All Misconceptions articles
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NewsHow to banish misconceptions with a green chemistry curriculum
Evidence-informed tips on how a greener approach can improve problem-solving abilities and address misconceptions
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CPDEverything you need to teach atomic structure and periodicity at post-16
Top tips and teaching ideas to help your students get to grips with the periodic table and its trends
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NewsOvercoming electrochemistry misconceptions
Use evidence-based research and teacher-tested tips to help your students master this challenging topic
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CPDHow to teach reversible reactions and equilibrium at 14–16
Use these tips and teaching ideas to secure student understanding when teaching this tricky topic
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ResourceStudents’ difficulties with stoichiometry | Beyond appearances
Go beyond apperances and clarify the difficulties that students have around “the mole concept”.
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ResourceStudents’ thinking about acids, bases and neutralisation | Beyond appearances
Move beyond appearances and support learners to identify the key misconceptions around acids and bases among secondary aged students.
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ResourceStudents’ ideas about chemical bonding | Beyond appearances
Move beyond appearances to develop students ideas around chemical bonding
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ResourceStudents’ ideas about thermodynamics | Beyond appearances
Go beyond appearances and help learner to understand the thermodynamic reaction from chemical bonds.
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ResourceDiscussion | Beyond appearances
Engage in the discussion around going beyond appearances and think about your own approach to the chemical world.
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ResourceStudents’ ideas about open system chemical events | Beyond appearances
Go beyond appearances to explore open system chemical events, and the key difficulties students have with them.
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ResourceStudents’ ideas about chemical equilibria | Beyond appearances
Go beyond appearances to help support students ideas around chemical equilibria
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ResourceIntroducing “chemical reactions” | Beyond appearances
Move beyond appearances and introduce chemical reactions to learners, helping them to distinguish between chemical change, and change of state.
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ResourceStudents’ ideas about the differences between elements, compounds and mixtures | Beyond appearances
Differences between elements, compounds and mixtures form the basis for understanding chemical reactions, explore how students gain these ideas.
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ResourceStudents’ ideas about specific chemical events: closed system reactions | Beyond appearances
Move beyond appearances to understand the relative densities of matter and particle theory.
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ResourceStudents’ ideas about changes of state | Beyond appearances
Changes in state need changes in thinking to be understood, explore how to support learners to develop a new way of seeing state changes
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ResourceStudents’ ideas about the particulate nature of matter | Beyond appearances
Move beyond appearances to discover how young learners form ideas about the particulate nature of matter.
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ResourceStates of matter | Beyond appearances
Go beyond appearances, and discover the way in which children understand the states of matter.
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ResourceElectrochemical cells misconception buster | 16–18 years
Probe learners’ knowledge of setting up electrochemical cells, redox equations and calculations
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IdeasBanish misconceptions with digital whiteboards
A quick, low-stakes way to see what students are thinking, with everything from 3D molecule modelling to organic chemistry
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IdeasHarness the power of video to dispel misconceptions
A creative solution to reveal and resolve confusion about displacement reactions