All Misconceptions articles – Page 2
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Feature
Uncover your students' preconceptions
Understanding their existing ideas helps avoid misconceptions
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Ideas
Avoid the pitfalls of language
Help students learn the difference between everyday and chemistry vocabulary
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News
Probing difficulties with quantum atomic models
What you can do to make grasping atomic representations easier
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CPD
States of matter and particle theory
Progressing from macroscopic to the microscopic world of the particle
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Molecular model misconceptions
Let us take a closer look at the suitability of using molecular models to teach the determination of chemical formulae.
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Ideas
How to make effective interventions
Try a pinchpoint approach to diagnose and address the reasons for learners’ mistakes in school science
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Resource
Chemical comparisons
This resource is designed to provide strategies for dealing with some of the misconceptions that students have in the form of ready-to-use classroom resources.
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Opinion
How I tackled misconceptions
Education research inspired me to improve my scheme of work for structure and bonding
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Concepts in chemistry
This resource includes information about some key misconceptions that have been uncovered by research and ideas about a variety of teaching approaches that may help avoid students acquiring some common misconceptions.
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Scaffolding explanations
This resource is designed to provide strategies for dealing with some of the misconceptions that students have in the form of ready-to-use classroom resources.
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Elements, compounds and mixtures
Chemistry is a conceptual subject and, in order to explain many of these concepts, teachers use models to describe and explain the microscopic world and relate it to the macroscopic properties of matter. This resource is designed to provide strategies for dealing with some of the misconceptions that students have ...
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Acid strength
This resource is designed to provide strategies for dealing with some of the misconceptions that students have in the form of ready-to-use classroom resources.
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Ionisation energy
This resource is designed to provide strategies for dealing with some of the misconceptions that students have in the form of ready-to-use classroom resources.
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Precipitation
Chemistry is a conceptual subject and, in order to explain many of these concepts, teachers use models to describe and explain the microscopic world and relate it to the macroscopic properties of matter. This resource is designed to provide strategies for dealing with some of the misconceptions that students have ...
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Iron - a metal
Chemistry is a conceptual subject and, in order to explain many of these concepts, teachers use models to describe and explain the microscopic world and relate it to the macroscopic properties of matter. This resource is designed to provide strategies for dealing with some of the misconceptions that students have ...
