All Microscale articles
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IdeasTake a microscale approach to electrochemical cells
How you can use Petri dish galvanic cells to support learning about electricity
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Opinion
Maximise learning with microscale
Find out why and how a small-scale approach to practical work reaps big rewards in your classroom
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Review
Understanding chemistry through microscale practical work, Bob Worley and David Paterson
Ready to take the small-scale approach into your chemistry classroom? You might want to read this comprehensive guide first
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Ideas
The fast guide to microscale practical work
Every chemistry teacher’s must-have guide to this no-fuss method for practical work
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Ideas
Escape the classroom: and try microscale chemistry
Escape room puzzles based on simple microscale reactions for students
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Ideas
Teaching chemical changes (at Halloween)
Turn your younger students into wizards at chemistry with these simple practical ideas
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Resource
Microscale neutralisation and precipitation reactions
Hone your students’ observation skills by asking them to observe two microscale reactions: neutralising citric acid and creating a lead iodide precipitate
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CPD
Teaching observation skills at 11–14
Observation is a key skill for budding chemists. This is how to develop it with your younger students
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RSC News
Entries open for International Symposium on Microscale Chemistry 2021
Submit your presentation or poster to the online microscale conference by 1 July
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Feature
Make learning chemistry child’s play
Does play have a role in science learning for older children? This is how to bring more creativity to older students’ learning and why it’s important
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Resource
Microscale technicians in trouble! investigation
Some solutions have been mixed up – help the technicians work out which is which
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Q&A
Classroom questions: advice for new teachers
Experts answer questions about planning, pandemics and practicals from trainee, newly qualified and early career teachers
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Ideas
How to use a visualiser for successful lessons
From zooming in on chemical phenomena to explaining marking schemes, try these teacher-tested approaches
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CPD
Displacement reactions
Activities, tips and ideas to help students get to grips with the reactivity series
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Ideas
Gif me your best teaching ideas
Making videos of microscale experiments is easy and draws students’ attention to key concepts
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Resource
Apparatus and techniques for microscale chemistry
Find out what apparatus you need for common microscale experiments, learn about key techniques and discover how to prepare solutions of different elements.
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Feature
Making practical work more effective
Microscale chemistry and well-ordered teaching sequences reduce cognitive overload
