curriculum-relevant resources and activities
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Help students understand scientific vocabulary
Help your students with these solutions for murky science language
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Secure students’ understanding of scientific vocabulary
Banish misconceptions and build a foundation of understanding for science terminology with the Frayer model template
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Supporting diverse learners
How to boost students’ acquisition of technical language in the science classroom
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Why you need to teach literacy to teach dist-ill-a-tion
Students need to learn the language of science to make progress in chemistry
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