All Materials articles – Page 3
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Resource
Properties of polymers
A lesson presentation with activities for your 11–14 students on polymers and their properties
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CPD
How to teach materials at 11–14
Use real life examples to help students get to grips with the properties of ceramics, polymers and composites
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Liquefying paint – retrieval practice and quick-fire questions
Encourage your 16–18 students to make connections between topics with this scaffolded approach
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Finding a greener concrete
Use these differentiated, synpoptic worksheets to assess students’ recall of the properties and uses of materials
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Feature
Concrete solutions to sustainable materials
Enhance your teaching of materials and explore how new types of concrete could reduce carbon emissions
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Interview
‘A material that could heal itself was the coolest thing I’d ever heard’
Meet Annela Seddon, a research scientist who designs materials able to self-fold on demand for biomedical applications
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Experiment
Red cabbage rainbows
In this activity, learners create rainbows using homemade red cabbage indicator paper. Includes video aimed at learners, kit list, instruction and explanation
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Ideas
Learning at home for 14–16
Keep your 14–16 classes learning remotely with these curriculum-relevant resources and activities
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Ideas
Learning at home for 11–14
A selection of curriculum-relevant resources and activities to use remotely with your 11–14 classes
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Ideas
Escape the classroom: and reveal the properties of materials
Escape room puzzles to introduce students to materials properties
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Feature
Temperature-controlling textiles
Nina Notman gets a feel for the high-tech fabrics that can help us maintain our preferred temperature
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Resource
Insulation investigation
Which material makes the warmest jacket? Investigate the insulating properties of various materials with this activity for ages 7–14
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Interview
‘I want to leave the world in a better state than when I entered it’
Meet Omar Farha, a materials chemist who designs highly porous materials for applications ranging from gas storage to the destruction of nerve agents
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Soundbite
Poo sticks … and how to stop it
How science is saving water and time spent cleaning the loo
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News
2D synthetic clay sheets could create easy to recycle crisp packets
Inorganic nanosheets could lower the carbon footprint of food packaging
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Feature
Why you need A-level chemistry to study dentistry
Understanding enamel, fillings and anaesthetics requires chemistry knowledge
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News
Carbon nanotubes grown using kitchen chemicals
Cheap compounds found in kitchen cupboards can act as catalysts for making carbon nanotubes