All Literacy articles – Page 6

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New chemist article

This book can be used to address aspects of communication skills, or can be run as a complete module. This section focuses on writing a concise report.

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Poster presentations

This book can be used to address aspects of communication skills, or can be run as a complete module. This section focuses on poster presentations.

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Dictionary of interesting chemistry

This book can address aspects of communication skills, or can be run as a complete module. This section focuses on information retrieval/report writing.

Ideas

Student blogs

2015-02-17T08:24:00Z

Peter Banks explains why his students create chemistry blogs

Opinion

Using video for lab reports

2015-02-10T11:15:00Z

Michael Seery discusses how creating videos in the lab can improve students' practical skills

Review

Teach now! Science

2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The joy of teaching science

Review

100% organic

2014-11-20T00:00:00Z

Organic chemistry: structure, mechanism and synthesis

Maths

Measuring 3D distances

2014-11-20T00:00:00Z

Paul Yates explains how coordinate geometry falls into place

Review

Supporting leaders

2014-11-20T00:00:00Z

Science leaders’ survival guide

Review

BTEC skills

2014-11-12T00:00:00Z

Science BTEC, applied and vocational courses: key skills & knowledge booster

Opinion

The beauty of language in chemistry

2014-07-04T09:39:00Z

In chemistry we are blessed with a rich text with words influenced by languages from across the world. What are your favourite words and phrases in chemistry?

Opinion

Learning to write about chemistry

2014-05-26T13:04:00Z

How might we include meaningful writing assignments in our curriculum?

Ideas

Student posters on chemistry topics

2014-03-03T11:59:00Z

This post discusses the use of student generated posters and includes a video guide for students on how to prepare posters

Resource

Pollutant detection and remediation

In association with The National HE STEM Programme

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.

Lesson plan

Determining the structure of compounds | 16–18 years

Examine data relating to the structure and complexity of compounds, including mass, infrared and ¹H NMR spectra